Get your geek on: Twelve of Vancouver’s funniest female performers duke it out tonight in the latest instalment of West Coast Geeks vs. Nerds: Femegeddon Again at Fan Club to settle once and for all two burning questions: Who is pop culture’s most psychotic female sidekick and who is outer space’s biggest badass with two X-chromosomes. The Joker’s on-and-off lady love Harley Quinn is up against Lord Voldemort disciple Bellatrix Lestrange, while one-eyed Leela from Futurama takes on fellow spaceship captain Lieutenant Starbuck from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica series. There can be only one.
Get cheering: After a disappointing 4-2 Super Bowl Sunday loss to the oft-played Minnesota Wild, the Canucks take on the Winnipeg Jets, a team currently sitting at fourth place in the Central Division, for the first time this season tonight. Look for newly minted Canucks member Ronalds Kenins, who scored a goal in his first NHL game two days ago, to try to find the back of the net again.
Get Disneyfied: Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, a hit Broadway musical based on the Academy Award-winning animated film, welcomes guests to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Relive the timeless tale of a prince who is turned into a shaggy monster after he refuses to invite a witch into his castle and the open-minded woman who (eventually) loves him in this family and furries-friendly show opening tonight and running until Sunday.
Get humbled: In celebration of the 25th year of International Development Week, SFU Harbour Centre is offering a 7 p.m. screening of the award-winning documentary Living On One Dollar. The film follows the journey of four fresh-faced university students who set out to live on just a buck a day for nearly two months in rural Guatemala, where they soon find themselves battling hunger, parasites, and major stress issues as they try to cope with the same financial reality that plagues an estimated 1.1 billion people around the world.
Get inspired: As part of the Unique Lives & Experiences lecture series hosted by the Orpheum Theatre, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe shares her experiences at the Saint Monica Girls’ Tailoring Center in Uganda that provides shelter for hundreds of young women and girls whose lives have been shattered by violence and rape due to the infamous Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army.
