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Daily Tipsheet: Friday, February 24

Music

Daps Records Revue The hot new local label launches tonight at the Great Hall, with performances by Phèdre, Hooded Fang, Doldrums and more. See listing.

Kingdom The forward-thinking NYC producer/DJ plays the Happy Endings party tonight at Dim Sum King. See listing.

Community

Palestine and the Great Games This meeting explores the possibility that Palestine, despite its powerlessness, may be one of the most powerful players on the world stage. The discussion is being led by Eric Walberg, author of Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Game. 7 pm. $5 min. Beit Zatoun. See listing.

Art

Dorset Now/Adad Hannah Inuit art gallery Feheley Fine Arts has relocated from Yorkville to George Street south of King, sharing the building with Centre Space, an new outpost of Montreal’s Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain. Opening the new location are Dorset Now, drawings by Shuvinai Ashoona, Itee Pootoogook and others, at Feheley, and Unwrapping Rodin by Montreal media artist Hannah, at Centre Space.

Stage

Beckett: Feck It! Queen of Puddings and Canadian Stage collaborate on this unusual tribute to Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, featuring a quartet of his short plays and contemporary songs by Irish composers that capture the melodic and quirky comic nature of his writing. See review and listing.

High Life Catch Soulpepper’s vibrant production of Lee MacDougall’s dark comedy about a foursome of addicts who plan what they think is a foolproof ATM heist. Stuart Hughes directs with just the right mix of laughs and edgy confrontations, and the cast — Diego Matamoros, Michael Hanrahan, Oliver Dennis and Mike Ross — have great ensemble chemistry. See listing.

Movies

Rampart Find out why people are saying Woody Harrelson was robbed when he didn’t got an Oscar nom for his role as a bully cop caught in a scandal in this gritty police story, opening today. For an interview with Harrelson, see here. For a review of Rampart, see here.

Oscar’s Shorts Live Action/Oscar Shorts Animated Conventional wisdom has it that if you nail these categories, the office Oscar pool is yours. Then again, others say that basing your ballot on anything you’ve actually seen is a big mistake. Still, Oscar nominated shorts are always cool – see them today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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