Music
Arthur Oskan The Juno nominated techno producer plays his last local show before the awards tonight at Li’ly. See listing.
Loving In The Name Of The oddball live-band-karaoke party celebrates four years tonight at the Great Hall, with special guests Sebastien Grainger, Bry Webb, Daniela Gesungheit and more. See listing.
Movies
Payback Jennifer Baichwal (Manufactured Landscapes) adapts Margaret Atwood’s non-fiction book about debt into a thoughtful, visually compelling documentary that focuses on four stories. See review and interview with Baichwal and Atwood.
21 Jump Street Who knew that the week’s best-reviewed studio movie would be an adaptation of a cheesy late 1980s TV series? See review of the terrific comedy here.
Stage
Danny Bhoy The Indian-Scottish stand-up sensation brings his Wanderlust tour to Massey Hall tonight for one show. See Q & A with Bhoy.
The Diary Of Anne Frank This production of Wendy Kesselman’s adaptation of the real-life story about a Jewish girl and her family who hide from the Nazis returns. At the Al Green Theatre until Mar 24. See listing.
Community
Pre-budget Rally With the Ontario budget due March 27, a roster of community groups take issue with the Drummond report’s focus on restraint. Orgs including OCAP, Ontario Nurses Association, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario and Ontario Council of Hospital Unions host a march to call for affordable housing, a rise in social assistance rates, better services and more. Noon. Free. Meet in front of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. See listing.
Art
Elle Flanders and Tamara Sawatzky The Toronto artists, whose video installation Road Movie earned the top spot on our best art shows of 2011, open Road Shots, a series of photographs made at the same time they were working on Road Movie, documenting the segregated road system of the West Bank. Islamic patterns made with Autocad software are “engraved” onto the images. Reception tonight, artists’ talk tomorrow, at O’Born Contemporary. See listing.
