See V for Vendetta for free when St. Pete for Peace stages its Wednesday night film presentation. Based on a comic about a futuristic totalitarian Britain, the film follows a meek young woman and her association-by-rescue with a masked revolutionary, who urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. 8 p.m., Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Ave., St. Petersburg.
Spencer Seim of Hella brings his experimental instrumental side project, sBACH, to New World Brewery. Happy Valley, The Tape Delay and Uh-Oh Spades provide support. 9 p.m., $7, 21 and up.
Courtney Martin — a teacher, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body" and an The American Prospect Online politics and gender columnist — presents "Perfect Girls: How a Generation Told 'You Can Be Anything' Somehow Heard That They Had to Be Everything." 7:30 pm, Fox Hall, free admission.
The weekly Wednesday Midday Market kicks off for the fall today. Find fresh produce, tasty eats, plants, flowers and arts and crafts in Williams Park, and enjoy live music. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Fourth Street N. and First Avennue N., 727-410-5040.
This article appears in Nov 5-11, 2008.