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Welcome to the calendar listings. Theatre, dance, live music, nightspots and other performances appear in day-by-day listings, with family activities and ongoing exhibitions under 鈥淓vents鈥� at the end.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The musical "Chicago" is about to swagger into the history books again. Thursday night's performance of the edgy musical will be its 6,681, meaning it becomes the third longest-running show in Broadway history.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - I got a look at the first episode of "The Following," Fox's upcoming crime thriller, a few weeks ago. Its level of graphic violence left me disgusted and dismayed. But with plenty of time to spare before its Jan.

BEIJING, China - Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and a self-described "cellist-nerd" brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest Wednesday.

MONTREAL - Relax, world 鈥� your baby won't get snatched by an eagle if you visit Montreal. An online video of the massive bird plucking an infant off the ground was acknowledged by its creators as a fake Wednesday.

NEW YORK 鈥� Leonardo DiCaprio is usually an above-the-title headliner, but in Quentin Tarantino鈥檚 Django Unchained, he鈥檚 just another device. 鈥淎nd it sucks,鈥� joked DiCaprio with Tarantino and some of his co-stars at a Manhattan hotel news gathering.

Organizers aren鈥檛 waiting until the Victoria Film Festival begins to give the public a taste of the cinematic calibre it can expect.

IN CONCERT Pink Mountaintops with Ryan Beattie (Himalayan Bear) When: Friday, 7 p.m. Where: Upstairs Cabaret Tickets: $17.50 at rmts.bc.ca, Lyle鈥檚 Place and Ditch Records. Everyone has to start somewhere.

IN CONCERT The Sheepdogs (with Yukon Blonde) Where: Sugar Nightclub When: Friday, 9 p.m. Tickets: Sold out Success hasn鈥檛 turned the Sheepdogs鈥� heads. Or so it seems. Their latest self-titled LP debuted at No. 1 on the Top 200 Soundscan chart.