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May 26 marked the fortieth anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous Montreal Bed-In, the site of the recording of "Give Peace a Chance." Over in the M-Dot, the Musée des beaux arts has been holding a popular exhibit about what may have been the world's most famous sleepover. Closer to home, draft89 Theatre Collective has been mounting The John/Yoko Bed Piece at the Theatre Centre, which dramatizes the event.

ART: This month's exhibit at the Steam Whistle Brewing Gallery is called "It Figures" and celebrates the human form through varied and unique artistic interpretations. The artists featured this month are Michael Tenaglia, Aurora Pagano, Jessica Gorlicky, and Jacqueline Okuhara. There is an opening reception tonight for the exhibit, with the artists in attendance. Steam Whistle Brewing Gallery (255 Bremner Boulevard), 6 p.m., FREE.

FILM: Tonight at the Revue Cinema, join bands The Flatliners, The Wooden Sky, The Sinisters, Maximum RNR, and more for a tribute night to Canadian cult film Hard Core Logo. Following a screening of director Bruce McDonald's cut of the film, McDonald will be doing a Q&A. There will also be appearances from secret special guests and prize giveaways of rare vinyl, t-shirts, and CDs. The event is presented by JUICEBOXdotcom's Sam Sutherland and Ashley Carter (former and current Torontoist contributors, respectively). The Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Avenue), 7 p.m., $12; proceeds go to education initiatives at the Revue Cinema.

Nominees for the 29th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards were announced yesterday morning at the Sony Centre. Over muffins and coffee, various TAPA members, politicians, and mainstays of the Toronto theatre scene presented three awards and read off a long list of those eligible for taking home the coveted (if heavy) jesters come June 30th. This year’s nominee list, for the most part, is a rich cross-section of the Toronto theatre-going scene over the past year.

This week, Musicologist is pleased to share that Wavelength will be hosting a festival celebrating their anniversary. The weekly music series has come a long way since its inception in 1999 and has seen various bookers, venues, and, of course, musicians contribute to the success of the series. Wavelength commits to showcasing great music at an accessible cost (all shows are pay-what-you-can) and most recently, has made a vow to feature diversity in the selected genres and performers. All of these elements are reflected in this year’s ambitious festival.

Ever wanted to know what goes on in the kitchens at the Royal York Hotel? Or see if the interior of the Gooderham Flatiron Building is as cool as its exterior? Or finally know what’s in that loft above the Pure Spirits building at the Distillery District?

series from The Movement Movement. The main movers of The Movement Movement, dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin and artist/curator Jessica Rose, are inviting the public to run laps of the museum for public art’s sake. You could be running through Ancient Peru or perhaps Heaven or Hell. Sounds exotic! The upcoming run will be extra special as filmmaker Nick de Pencier will work with Lewis Kaye (soundster) and Dean Baldwin (photographer) to capture the run on film. The art of running through art will create art.

Torontoist still has mixed feelings about condos. On one hand, they're harbingers of gentrification, and are often built with little or no regard for the surrounding neighbourhoods. On the other hand, it beats paving over another patch of forest or farmland for a subdivision.

Artists Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rose are known around town as the artists behind the Movement Movement, a series of art performances that involve running around art venues like the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, or the Theatre Centre and even non-art venues like City Hall.

ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable), the Montreal art collective, responsible for the burnt-out SUV installation at Dundas Square last summer is coming back to Toronto. They won't be blowing up any SUVs, but drivers of gas guzzlers might want to watch out anyway.

Seems like it's just bad news piled upon bad news for the city's small theatres this fall...

The Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations were announced yesterday at the top of First Canadian Place. And for once, there is little to argue with… (Well, there's always something to argue about, so feel free to go at it in the comments here.)

For the next three weeks, Toronto audiences will have a chance to see the most (in)famous husband and wife puppet duo of all time -- in the flesh. The Confessions of Punch and Judy, arriving from New York and opening in previews tonight at the Theatre Centre on Queen West, is "an all-night showdown that jump-cuts between quarrel and confession, song and dance, and absurd comic violence."

Torontoist is a mite concerned by the note on this production's website that the shorts presented contain "the seeds of [Beckett's] most radical ideas," since Beckers wrote most of his short plays -- including Not I and That Time -- well after the radical theatre-changing ones that everyone knows, ie. Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days. But we're going anyway in the hopes that Beckett's best and completely wordless work Nacht und Traume (Night and Dreams) is on the bill. Torontoist saw a student production of it four years ago and still cries when s/he recalls it.