By Colleen Hale-Hodgson

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com.

Photo of Miranda Mulholland, courtesy of Mulholland.

PERFORMANCE: Miranda Mulholland and The Roaring Girl Cabaret kick off their month-long residency at The Cameron House tonight, showcasing a mix of classical musicianship and contemporary jazz, with some folk and opera to round out the sound. Mulholland is a virtuoso fiddler and has worked and performed with the likes of Jim Cuddy and Sarah Slean and appeared in the acclaimed show Bowfire. The Cameron House (408 Queen Street West), every Tuesday night in July, 6–9 p.m., pay-what-you-can.
FILM: The popular outdoor sunset screenings at Yonge-Dundas Square have returned this summer with the theme “Adrenaline Rush!” The lineup for the summer is packed with action films, from one classic (Raiders of the Lost Arc on July 14) to another (The Great Escape on August 25). Tonight, Steve McQueen is behind the wheel in the racing flick Le Mans (1971). McQueen plays Michael Delaney, a race car driver with a troubled past. He’s come back to the most gruelling endurance race in the world in Le Mans, France, after his previous try got a close friend killed. Cars will explode and Steve McQueen will mug for the camera—what else could you possibly want in a racing movie? Yonge-Dundas Square (2 Dundas Street East), 9 p.m., FREE.
SPORTS: Le Mans is meant to complement the day’s main event: Honda Indy Toronto Festival. The Honda Indy Toronto runs from July 10–12, but before the checkered flag drops, Yonge-Dundas Square is holding a two-day festival for race fans in the GTA. There will be race cars on display, food, an area to practice your pit-stop skills, and tomorrow you can watch the finalists of the Toronto Sun “drivers, start your engines” competition, which will decide who gets to say the game-starting line come race day. Yonge-Dundas Square (2 Dundas Street East), 12 p.m.–dusk, FREE.
WORDS: Strong Words is a reading series founded by Eye Weekly writer Kate Carraway (the same Carraway who’s been bemoaning the current state of Toronto journalism) and Indiepolitik mastermind Matt Blair. Since its inception in 2005 it has survived through several organizational changes (Carraway left in 2007) and the demise of Indiepolitik itself, which it was once closely affiliated with. Tonight they celebrate a milestone—their fiftieth reading—and a move to a new Tuesday-night slot at the Gladstone Art Bar. Tonight’s event is curated by Spencer Butt and Devon Code, and the readers are John Goldbach (author of Selected Blackouts), Valentino Assenza (two-time finalist for the Toronto Poetry Slam and author of Wandering Absence, Il Ritorno, and Quiet Confessions of a Loudmouth), and Kenneth Farrell (vocalist for performance art group/pop band Gravity Wave). Strong Words will be collecting book donations at the event for the Book Ends program at the Toronto Public Library. The Gladstone Art Bar (1214 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., pay-what-you-can (19+).
WORDS: The Toronto Women’s Bookstore and the Scream Literary Festival bring you “Five New Manifestos on the Book & Open Letter Launch” at Supermarket tonight. Five New Manifestos on the Book is a keynote discussion between five luminaries on this question: Is the book really dead? The night will also celebrate the Toronto Women’s Bookstore Summer 2009 issue of Open Letter, a publication featuring a group of Canadian women writers in their mid-careers who are still pushing the literary boundaries among their peers. Supermarket (268 Augusta Avenue), 7–10 p.m., $7 suggested; free with purchase of Open Letter.