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Top 5 things to do in Vancouver tonight: Feb. 11, 2015

Get all about the bass: The cast of Gateway Theatre’s recent production of Crazy For You made a kick-ass lip synch tribute to Meghan Trainor’s number one hit “All About That Bass” that, sadly, was quickly barred from YouTube for copyright infringemen

Get all about the bass: The cast of Gateway Theatre’s recent production of Crazy For You made a kick-ass lip synch tribute to Meghan Trainor’s number one hit “All About That Bass” that, sadly, was quickly barred from YouTube for copyright infringement. But it’s hard to hold it against her. The overnight sensation brings her bubblegum brand of old school doowop along with all the right junk in all the right places to the Vogue starting at 8 p.m. With special guest Sheppard.

Get read to: As part of the free and ongoing Incite reading series at the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library, bestselling Vancouver-based author John Valliant (The Tiger, The Golden Spruce) reads from his first work of fiction, The Jaguar's Children, a survival story involving human smuggling on the Mexican border. Marianne Apostolides will read from her new novel Sophrosyne about a philosophy student’s relationship with his absent mother, while Alix Hawley shares something from All True Not a Lie in It about Daniel Boone's captivity by Native Americans during the Revolutionary War.

Get in front of a TV: The Canucks take on the Chicago Blackhawks in an away game starting at 5 p.m. on Sportsnet. The rivalry may not be the quite same with Bolland and Byfuglien gone and without Luongo (or even Schneider) between the pipes, but we at least still have Duncan Keith to pour well-earned abuse on. In case you’ve forgotten, here he is elbowing Daniel Sedin in the head three years ago and giving him a concussion that ended his regular season and all but three of a losing five-game series against the L.A. Kings.

Get moshing: Cannibal Corpse, who hold the distinction of being the world’s top-selling death metal band, bring their ear-splitting monster mash shtick to the Commodore Ballroom with Polish co-headliners Behemoth. Black T-shirts and devil salutes strongly encouraged.  Pointing out to crowd members that death metal vocalists all sound like Cookie Monster, not so much.

Get pink: Unlike 1970s-era record executives, you won’t need to ask yourself which one’s Pink when multi-instrumentalist Ariel Pink brings his one-man weirdness to the Rickshaw Theatre. Dubbed the most hated man in indie rock and with heavy-hitters such as Grimes and Madonna calling for his head, Mr. Pink is on the road in support of his befuddling new solo album pom pom. Jack Name opens.

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