Entertainment

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Chicken back after three-year hiatus

Those hoping for a particularized history of the Internet will not find it in Werner Herzog’s playfully thought-provoking Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected World.

1. New Orleans by way of the Bronx singer-songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra , a.k.a. Hurray for the Riff Raff , brings her freewheeling, folky stylings to town in support of her latest album Small Town Heroes . She’ll be at the Imperial Aug. 4.

Even Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus doesn’t come close to the body count in The Romans in Britain now running in repertory with Betrayal and the Country Wife on the Jericho Arts Centre stage.

As anyone in the “caffeine, carpool, cocktails, repeat” cult can attest, motherhood is a blood sport. And it’s not just the kids you’re up against.

The Courier's long-running investigative series What's Howell Having for Lunch? returns after a lenghty hiatus and finds the newspaper's civic affairs reporter and truth warrior Mike Howell getting extremely healthy for his midday meal.

1. Celebrating its 40th year, the Powell Street Festival is Metro Vancouver’s longest running community arts festival.

Because Pericles is a happy story of a miraculous family reunion, it might be hard to understand why this late Shakespeare play is so seldom produced.

Stephen Dunn and Connor Jessup are eating Cheerios and chatting from Toronto via speakerphone about labels, a pivotal hate crime and convincing Isabella Rossellini to play a talking hamster.

1. Drawing comparisons to Tegan & Sara, Feist, Haim and Fleet Foxes, Montreal’s Motel Raphael bring their indie-pop stylings and charm offensive to the Rickshaw Theatre, July 21. Vancouver Island’s Alexandria Maillot opens.