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This weekend’s TCAF was a lesson in facial hair and anxious hovering (refer to Karen Whaley's photo recap). Most comic artists are known for their self-loathing and surrealism (what artists aren’t?), but never have so many accomplished beards gathered in one place. Knowing that comics have traditionally been a boy’s club, it was especially great to see so many women artists come out and make it a more gender-even atmosphere. However, the female presence did make the nervous, skinny boys floating about the tables even more so. The tension! Oh yes, the tension!

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

L’Oréal Fashion Week officially ends today, but for all intents and purposes it's already over. While work commitments kept us from attending most events, we've been following news coverage keenly and have assembled the following recap.

When searching for a new place to live, what is the first thing you look for? Location? Lifestyle compatibility? Enticements? A blank slate to shape in your unique style? Groovy wallpaper?

Call it cultural tourism, voyeurism, a geek fest, call it what you will. But when we heard that I Maid Cafe—a Cosplay restaurant—had opened up in Scarborough last December, we knew we would be taking the trip to Kennedy and Finch very soon.

The word on the street is that the hottest ticket in town is The American Astronaut, screening tonight at Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex) as part of U of T Cinema Studies Student Union’s Free Friday Film. Screening in 35mm, this black and white sci-fi western rock opera is “the best thing ever” according to Todd Brown from Twitch Film.

We've got an invite to pass along for a launch party, exhibit, and book signing for photographer Geoffrey James' newest effort, Toronto, on Thursday night. James has travelled around the city taking shots of some of the underappreciated places in the city with his wide-angle panoramic camera. Torontoist's favourite local philosopher, Mark Kingwell, provides the introduction.

Friday, we caught the 9:15 pm show of at the Bloor Cinema.

We’re pleased to say we managed to reach day five of the Toronto International Film Festival before succumbing to a migraine. Of course, the result is that we missed whatever exciting happenings were going on in the evening, including the Planet Africa party, always one of the most popular TIFF parties (which is why they continue to run it two years after ending the Planet Africa programme.) We heard the entire Raptors team were invited, but we don’t know anything else about it!

Now that we're in the final days of the Festival Cinemas remaining open, the Bloor Cinema took the opportunity to offer some interesting programming: the 1965 cult-classic "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and Michael Winterbottom’s “9 Songs”. Their scheduling was a welcome change from the second-run films that have characterized the Festival chain for some time.

Queen or Leah McLaren? Tonight, McLaren will be sharing the stage at the Gladstone with Katrina Onstad. Canada AM's Seamus O'Regan might want to wear a black and white ref's jersey just in case a fight breaks out between the two of them, seeing how Onstad makes not so veiled insults at McLaren in her new book.

- On Sunday the Mexican Consulate is helping Harbourfront with Day of the Dead celebrations, which include dancing, food and a workshop on how to make 'sugar skulls.' Also, a claymation short about a man who realizes being dead isn't so bad.

Industrial documentary photography has a long and distinguished history. The works of Lewis Hines, Margaret Bourke-White and Walker Evans, among others, loom large.

Two photos stand out in Irwin Oostindie’s exhibit Axis to Grind: Inside North Korea showing at Gallery 1313 until Feb. 27. In one, a soldier stands at attention, bayoneted rifle by his hands. This photo is what most of us think of when we think of Kim Jong Il’s ‘rogue state,’ a country with a Stalinist security apparatus and a Maoist cult of personality, arguably combining the two worst aspects of Communist ideology. But it’s the other photograph, a blurred black and white print of a boy running through a stream, that more accurately represents Oostindie’s intent. He wants to portray North Korea as more than just a terrorist state, rogue nation and brutal dictatorship, to present a balanced and human picture of a vilified country. It’s a portrayal that’s hard to come by, drowned out by censorship and repression on one side and rhetoric and ignorance on the other.

, which depicts the demise of a house fly. The winning photo (pictured, thanks Spider Awards) was selected by such important institutions as the Tate Gallery, Sotheby's New York, Communication Arts magazine and other leading photographic curators, magazine editors, art institutions and members of the photography industry. Goldblum, however marginalized by the recent award, is still loved by many.

**Warning: due to the sexually explicit nature of this post and this place, Torontoist does not endorse taking ones children or prudish friends here, unless for purely educational and nutritional purposes. Diner discretion is advised.**

Perhaps we're self-absorbed, but we think the Globe heeded our call. Globe 7, we read you loud and clear, and we think this unofficial dialogue has made us all better people. This weekend's cover is a marvel of graphic restraint. And the colours are nice too, though that's a whole lot of Depp neck, and his shirt is some kind of fug. We're still getting a constructivist vibe, which is good because Torontoist's a sucker for red, black and white. All in all, good show. We only wish we'd actually taken the rubber band off our paper before 8pm, so we could've expressed our enthusiasm bright and early. Also, no film reviews by the McJournalist (what the hell?), save the interview with the lovely Ms. Toews, which was decent fun. All in all, job well done.

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