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No Country For Old Men cleans up at the Oscars. The Coen Brothers finally got some big-time recognition with nods for best picture, best directing, best adapted screenplay, and best husband of Frances McDormand. In other news, a bunch of Canadians got nominated for stuff and didn't win any of it. (There! We could totally write entertainment news for any major Canadian newspaper now!)

If you were a child passing through Toronto since the early 1970s, there's a good chance you may have eaten at The Old Spaghetti Factory. Kitschy antique decor, the pots of whipped garlic butter that arrived with the loaf of bread and a family-friendly atmosphere have kept the crowds coming for nearly four decades.

Where can you find popcorn lovers and peaceniks together? At a politically conscious film fest—in a park, no less!

It is often said that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. This is precisely what Jacque Fresco has been urging humankind to do. Industrial designer, engineer, inventor and artist, Fresco is often described as a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci. Encouraging society and government to envision a world where we use our collective energies to create buildings and cityscapes that benefit the greatest number of people on a global scale, Fresco's ideas may literally save the planet.

While North American documentaries are becoming increasingly political and divisive, Souvenirs, Iraeli filmmaker Shahar Cohen’s directorial debut doc, is the very human story of a father and son trying to understand where they came from so they might to understand who they are.

We're just going to put this out there: if you're generally unaware of what it is these "Academy Awards" and "Oscars" are all about, go here.

According to the website for the 79th Annual Academy Awards, it's only one day and four hours until this year's ceremony— and yes, Torontoist is that excited. Not only will we be watching, we'll be liveblogging the event, as we did for the 2006 civic elections. Think of it as a written audio commentary, tailor-made for Torontonians.

Torontoist was very saddened to learn of yesterday's passing of Canadian animation legend Ryan Larkin.

Torontonians were once again woefully unprepared for the first major snowfall of the season. 500 traffic accidents in one day, people. Do we really want everybody else making fun of us again, like that time Mel Lastman called in the Army to help out after a snowfall? It's Just because we've had a freakishly warm winter thus far is no excuse for complacency!

Between the groundbreaking (and Oscar-nominated) Walking in 1969 and his equally revolutionary follow-up, Street Musique, three years later, Ryan Larkin cemented his status as among the most daring and brilliant animators of his time, taking hand-drawn animation to a previously-unseen level of surreal impressionism. He was the rising star of the NFB, the protégé of, and successor to, Norman McLaren, but the pressure to top his earlier triumphs exacerbated his already-present problems with drug- and alcohol-dependency. He left the NFB in 1978, and after a "hazy" decade during which he managed to get himself off of cocaine, Larkin took up panhandling outside (the greatest restaurant in the world) Schwartz's deli in Montréal. This tragic fall from grace was chronicled in Chris Landreth's excellent 2004 Academy Award-winner for Best Animated Short, Ryan, which renewed attention on Larkin, who nevertheless chose to continue his long stint on The Main.

Brazil.

Our boy reporter called him "arguably the greatest Canadian animator ever" after viewing the Best of Norman McLaren during the Toronto International Film Festival, so you might be interested to see that starting tonight the NFB are celebrating 65 years of animation production with nightly, free of charge events.

You could sit in a parking lot and watch a movie about cheerleaders (actually, that sounds like fun), or sit in Dundas Square and watch horror films (which also sounds like fun) or you could join the Toronto Public Space Committee at Bellevue Square Park for the launch of the Streets to Screens film series tomorrow evening, 8pm.

On the top of Carter’s wishlist for this year’s B-day? A week off practice, open-arms from his ‘loyal fans’, a kiss from his mother and an NBA lockout. Crappy Birthday Vincent. No one’s coming to your party except for your mom.