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THEATRE: Week two of Jerry Springer: The Opera (the inevitable follow-up to Reefer Madness: The Musical) starts tonight, with a special midnight performance this Saturday (January 24). With character names like “God” and “Peaches,” the musical is designed to both entertain and offend. Cheers to Hart House Theatre for bringing the London west-end hit to Toronto. The play runs until January 31. Hart House Theatre (7 Hart House Circle), 8 p.m., $25 ($15 students and seniors).

Photo by Jeff Croft.

Sunburned, gaunt and greviously underslept, the average Torontonian party-goer is in rough shape this week after the World Electronic Music Festival, or WEMF 2007 this past weekend. To nobody's surprise, WEMF isn't dead, international trance DJ Ryan "OS/2" Kruger isn't retiring and the image of thousands of ravers from the city camping in an Ontario field for three days is seemingly burned into Toronto's collective tube. It is estimated that over 5,500 people, mostly from the GTA and upstate New York, attended the three-day festival at the Niagara Regional Exhibition in Welland, ON.

Say what you will about Maestro Fresh Wes and his infamous sacroiliac, but Toronto has never held down any sort of thriving hip hop scene. Save for K-oS and Brassmunk, local talent hasn’t made much of an impact outside of MuchVibe. There was that Snow song 10 years ago, but it’s widely accepted that he was embarrassing. And don't even TALK about Choclair or Kardinall Offishall as purveyors of the art form in the city, because they haven’t had a strong single in a long time (or more like ever).