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MUSIC: The Over the Top Festival continues tonight with a bunch of options for music, film, and theatre (see our full preview from yesterday). Long-time Vancouver duo Mecca Normal give a combination lecture, art exhibit and performance tonight, starting with their “How Art and Music Can Change the World” presentation. The veteran writing, art and music-making team follow up their lecture with a live concert performance. (6 Nassau Street), 8 p.m., $11.

Experienced CBC television-buffs will ardently sing the praises of Opening Night, a Thursday night tradition which since 2001 has been delivering exceptionally high-quality arts-based programming. Unfortunately, the majority of the people out would rather spend their Thursdays with CSI than with CBC, hence the current and already truncated season of Opening Night (now only 1 hour, instead of 2 and featuring only 11 episodes) is almost certainly going to be its last. As those of us still in mourning for ZeD know, CBC does have a history of cancelling some of its most interesting programming. But the loss of Opening Night will be a real shame. Over the years, it's showcased some amazing television, from concerts, to filmed Stratford productions, to Guy Maddin's sublime Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, which remains the best film adaptation of Stoker's novel and probably one of the best dance films ever made.