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COMEDY What: Capital City Comedy Where: Farquhar Auditorium, University of Victoria When: Saturday, Sept. 21, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $32.75 ($22.75 for students and alumni) from tickets.uvic.

What: Victoria Symphony (Masterworks): Rachmaninoff and Brahms When/where: Monday, Sept. 23, 8 p.m., Royal Theatre Tickets: $35-$88. Call 250-386-6121 or 250-385-6515; online at rmts.bc.

ON STAGE What: The Children Where: The Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Ave. When: Sept. 19 through Oct. 13 Tickets: $18-$44 from tickets.belfry.bc.

What: Diane Pinch presents Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia Where: Bolen Books, 1644 Hillside Ave., Hillside Shopping Centre When: Sept. 19, 7 p.m.

Upcoming concert, with 70-member chorus and 45 classical musicians, is group鈥檚 biggest to date

OPENING Ad Astra (Capitol 6, Cineplex Odeon Westshore, Landmark Cinemas University Heights, SilverCity Imax) Brad Pitt stars as an astronaut searching for his father in the outer realms of the solar system.

ON SCREEN What: Apollo 11: First Steps Edition Where: Imax Victoria, 675 Belleville St. (in the Royal sa国际传媒 Museum) When: Sept. 20 through Oct. 5 Tickets: $5.40-$11.95 from imaxvictoria.

LOS ANGELES 鈥� It wasn鈥檛 quite enough to take down Pennywise the clown, but Jennifer Lopez and the scheming strippers of 鈥淗ustlers鈥� topped even its high expectations at the weekend box office. 鈥淚t: Chapter Two鈥� brought in $40.

A number of well-known authors drew nominations Wednesday for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Victoria Children鈥檚 Book Prize, each of which awards $5,000 to two winning writers from the Greater Victoria area.

IN CONCERT What: JoJo Mason with Eric Ethridge and Sons of Daughters Where: Distrikt, 919 Douglas St. When: Wednesday, Sept. 18, 9 p.m. (doors at 8) Tickets: $25 from Lyle鈥檚 Place, the Strathcona Hotel and Eventbrite.