Movies
John Carter Okay, it didn’t perform very well at the box office last weekend, but give this adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s story a try. See review and interview with Canadian star Taylor Kitsch.
Stage
Winston Spear The quirky stand-up comic with a penchant for breaking out into dance begins a week of headlining sets at Yuk Yuk’s Downtown. See listing.
New Ideas Festival The Alumnae Theatre kicks off its two-week-long festival of new writing and works-in-progress. See listing.
Music
The Black Keys The garage blues duo are headlining the Air Canada Centre tonight, which is a feat that would’ve sounded insane just a few years ago. See listing.
Art
Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak The U.S./Japan-based curator gives a talk entitled For Nature Or Against Nature: The Western Reception Of Contemporary Japanese Art, focusing on the watershed period of the 1980s when a new generation of Japanese artists captured international attention. At the Japan Foundation. See listing.
