Movies
What’s Your Number? The great comic actor Anna Faris finally finds a movie that shows off her terrific timing and lets her play an interesting character. See review.
We Were Here David Weissman’s moving and informative documentary looks at the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco and focuses on five people whose lives were radically changed during that time. See review.
Stage
His Greatness Currently the best play on in local theatres, Daniel MacIvor’s drama looks at what may have happened when the way-past-his-prime playwright Tennessee Williams visited Vancouver in 1980 for a production of one of his plays. At the Factory Studio. See review.
Sabrina Jalees The now NYC-based comic returns to town Saturday for a show at the Flying Beaver Pubaret. See listing.
Comedy Night In Canada Mike MacDonald, Jessica Holmes, Mark DeBonis, host Jon Dore and others take part in a special comedy gala that coincides with Canada’s Walk of Fame Fest. At Massey Hall on Sunday. Seelisting.
Music
PS I Love You The Kingston guitar/drums duo rock out at the Great Hall Saturday night, and we hear they recently picked up a double-necked guitar for extra rawk. See listing.
Metro Area It seems like they’ve been on an extended break for a few years, so there’s a lot of excitement about New Jersey synth disco duo Metro Area playing a late-night (midnight until 4 am!) set at the Drake Hotel Saturday. See listing.
Suuns The Montreal band have a more unique take on that whole synth-rock thing than most of their contemporaries, and play the Garrison Sunday night. See listing.
Community
Tenant Summit In a city where rent is expensive and tenant rights elusive, huddles like this one get really important. The afternoon features workshops and a report by the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations on the State of the Unit. 10 am-2:30 pm. Free. Ryerson U Podium Bldg. See listing.
Arab Women and Media Representation Panel discussion as part of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival on Sunday, with filmmaker and director Ruba Nadda and Arab feminist scholar Nahla Abdo, moderated by NOW Magazine’s senior entertainment editor Susan G Cole. 3 pm. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex, TPFF.ca. See listing.
Rights for Migrant Farm Workers Though we eat the crops they pick, we usually don’t see many migrant farm workers in the city. But today, the Pilgrimage to Freedom hosted by Justicia for Migrant Workers arrives in town to spotlight dangerous working conditions and human rights violations in areas like Niagara, Leamington and Chatham. The caravan arrives at the Ontario Ministry of Labour at 3 pm. Free. See listing.
Art
Nuit Blanche Rock around the clock with the annual all-night art party starting at 7 pm and ending at dawn. If you’re an artist, check out the Speed Art Criticism event in the Gladstone parking lot, where you get 15 minutes to chat about your work with one of a slate of local art writers that includes NOW’s art critics. See listings.
Culture Days free admissions For those who didn’t stay out all night at Nuit Blanche, two art venues offer free admission today as part of the Culture Days national celebration of the arts: the suburban McMichael, where you can take in historical photos of the West by the Lomen Brothers and paintings by Jack Chambers, and the Power Plant, where three contemporary shows explore books and the concept of narrative.
