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"Honest Ed's" is usually the answer to questions such as "Where can I get a complete dish set for $10?" or "How can I buy the pewter Elvis bust and two-dozen mouse traps I need from one store?" and not often "Where can I see a well conceived and interactive art exhibit?" But things change. Honest Threads is sponsored by the Koffler Centre for the Arts and is its first off-site exhibit—one that has attracted so many visitors that organizers extended its run, initially set to end March 8, to the end of the month.

ART: Torontonian innovator Moses Znaimer is curating a new exhibit, "Im/AGE: From 'Bust' to 'Boom' to 'Zoom,'" launching today at the Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts. The exhibit is inspired by Znaimer's New Vision Of Aging for Canada. It aims to idealize his theory of the "zoomer," which is not actually slang for magic mushrooms, but rather a term describing a baby boomer with "zip,"...so, "zoomer." Sixteen artists will explore the question, "What does it mean to be one of the 14.5 million 45+ Canadians in Canada?" Among works from Jim Bourke, Joan Kaufman, and Joseph Muscat, Znaimer's exhibit will feature an installation from performance artist Faye Mullen entitled "here I lay," in which Mullen is naked the entire time, hell yeah appears nude, buried and planted in a shipping crate filled with peat moss, paying tribute to that decades-old theme of decay. If Moses Znaimer ever wanted to change his last name, it would be funny if he changed it to Zoomer. Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts (984 Queen Street West), 7–10 p.m., FREE.