Join Benjamin “The Sign Guy” Jackson, Danny Filippone & myself at @blackbondbooks.bsky.social in Ladner today December 21st at noon. We’ll be signing copies of the nee bestseller A Sign of The Times: The Best of the Penthouse Marquee!

It’d be nice in the wake of these Trump comments on Rob Reiner, that #FIFA revoked Trunp’s Peace Prize.

Tune into CBC Radio one at 8:20am. I’ll be on the Early Edition with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social talking about the closure of #HastingsRaxecourse. www.facebook.com/share/p/17be...

WATCH: Ben Jackson, @theaaronchapman.bsky.social, and Danny Filippone talk about their new book, A Sign of the Times: the Best of the Penthouse Marquee. #NewsRadioBookshelf @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social @anvilpress.bsky.social youtu.be/8lOUWZ-khe4?...

They men they couldn't hang. A hand raised up that way never took the future in its palm. open.spotify.com/track/0HAEFZ...

#MusicChallenge 🎶 #1985AlbumsTop20 1985 favourite albums ✨12✨ The Men They Couldn't Hang - Night Of A Thousand Candles youtu.be/_jnA3N-gGy8?... Ironmasters Their debut album, released in July 1985. #WMIM #music #musicsky #80s

From the @thebulwark.com , @timmiller.bsky.social does an appropriate address on Scott Jennings—the heel on @cnn.com youtu.be/x8ld6AqpE1o?...

The Christmas gift for all your Barfly friends… and a lilttle humour to go with your city history! Coming to bookstores everywhere in BC this month- A Sign of The Times: The Best of The Penthouse Marquee—publisher by @anvilpress.bsky.social! #VancouverBC

An interesting article about the present & future of the Penthouse nightclub in the @georgiastraight.bsky.social But the party isn’t over yet. A word on the new book, A Sign of The Times and Danny’s induction to the @starwalk.bc.com #Vancouver www.straight.com/city-culture...

oops I meant a very excited person, but then I already that. I was also very excited! And it was so nice to meet @lucymaloney.bsky.social, and see @theaaronchapman.bsky.social who also won a Heritage Award for his book, Vancouver After Dark (pictured here with Danny Filippone from The Penthouse)

I only wish #Rush would have picked a Trans woman to outrage old Conservative fans of the group further.

Working on this long term Vancouver restaurant history project, I stumbled across one of a few of our Chopstick recycling stations tucked away in the Harbour Centre mall. They turn the chopsticks into new wood flooring, which I imagine are so good you could eat off them.

Just looking at the calendar at the @foxcabaret.bsky.social on Saturday Sept 27th —quite a mashup that evening apparently: “It’s going to be a bumpy night, m’fuckah…”

Some great words & people found at @wordvancouver.bsky.social Great to meet Gary Jones who hosted @wongski.bsky.social & I on our books about #Vancouver music and venues. …And honoured to moderate a discussion w/ #scottalexanderhoward & @jensookfonglee.bsky.social on their new books!

Blue skies + Literature? Heck yeah!

I feel rather honoured to be echoi’ing on the streets of Montreal before the Pogues show there tonight!

Tune into @globalnews.ca BC tonight at the end of the news hour with #SquireBarnes—we’ll be talking about some #VancouverHistory in years past and the #westend crime history tours I did this summer in connection with my book #VancouverVice. You’ll be fascknated!

Amazing Blood Moon tonight. The world may be a tough place out there these days but one can still comfort oneself in nature’s wonder.

I’m off to the west side and Old Hastings Mill Museum— where we used to joke as Kerrisdale kids, that East Vancouver began at Alma Street!

Vancouver's Old Hastings Mill Museum to host a talk on the city's restaurants, past and present, this weekend. @theaaronchapman.bsky.social vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/09/05/v...

For you Stones fans.

I don’t think Giuliani wants a Presidential Medal of Freedom. He want’s a check to pay his bills.

From @robertyoungpelton.bsky.social “we used to call this Cream of Mushroom Thighs”.

Vancouver friends - i’m hosting a West End Crime History walking tour Saturday August 30th. We cover still unsolved homicides, the era of “Hookers on Davie”, illegal gambling, pornography raids, & some largely forgotten incidents like the West End sniper. Visit forbiddenvancouver.ca/vancouver-vi...

Maybe there’s still Hope?

New exhibit at the Smithsonian.

I have a small overstock of copies of #TheLastGanginTownBook to sell: $25 apiece & it comes with a free poster signed by Danny “Mouse” Williamson & Bradley Bennett from the Clark Park Gang. I’ll sign too if you want me to. Pick one more of my books and we’ll call it $40 even. #VancouverHistory

I showed this to a person in their early 20s, and they had no idea whatsoever what it was. I told them it was something that used to be called a “marital aid” back in the day, and thought i’d just leave it at that. They were even more confused.

The Scots might have minced pies, but they’ve never minced words.

Thanks to a bit of a fruit-fly outbreak at the Chapman Estates this weekend, I’m re-reading I Caught Flies for Howard Hughes—one of the odder tell-all’s that appeared after Hughes’ death. The task/book requires some chemical weapons backup & home made flytraps to fully enjoy.

5 music videos you (probably) didn't know featured Vancouver

He likes hot dogs.

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

I went by myself to catch the late screening of @28yearslater.bsky.social tonight in #VancouverBC. When I walked out of the cinema at midnight, I thought I’d walked into the film. All of Burrard Street from the bridge to Broadway completely empty. No cars. No people! Not a living soul around!

With no pennies in Canada, and times tight. Nobody is throwing nickels and dimes into fountains in #Vancouver. Either that, or people are scooping them up to pay the rent.

My @nufctrust.bsky.social “Bag for Life” I bought at St. James Park in 2017 has seen better days. Still ten years is a good run. I guess it’s high time I toss it, get a new one, or pursue litigation against Mike Ashley for False Advertising.

Remember it’s pronounced Zed not Zee. Happy Canada Day, my friends.

I know some people who grew up always wanting to anger and disappoint their parents. They got into rock and roll. Others went to Arts School or joined the army. They’ve got nothing on Jack Letts. youtu.be/HmXad5lnE_Q?...

Forbidden Vancouver is known for its award-winning, themed, guided local tours, and once a year they host The Last Gang in Town Tour in East Van hosted by @theaaronchapman.bsky.social 🎟️ I have tickets to give away:

In Port Moody this morning to meet Peter Smith—a longtime Canadian film veteran whose Asst Camera credits go back to Little Big Man, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller—a film I have a rather personal connection to. I spoke with him about the late #Vancouver photog Toby Rankin Great to chat. Thank you Peter.

I'm glad the LA Kings didn't make the Stanley Cup finals, because today would be awkward.

Are people who wear Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s ball caps and who don’t fish the New Posers?

I have some #VancouverHistory walking tours based on my #Vancouver books #TheLastGanginTown, #LiquorLustandTheLaw & #VancouverVice coming up. I invite you to join me East Van, Seymour Street & the West End for some city stories you have never heard. forbiddenvancouver.ca/special-events…

I have some #VancouverHistory walking tours based on my #Vancouver books #TheLastGanginTown, #LiquorLustandTheLaw & #VancouverVice coming up. I invite you to join me East Van, Seymour Street & the West End for some city stories you have never heard. forbiddenvancouver.ca/special-events…

But that being said. Yo musk and Trump, ya got anymore of them tweets?

I’m at the #ToonArmyVancouver supporters gathering for the last @newcastleunited.com match of the #PremierLeague of the season. A good 40 magpie supporters here. But the crowd is a bit quiet after that Everton goal… #grim

Tonight at 10pm Pacific on @sportsnet650.bsky.social of the Chat Room with #JoeLeary, #DannyFilippone & myself With guests #WalterCosman from the #VancouverCanadians plus legendary broadcaster #DavidPratt, music guest Barry Greenfield and a lot more! Tune in!

To some of us Americans, it looks exactly like that too.