Movies
Moneyball Described by some as this year’s The Social Network, Bennett Miller’s film looks at the Oakland As’ general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who used statistics to help make the modest team a winner. See review.
Stage
His Greatness Don’t miss Daniel MacIvor’s imaginative look at what may have happened to playwright Tennessee Williams in a 1980 Vancouver hotel room, now on at the Factory Studio. See review.
After Mrs. Rochester Polly Teale’s play interweaves the lives of author Jean Rhys and the original wife of Jane Eyre’s Mr. Rochester, whom Rhys wrote about in her novel The Wide Sargasso Sea. On at the Alumnae Theatre until October 7. See listing.
Music
Elbow The gloomy Mercury prize winning UK rock band play Sound Academy tonight. See listing.
Community
Public Services, Good Jobs and the Ontario Election Get a take on the October 6 showdown from this discussion on the economy and the social safety net panel featuring Labour Council president, Johm Cartwright, NDP candidate Cathy Crowe, Canadian Federation of Students’ Sandy Hudson and more. 8 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall. See listing.
Art
New York Conversations No Reading After The Internet, a salon series directed by cheyanne turions, screens Anton Vidokle’s 2010 film New York Conversations, documenting a series of talks and dinners he, Rikrit Tiravanija and Nico Dockx organized with artists (including Liam Gillick, Lawrence Weiner and Martha Rosler), critics, curators and the public. Turions and Power Plant curator Melanie O’Brian lead a discussion afterwards. At the Camera Bar. See listing.
