Movies
Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits The Royal Cinema screens Robert Lang’s documentary about opium, heroin addiction and the war on drugs. See review.
Stage
The Post Office Rabindranath Tagore’s play about a sick boy in India who changes people’s lives gets an elegant, magical production. Continues at the Berkeley Street Theatre until June 4. See review.
Wade McElwain The terrific Canadian stand-up, now based in the UK, returns to Yuk Yuk’s Downtown for a week of headlining sets. To May 28. See listing.
Music
Bare The L.A. dubstep producer specializes in the kind of face-melting wobble bass riffs and aggressive drum programming that’s sure to make the Wednesday night crowd at Wrongbar’s weekly Bassmentality party go insane. See listing.
Community
What’s Happening in the Middle East? Academic Monia Mazigh, author of Hope and Despair: My struggle to free my husband Maher Arar, offers her take on the Arab Spring which began in her country of origin, Tunisia. Mazigh, who made headlines campaigning for Arar during his shocking detention and torture in Syria is being hosted by Science for Peace, and the event is a fundraising dinner. 7 pm. $60. Hot House Café, 35 Church. See listing.
Books
Emma Ruby-Sachs/Howard Norman/Kyran Pittman Howard Norman reads from What Is Left The Daughter, Pittman reads from Planting Dandelions, Ruby-Sachs reads from The Water Man’s Daughter at Harbourfront. See listing and a review of Ruby-Sachs’s novel.
Stranger Than Fiction Non-fiction writers, including Marni Jackson and Wayne Grady, celebrate the Creative Non-fiction Collective with a cabaret at Harbord House Gastro Pub. See listing.
Art
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle The Madrid-born, Chicago-based artist talks about his work, which comments on modernism, migration and the war on terror. His Phantom Truck installation, evoking in a darkened room the spectre of Saddam’s mobile biological weapons lab as described by Colin Powell, and Always After, a video of broken glass from a Mies van der Rohe building, are currently on view at the Power Plant. See listing.
