To begin with:

Big Wheel Bingo
(LEGAL GAMBLING/VARIETY SHOW) After a good couple of years honing its shtick and delighting crowds at the Rendezvous, Big Wheel Bingo—the po-mo game show/variety hour masterminded by Kaleb Hagan-Kerr, who doubles as host Bing Wheeler—finds a new home among the Frenchy psychedelica of Can Can Kitchen and Cabaret. It’s a night of glitzy game-show theatrics; special guest stars; good old-fashioned bingo; and thanks to the new locale, surprisingly yummy food and drink. (Can Can, 94 Pike Street, 652-0832. 9:30 pm, bingo is free, 21+.) DAVID SCHMADER

To end with:

A) Tate 2 is unveiled. From the Guardian: “‘Its design can,’ says architect Jacques Herzog, of Herzog and De Meuron, the Swiss practice which conjured Tate Modern from Bankside power station, ‘be interpreted in two ways: as the erosion of a pyramid and, in contrast, as a pyramid in the process of emerging.’” As an English lady might say, “Now that’s clever.”

B) If you agree with the great ideas of Karl Marx, then certainly you will see a connection between the enormous profits Exxon Mobil Corp. just cant stop enjoying and the condition of the arts.

C) Despite the American wars, the American president, the House of Representatives, Hollywood continues to rule the world.

Speaking of movies, Police Beat, which is directed by Robinson Devor—a man whose close association with me has cost him any chance of winning the Genius Award—is having its last night at the Varsity this evening. Tomorrow it will appear in Vancouver at Vancity. For those who know nothing about this film, here is by far my fav reveiw of it.