Music
Gladstone Hotel 5th anniversary The Gladstone celebrates 5 years since they reinvented the aging building into a happening arts and culture hub with music from the Elizabeth Shepherd Trio, Goin’ Steady DJs and much more. See listing.
Dentata Critically-loved Toronto post-punk band Anagram are joined by up-and-coming sludge rockers Dentata at the Silver Dollar. See listing.
Film
Attenberg Head on over to the Royal Cinema to check out the exclusive run of this fascinating film about a young Greek woman who’s facing her father’s impending death. See review here.
The Illusionist The Triplets Of Belleville’s Sylvain Chomet returns with this quietly melancholy animated pic about an old stage magician and a wide-eyed chambermaid. Opens today. See review here.
Stage
A Maude-Lynne Evening/Redheaded Stepchild Rising theatre stars Morgan Norwich and Johnnie Walker alternate directing and starring in these two comedies about precocious adolescents. If you missed either one at the summer festivals, see them both now. At Buddies in Bad Times until Jan 23. See listing here.
Dance Weekend ’11 Hundreds of dancers perform in this weekend-long showcase of movement of all kinds. At the Fleck Dance Theatre til Jan 23. See listing here.
Books
John Ralston Saul It’s not often you get to hear one of Canada’s best minds for free. So check out Ralston Saul as he talks about his new book Louis-Hipplyte Lafontaine And Robert Brown. at St. James Cathedral. See listing.
Art
Mark Kasumovic In his show In Plain View, local photographer Kasumovic focuses on something that we usually screen out when looking at the landscape: hydro lines. Selections from his series I Can Hear You Humming highlight the wires’ strange linear beauty and contrast with the natural world. At new Junction-area gallery Telephone Booth. See listing.
