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The week starts off with another instalment of Pussy Pen, an evening of readings and performance focusing on women, trans, and queer perspectives. It takes place at Tango and Crews, 508 Church St, beginning at 8pm. Free.
Tuesday’s Wildsound script reading series features Face to Face, a TV pilot script written by Christina Ray and Mark De Angelis. The event is moderated by Pamela Sinha. It starts at 7pm at the Stealth Lounge, 22 Cumberland. It costs $4.
That same evening, This Is Not A Reading Series presents Mark Kingwell and Seth: Shaken, Not Stirred. It’s the launch party of their new book, Classic Cocktails: A Modern Shake. If you’ve been following Kingwell’s cocktail column in Toro over the years you know you’re in for a treat. Seth (pictured) provided illustrators to the book. Happy hour starts at 7:30 and is free (admission, not drinks.)
The same night, the Art Bar poetry series featured Steven Michael Berzersky, Daphne Marlatt, and Susanne Buffam. It takes place at the Victory Café, 581 Markham, starting at 8pm, and is free.
On Wednesday, food critic Cecily Ross reads from her book Love in the Time of Cholesterol. It’s starts at 7pm and takes place that the North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. It’s free.
That same night, LIFT hosts a reading of the film script Blood, Blood, and More Blood by filmmaker Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Paris Je T’aime). Starts at 7pm and takes place at Xpace, 303 Augusta. PWYC.
The second This Is Not A Reading Series event of the week takes place on Wednesday, as well. Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) and Ivan E. Coyote (Bow Grip) and in conversation with Zoe Whittall, with special guest Elvira Kurt. It’s at the Gladstone at starts at 7:30pm. Free.
On Thursday, the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St., presents an evening of readings of women poets Ann Carson, Pamela Mordecai, and Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes. It’s free, and starts at 7pm.
Also on Thursday, Toronto WordStage celebrates its 10th instalment with readings by Barry Dempster, Luciano Iacobelli, Lara Solnicki, and Ricardo Sternberg. It takes place at Cervejaria, 842 College, and the readings start at 7:30. It’s free.
The big event this week is the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. It runs from October 11 through to the 14th at various venues around the city. There’s too much going on to list it all, but the third annual festival will include daily workshops, nightly poetry slams featuring poets such as Shane Koyczan, Lillian Allen, and Robert Priest. Check out the website for all the details.
On Friday, the I.V. Lounge presents Jacob Sheier (Three Seasons in Hell to Hear the Good Singing), John Barlow (the ufos of south toronto), and Susan Helwig (Pink Purse Girl). It takes place at the I.V. Lounge – 326 Dundas St. W. – starting at 8pm and is free.
Finally, on Saturday, those fine purveyors of speculative fiction, graphic novels, and fantasy lit, Bakka-Phoenix Books (697 Queen W) will host a joint book launch for Canadian science-fiction writers Karl Schroeder and Peter Watts. It’s free.
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"If you’ve been following Kingwell’s cocktail column in Toro over the years you know you’re in for a treat."
What? What?
I treated the fact that Kingwell writes a cocktail column in Toro as an urban legend until it was confirmed for me by several independent sources. But it always perplexed me... What kind of person writes a cocktail column? What kind of person reads a cocktail column?
Why would anyone care what Mark Kingwell is drinking? There are people who actually ask what the hot, new cocktail is? There is such a thing as a hot, new cocktail?
A friend told me that the other professors in U of T's philosophy department strongly dislike Kingwell, and one derided him as the "least profound" member of the faculty. I thought at the time it was kind of a dickish remark, but in light of Kingwell publishing a book unironically titled Classic Cocktails: A Modern Shake, I now believe it was a rather fair comment.
Man all those philosophy professors are just jealous because all of the first year girls have crushes on him and not some dowdy Heidegger loving in an ill-fitting tweed jacket.
Also, Kingwell's column isn't about the "hot new cocktail" it's more a cultural essay about a certain drink and how it's changed. People write scads of stuff on wine and beer, why should cocktails be treated any differently?
Kingwell may be a bit self-important, but he has a good reason to: he's very, very smart. As a lecturer, Kingwell's very good (if polarizing), and I've enjoyed most of his writing. This collaboration with Seth - it's Seth! - sounds cool.
And who singles someone out for being the "least profound?" Goddam philosophy department.
My favourite part is when you call it an urban legend, that has to be verified by several independent sources.....Just check out Toro's website, or better yet, pick up a copy of the magazine. It's one of the best reads in the country.
Oh yeah, the class I took with Kingwell a couple of years ago (History of Western Philosophy) was without a doubt the best course I've taken at U of T. And as I told my classmates at the time, if there's anyone who's earned their arrogance, it's Kingwell.
But that doesn't change the fact that there's something so... Kingwell about writing a quasi-intellectual monthly cocktail column. It seems like such a concentration of everything that people find obnoxious about him, a sort of self-parody, in the way that Elvis embraced and eventually grew into the image and exaggerated persona of himself that existed in the popular consciousness.
who ever came up with the PUSSY PEN is a freaking genius.
that is what we should call our house of congress. they send people to war while they hid behind pages.
jack jett
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....Oh man.
If Seth and Mark Kingwell both came up to me at the same time and forced me to choose between them because only one of them could win some kind of coolness prize, or not be killed by a dragon, or be my prom date....I WOULDN'T KNOW WHO TO CHOOSE so much that THE UNIVERSE WOULD IMPLODE.
Mark Kingwell can do no wrong.
For another urban legend about him, google for Mark Kingwell "palming".
Thanks to Rek for the fascinating "palming" tip-off, which now can only be read via cache.