Best bets

A Shor thing

The 2007 Triangle Jewish Film Festival won't happen until June. But on Sunday, moviegoers can get a taste of what to expect when the N.C. Museum of Art, along with the Raleigh-Cary and Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish federations, screen "Toots." The documentary chronicles the life of New York York saloonkeeper/scalawag Bernard "Toots" Shor, right, and features interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Frank Gifford and Yogi Berra, among others. Tickets to the 2 p.m. showing are $18 ($15 for students and museum members). 715-5923; www.ncartmuseum.org.

'Superstar' power

We hope you didn't give up music for Lent (in fact, we hope you never do), because then you'd be forced to skip N.C. Theatre's new production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." With Ray Walker playing Judas, the show is as close as theater can come to a sure bet. As The N&O's Bill Morrison wrote in his review of the company's 1996 "Superstar" staging, "It's not the screams of impotent rage that make Ray Walker so convincing as Judas; it's the madness revealed in those terrified eyes." Between his star turns as Judas, Walker has gotten plenty of stage time in both Raleigh and New York, most notably as the high priest Annas in the 2000 "Superstar" revival on Broadway. The rock opera reverberates anew from Saturday through March 4 at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh. 834-4000, www.ticketmaster.com.

Taking turns

One arm extends toward heaven, the other to earth. In the traditional Sema ceremony, the spinning dancers convey grace to the witnesses in between. Tonight, the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi from Konya, Turkey, will perform the Mevlevi Order Sufi ritual in Duke University's Page Auditorium. The program promises music, dance and a display of perfect harmony. 684-4444, tickets.duke.edu.

Open your giggle box

The laughs are piled into one big package for "The Big Black Comedy Show" as a busload of funny folks heads to Raleigh this weekend. D.L. Hughley, right, gets star billing in a lineup of comics familiar from film and TV -- Tommy Davidson, Adele Givens and Michael Colyar with J. Anthony Brown as the evening's host. Come 8 p.m. Saturday at the RBC Center, it's unlikely that anyone will be able to keep a straight face. 834-4000, www.ticketmaster.com.