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OPENING Bombshell (Cineplex Odeon Victoria, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity) (Opens Wednesday) A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.

A pair of Vancouver Island youth music programs earned top honours in the CBC’s annual Canadian Music Class Challenge, winning a cache of instruments valued at $3,000 for their respective classrooms.

Texas trio ZZ Top will band together with Rockford, Illinois favourites Cheap Trick for an eight-date Canadian tour that gets underway in Victoria next year.

British comedian Russell Brand will make his Victoria debut next year when his worldwide Recovery Live tour stops at the University of Victoria.

PARIS — Anna Karina, the French New Wave actress who became an icon of the cinema in the 1960s and was the muse of Jean-Luc Godard, has died. She was 79. The French culture minister announced her death on Twitter on Sunday.

Imagine a time when facts didn’t matter. When misguided ideology took precedence over the truth. When mass hysteria could sway the weak-minded and the world seemed to have gone mad.

ON STAGE What: A Wonderheads Christmas Carol Where: McPherson Playhouse, 3 Centennial Square When: Tuesday, Dec. 17 (7:30 p.m.) and Wednesday, Dec. 18 (7:30 p.m.) Tickets: $34.75 ($26.

Get in tune with the season at Tuba Christmas, a gathering of more than 100 musicians with tubas and euphoniums playing your favourite holidays tunes with a distinctive deep, warm brass sound, Saturday at Market Square.

IN CONCERT What: Sing-Along Messiah Where: Alix Goolden Performance Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. When: Wednesday, Dec. 18, 7 p.m.

IN CONCERT What: Victoria Symphony Presents Magic of the Holidays Where: Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St. When: Saturday, Dec. 14 (8 p.m.) and Sunday, Dec. 15 (2 p.m.