Movies
Drive This Ryan Gosling vehicle has been getting lots of awards buzz, particularly for director Nicholas Winding Refn and supporting actor Albert Brooks. See review.
Stage
The Maids Buddies in Bad Times’ season opener, a production of the subversive Jean Genet play about power dynamics, is now in previews. See listing.
Music
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks The Pavement frontman is sounding more like his 90s self than ever before, and plays the Phoenix tonight. See listing.
Community
Support Waterfront Toronto’s plan Join CodeBlue TO and other opponents of ditching Waterfront Toronto’s vision of the Port Lands as City Council debates ending the body’s governance over the shoreline development. 9:30. Free. City Council. toronto.ca
Code Pink Co-founder Speaks Medea Benjamin, one of the leaders of the peace and human rights group named as a play on the Bush admin’s color-coded homeland security alerts, speaks on global peace and human rights. But be warned, Benjamin didn’t make it across the border last time, so if a glitch develops, she will offer her take via video. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org
Art
Gary Taxaili The Toronto-based illustrator, who applies his funky, enigmatic, retro imagery to magazine covers, books, limited-edition prints, skateboards and toys, launches two new books, I Love You, OK? and Mono Taxali, with a signing at the AGO. See listing.
