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FILM: Torontonians love a good film fest. We also love a good film fest showcasing global aboriginal filmmakers and media artists. That’s why the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival is celebrating its decennial anniversary. The festival, which begins today and runs through Sunday, will feature more than 125 works created by Indigenous peoples, including film, video, radio, and new media that address both traditional and contemporary themes. To kick off the festival, an opening ceremony will take place at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (1 p.m.) with a prayer and musical performances. Tonight’s opening gala (7 p.m.) at the Bloor Cinema will feature two Canadian films: Reel Injun, a documentary that deconstructs Hollywood images and stereotypes surrounding Native peoples, and Tungijuq, a short film starring singer Tanya Taqaq that celebrates the Inuit hunting tradition. Various locations and times; workshops and panels FREE, regular screenings $7, opening- and closing-night screenings $12 ($10 for students and seniors), festival pass $100 ($60 for students and seniors).

FILM: For a second year, the Canadian Sport Film Festival hopes to reach sports fans and film buffs alike with a motley collection of stories about the power of sport to enrich lives and inspire hope and courage. The festival opens with A Woman Among Boys: A Brooklyn Basketball Story, a full-length documentary profiling fearless leader Ruth Lovelace (or "Coach Love"), the only woman coaching boys' high school basketball in Brooklyn, New York. In keeping with the theme, the film will be screened alongside the trailer for First Ink, about Toronto's own Chris Bosh. Other highlights this year include Pink Paddlers, the story of a group of dragon boat–racing breast cancer survivors in Singapore, and the Canadian premiere of More Than Just a Game, about a soccer league started by political prisoners in apartheid-era South Africa. A Woman Among Boys screens tonight at 7 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre; various other showtimes and venues for the rest of the festival; $10 per screening, $8 for students (at the door), $40 for full festival pass.

Lady singer-songwriters get an historically raw deal (thanks for nothing, Lilith Fair). But when you're lumped in, first and foremost, with company as incestuous—and hugely successful—as the Arts&Crafts crew, you've got not only the means but the insular support to create and release, unafraid. Amy Millan, luckily, has nothing to be afraid of anyway. The Toronto-born-and-raised, now-Montreal-moonlighting chanteuse released her sophomore solo album, Masters of the Burial, earlier this month, and through laments of her own and some choice covers, she paints another dusty, unabashedly pained-artiste portrait of romantic solitariness.

MUSIC: Stars songstress Amy Millan graced Harbourfront's stage two weeks ago with seventeen of her closest friends—members and comrades of Broken Social Scene—and now she's back with a hometown solo performance as part of the Canadian Voices series. Millan, joined by labelmate Gentleman Reg, will bring her melancholy blend of country and folk to the stage tonight before embarking on a North American tour this fall to promote the upcoming release of her sophomore album, Masters Of The Burial. The first single from the new album, "Bruised Ghosts,"—which may sound familiar from BSS's 2004 Live At Radio Aligre FM in Paris release—is available for free on the Arts & Crafts Sampler Volume 6. If you can't make it out tonight, CBC Radio 3 will be providing live coverage of the show. SIRIUS Satellite Radio Stage, Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), 8 p.m., FREE.

"Do you trust your friends? Would you let them redecorate your apartment, or do your homework for you? Would you let them buy your groceries? Would you leave them in charge of your kids? And if you did, what would they change?"

The Over The Top Festival starts today—the real one, not the CFL event. The next four evenings will find bands, films and dance performances filling various downtown venues.

We realize that we probably talk about Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, way too much. So we're not going to talk about his free show on Saturday night at North York Central Library, also featuring The Creeping Nobodies, Hank, Ninja High School, and Bob Wiseman. Nope, not a word.

This weekend, the Harbourfront Centre plays host to Indie Unlimited. The festival's lineup features Amy Millan, The Hidden Cameras, Bell Orchestre - and Great Lake Swimmers, who are coming off the end of their touring in support of their acclaimed 2005 album, Bodies and Minds. Frontman Tony Dekker took some time to talk with Torontoist about touring and what's next after this weekend's show.

Tsk, tsk. Late two weeks in a row. Someone needs a good spanking. Next week we'll get our act together and put Torontoist before busy schedules and get this puppy out on time. Pinky swear.

Been on break for a while, but we came back with a great show last week live from the Harbourfront Centre. It was the Roots Remix festival, and we had artists, musicians, kids, tons of people rolling through the tent to say hi.

We previewed Cassius' new one, 15 again, look for that in August. And our fake debate show, The Final Solution, explored just how gluttonous you can get at McDonalds. We're talking..."give me a Big Mac, but instead of the burger patties, throw on a couple McChickens, and yeah, lather that puppy up with mayo homegirl."

Break out the earplugs and prepare to get very little sleep over the next few days, as the North by Northeast Music Festival and Conference begins tomorrow. Your wristband ($28.00) gets you into approximately 400 shows at 33 venues, all film screenings from the film festival portion, as well as the closing party Sunday night at the El Mocambo. Bargain!

There's a difference between celebrity-gawking locally (seeing P Diddy buying some clothes at Roots in Yorkville), and local celebrity-gawking (catching Stuart Berman eating a burrito at Bar Burrito). At Torontoist, we'd take the local celebs locally any night of the week. And last Friday - the Tangiers' CD release party at Lee's Palace - happened to be such a night.

This week's weeklies point us to few concerts of musical and cultural import, namely, the Over The Top Fest. Torontoist would just like to emphasize this: The music kicks off tonight with found-sound bad boys The Books at the Abbas-Mo (464 Spadina), New York Times favourites Mice Parade at the Poor Alex (296 Brunswick), and By Divine Right headlining at Sneaks (431 College). The rest of the weekend includes MC Paul Barman, Amy Millan, Republic of Safety, AIDSWolf, Thunderbirds are Now! and a lot more. More on these concerts, and specifically Paul Barman, later.

brand matches have all the aspects of a clever promotion; they're cheaply produced, easily distributed, and infinitely practical. It's an intersting idea. But based on Thursday night's Stars concert at the Phoenix, perhaps a more deft advertising move would be to make better use Amy Millan's mesmerizing good looks. In all the Stars press packets and media, she's practically hidden. Please! The woman is 100 per cent babe! And this isn't something Torontoist is trying to conceal - we're very open about our creepy "internet guy" crush on the stunning Stars vocalist. But for this post - the last time we mention Amy Millan or Stars for a while - we'll take a detour from our usual goo-goo ga-ga, "we love Amy" type banter to review the Stars show at Exclaim Magazine's 13th Anniversary Party.

The Tall Poppy Interview - Amy Millan, Musician

Torontoist doesn't usually like to single people out, but we feel that a healthy "congratulations" are an order for our very own sports editor, Adrian. Last week, our most adorable staff writer was on hand in Guelph, Ontario to accept a degree from the prestigious Guelph University. After seven years of battling administration and wearing backwards mesh hats, Adrian has finally earned the right to wear the cap and gown.

Often referred to as the Broken Social Scene babes (of which Feist is included), Emily Haines of Metric and Amy Milan of Stars are indeed scorching hot. However that is not the issue here. The constant recognition of their natural, milk-fed beauty shouldn't trump the importance of their musical contributions to our fair city, or their actual music. So Torontoist will have to drool over the two in a later post. (This will be necessary since Chart Magazine dedicated a whole issue to Emily Haines's hotness, unfairly ignoring the hot Amy Milan).

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