Movies
American: The Bill Hicks Story Director Matt Harlock takes a look at the influential stand-up comic, who died tragically young from pancreatic cancer. Plays all week at the Royal. See Q&A with Harlock.
Chris Alexander’s Film School Confidential In the latest of his twice-a-month series of horror flicks at the Bloor, Alexander presents and introduces a rare screening of Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, Grant Harvey’s sequel to the 2001 satirical shocker. See listing.
Stage
WWSD: What Would Suzuki Do? This benefit at the Bread & Circus marks Earth Day and the environmentalist/journalist David Suzuki’s 75th birthday. See listing.
Forests Playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s been making headlines about the controversial casting of a future play. In the meantime, check out his earlier work about a teenager trying to discover her mother’s fatal illness, now previewing at the Tarragon. See listing.
Music
Jamaica The Daft Punk- and Justice- connected duo tour their new, hit-filled record, No Problem. See listing.See video below.
Femi Kuti Son of the Afrobeat legend Fela, Femi stops into town as his fatherland Nigeria is in electoral turmoil. So expect some politics. See listing.
The Pixies Frank Black and the reunited alt.rock icons play the second night of their two-night stand at Massey Hall. Not the first reunion tour and probably not the last – they’ve been reunited for quite a while – but a chance to see the 90s group neertheless. See listing.
Art
Malena Szlam Montreal-based, Chile-born Szlam presents Cronograma De Un Tiempro Inexiste (Chronogram Of Inexistent Time), a film/video installation that examines the architectural possibilities of ephemeral images. Part of the Off-Screen program of the Images Festival at YYZ. See listing.
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