A close encounter with Elvis Costello
Freelance journalist. This is where I write about movies, comics, wine, craft beer, cats and other fun stuff.
Author: Shawn Conner
Freelance journalist and author (Vengeance is Mine: The Secret History of Superhero Movies, 2023 from McFarland Books). Publisher/editor of thesnipenews.com.
Who remembers Minutes from Downtown?
Looking back at the Looking for Mr. Goodbar movie In a recent post, I wrote about Judith Rossner‘s Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Reading the 1975 bestseller was…
Weird, wacky and often well-written, the 1973 bestseller-turned-into-a-Diane-Keaton-film was based on a true story.
The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine also featured the World’s Most Gullible Supehero Team, and other things I learned while reading this doorstop.
A request letter from a longtime fan
Periodically, I like to check in on my friend Louise to find out her take on the latest in pop culture news. So when she…
Like myself, Bif Naked was raised in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in the early nineties. Unlike me, she’s been successful. Ba dum tsh! I…
My interview with Todd Rundgren is now posted at the Vancouver Sun. Rundgren plays Vancouver this Saturday April 30, so it’s a preview Q-and-A piece.…
Coming in at nearly 500 pages, A Guide for the Perplexed is enough Werner Herzog for even the most ardent fan of the German (he…
Sherry Kean released a great pop album in 1984. So what happened to the Canadian singer?
George Thorogood Haircut album cover by Peter Bagge Apparently, George Thorogood is not a big fan of Peter Bagge. The alternative comics artist (Hate, Neat…
It’s embarrassing to say now, but I once lost interest in someone when I saw the spine of a Barenaked Ladies CD in her collection.…
Watched Lambert & Stamp last week in anticipation of my interview with the director for hmv.com/ca. If you haven’t heard of it – that is,…
I recently had the opportunity to write about one of my favourite John Prine albums for hmv.com. For me, The Missing Years – Prine’s 10th…
This past week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jen Kirkman for the Vancouver Sun. I couldn’t fit everything into the Q-and-A, so here are…
Swervedriver played the Biltmore Cabaret last night, and this was a show I was determined not to miss – the UK band’s debut Raise is one…
Exploring the Mikkeller bars in Bangkok and San Francisco Get off at Ekkamai Station, find the right soi and then walk north. This will take…
I wound up at an art show. It all started when an artist friend of mine invited me down to San Francisco’s infamous tourist attraction,…
This was my second Dusting Off feature for hmv.com/ca (my first was a loving reassessment of Martha and the Muffins‘ classic album This is the…