Local Arts

Dances for a Small Stage. August 10, 11 and 12. The Legion on the Drive, 2205 Commercial Drive (at East 6th Ave). Doors: 7 p.m. Show: 8 p.m. Tickets: $20. Cash at the door. 19+ Admitted.

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings bring it all home

Cowboys & Aliens. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.

If Vancouver had a cooler, hipper older brother, Id like to think it would be San Francisco. Nothing against our lovely city, but San Fran has seriously got it going on.

GALLERIES Argyle Avenue: 1400-1600 Block, West Vancouver. Harmony Arts Festival - Art Market: A line-up of artists and artisan works selected by a jury team will take over Argyle Avenue July 29, 4-9 p.m. and July 30, 31 and Aug. 1, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Indie band look to build on Peak Performance win

- Pacifika, part of the Harmony Arts Festival's World Music series, Saturday, Aug. 6 at 4 p.m. on the Pacific Arbour Garden Stage in Millennium Park (15th Street at Argyle Avenue). Free. Info: harmonyarts.ca.

Crazy, Stupid, Love. Directed by Glenn Ficara and John Requa. Starring Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Rating: 8 (out of 10) THERE should be ticker-tape at the end of screenings for Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Lifoff, Joe's Apartment (919 Granville St.), July 9.

Beautiful Darling (USA 2010). Directed by James Rasin with Chloë Sevigny, Fran Lebowitz, Gerard Malanga and others. Vancouver premiere of documentary at Pacific Cinémathèque July 29-Aug. 3. Rating: 7 (out of 10) John Goodman jgoodman@nsnews.