Local Arts

Friends With Benefits. Directed by Will Gluck. Starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. Rating: 5 (out of 10) Dont have sex with your friends. Dont have friends with your sex.

- Penny Plain by Ronnie Burkett, a Rink-A-Dink Inc./Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes production at the Cultch to Dec. 17. Box office: 604-251-1363.

Friends With Benefits. Directed by Will Gluck. Starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis. Rating: 5 (out of 10) Dont have sex with your friends. Dont have friends with your sex.

BOOKS are a wonderful gift as it allows you to find something perfectly tailored for each person on your list. If you have someone who likes the smell of oil and getting some grease on their clothes then here are some possibilities.

Instrument by Pat Graham, Chronicle Books, 160 pages, $33.95 PHOTOGRAPHER Pat Graham shows that beauty comes out of musical instruments even when they are not being played.

The Descendants. Co-written and directed by Alexander Payne. Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller and Beau Bridges.

THE audience titters as the host addresses a question to the debaters: "According to economist Milton Friedman, capitalism is the economic system where greed causes what?" he asks.

DVD Flypaper. Directed by Rob Minkoff. Starring Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd.

NORTH Shore fans of choral music are in for a treat as the B.C. Boys Choir performs both tonight at the Kay Meek Centre and Dec. 4 at Centennial Theatre.

- Which Oil? By Richard Michell, published by Veloce Publishing, $26.95. THE restoration of a collector car takes painstaking commitment to detail.