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The Twilight Saga: New Moon, across the country on Friday. "Excruciatingly lovely and forever 17," is how author Stephanie Meyer describes Edward Cullen, the glam-pire hero of her Twilight books. In The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the sequel to last year's box-office smash, Bella (Kristen Stewart) is devastated when Edward (Robert Pattinson) departs but finds solace with werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Upping the erotic ante, New Moon is full of shirtless, buff were-dudes. You may have seen them in their natural habitat: They're the hairy guys at the gym who always hog the Nautilus machines.

Liam Lacey

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VISUAL ARTS

Mirroring at the Diaz Contemporary in Toronto on Thursday. Victoria-based artist Mowry Baden may be 73 this year, but his work still rocks. This week he brings five new sculptures to Diaz Contemporary in a show titled Mirroring, reflecting his usual preoccupations with perception and bodily experience. Instead of strapping us into these sculptures or spinning us around, Baden says we just stand next to these ones and have a look - a late-life nod to tradition perhaps.

Sarah Milroy

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The Country, in Calgary on Thursday. "There's not a limit to what can be said, only a limit to how honest we are prepared to be." Martin Crimp, the reigning British master of theatrical menace since the death of Harold Pinter, is criminally underproduced in this country, so I'd hop a plane, train, bus or taxi to see the Canadian premiere of 2000's The Country at Theatre Junction, directed by Chris Abraham and starring Shaw Festival's Fiona Byrne. The play begins with a seeming act of good Samaritanism, when a doctor brings a young woman he says he found unconscious in a ditch back to his family home. Seeming being the operative word.

J. Kelly Nestruck

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DANCE

Displacement at the Fleck Dance Theatre in Toronto on Wednesday. The acclaimed multimedia collaboration is about the immigrant experience, and the creators are all new Canadian immigrants who have made great contributions to the arts - choreographer Robert Glumbek (Poland), composer Christos Hatzis (Greece) and sculptor Vessna Perunovich (Serbia). The piece involves seven dancers, three projectors, suspended sculptures and the Penderecki String Quartet.

Paula Citron

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UNDER THE RADAR

The strong-voiced Carolyn Mark and the thinking man's alt-country band NQ Arbuckle have cooked up a likeable little album, Let's Just Stay Here. Broken-in songs concern life on the road - a road that takes them Thursday to the Twin Butte County General Store & Mexican Restaurant in southern Alberta. It's a sociable place at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. The beds and enchiladas are reasonably priced; cold drinks are served; the music is right nice. Let's just stay here.

Brad Wheeler