What to do on

Thursday, August 7 2025

• If the weather allows, A Company of Fools presents The Comedy of Errors in Fisher Park (near Wellington Village and Hampton Park)  from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. 

• 🆓  Rain or shine, the 8th annual Bowman’s Bar & Grill’s IPA Day returns Wednesday August 8 with live music, raffle prizes, and, naturally, the best IPA from seven local breweries (5:00pm til 11:00pm ).  A portion of the proceeds will benefit Operation Come Home, which assists youth experiencing homelessness to achieve their goals. NOTE: the party takes place in the parking lot, so if you must drive there, you'll have to seek parking elsewhere.   

• It’s Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones at the Broadway Bar & Grill Central's Trivia Night. 

• A (Bad) Night at the Movies is screening the gloriously cheesy dystopian story The New Barbarians (1983), which looks like it cobbled together its futuristic mise-en-scène with leftover, first-generation Battlestar Galactica props and shoulder pad-era Cybertruck prototypes. 

• Pay just $10 at the door at the weekly Thursday Swing Dance by Ottawa Vintage Swing. 

• ByTowne Cinema: Samia, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Together 

• Mayfair Theatre: Eddington, Sorry, Baby, Boogie Nights 

  Gigs

• Spike and the Gimme Gimmes. Bronson Centre Music Theatre

• Victor Nesrallah. Night Oat

• Broken by Friday, Mori Dori, Fire Manic. House of TARG

• Cardamom Years, Lady Grey & the Phantoms, Apostlebird, Ceippo. Rainbow Bistro

• Irene’s Blues Sessions with Guest Host Dave Bignell. Irene’s Pub