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LECTURE: Bob Dylan fans can learn more about the influential songwriter at a multimedia event by Michael Gray this evening. Alongside rare archival footage and excerpts from Dylan’s music, Gray—the author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia—explores his subject’s music and its blues influences. Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas Street West), doors open at 6 p.m., presentation at 8:30 p.m., $22.50 or $25 at door.

It’s funny that we mentioned in our introduction last week, because it’s showing tonight at 11:30 p.m. at the Bloor. It’s been a while, in our memory, since the last time it showed, which would imply that the fans in Toronto aren't as rabid as elsewhere, but we’d still recommend that you don't head along unless you’re very familiar with the film. Who knows what could happen.

Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson has, as he put it to Torontoist in a phone interview earlier today, "seen better days." The Integrated Media OCAD student and his final project for his advanced video class are the direct cause––intended or not––for yesterday's bomb scare at the Royal Ontario Museum, and, a day later, Jonsson is now suspended from OCAD and is wanted for questioning by police. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's readymades pieces (the most famous of...

Photo by David Topping. A mysterious bag discovered in an alleyway beside the Royal Ontario Museum at about 7:00 p.m. tonight has shut down all traffic––pedestrian and vehicular––on Bloor between St. George and University and on Queen's Park southbound from Bloor and Harbord. UPDATE (10:45 p.m.): CTV is now saying that police have found "what appears to be a pipe bomb," and that the building was (half-)evacuated (contrary to what we were originally told)....

This is Corky and the Juice Pigs performing their song "Eskimo." If you're not familiar with the song, or if you haven't heard it in a while, then Torontoist should warn you: this clip may be offensive to the Inuit, gays, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Ric Ocasek, seals, and anyone without a sense of humour.

The most unusual aspect of Monday night's quiet jam at the Drake Underground was the absence of annoying chatter during three folk-rock solo sets. Everyone knows Toronto keeps it real by keeping still, but normally a quieter show means restless drinkers hoping to catch up with friends while they absently watch a show as if it's background music. Astoundingly, the audience remained almost completely and respectfully silent throughout Baby Eagle, again through Woolly Leaves, and again for Sackville, New Brunswick's Julie Doiron.

Torontoist realizes that in some cases there's no point adding another concert review to the pile. But since we love concerts and our over-educated minds can't turn off their on-going critical evaluations, we present a review of the reviews. This post: last night's Bob Dylan concert at the Air Canada Centre.

10. The inexplicable use of a Native American voice as a narrator to the cave-drawing animation that introduces the movie. No, M. Night, this isn’t an actual Native American yarn- you wrote it. And there aren’t any Native Americans in the story. But I guess it gives it that “classic” vibe, huh?

Where have Bedouin Soundclash not been over the last year? Well, they've definitely not been nowhere (that is, they've been everywhere). And with this type of saturation inevitably comes backlash. Thus far, though, the only real hint of mainstream backlash came after their hyped Lee's Palace show last year - one which was rampantly attended by jocks and 'dudes in khakis.' (We discussed that issue a long long time ago, here).

So tonight is the big opening of the Festival, with certain sections of the city all abuzz with poseurs yammering into cell phones, except now not in Canadian accents! All the staff and hardworking volunteers will be hoping it all goes off without a hitch, terrified and excited at the thought of nearly two weeks of celebrities, parties, networking… oh, and films, I guess. The opening night Gala tonight is Deepak Mehta’s Water, a film shut down by Indian extremists, forcing the director to film the rest of her examination of ostracized Indian widows in Sri Lanka. Torontoist, naturally, doesn’t have tickets, and due to Ontario’s severe laws won’t be scoring any on eBay either, so we're here with a look at the Contemporary World Cinema and Reel to Reel programmes.

Individual tickets for shows at the festival go on sale today, and Torontoist will admit that we’re a little behind on our TIFF programme previews (who puts a festival straight after Labour Day, eh?) So we’re going to speed it up a bit, with coverage of the ‘big’ films – the Galas and Masters today and we’ll clear up the rest over the next couple of days. If you seriously fancy any of the films we’re mentioning here you can easily pick up tickets online at the Toronto International Film Festival home page, but we’ve got no idea if there are any tickets left. So if you’ve got your heart set on something and they’re all gone, keep it in mind most of the films below will eventually come out and cost ordinary cinema prices, so maybe check out something that might not instead?

This February 14th is in the running for the most depressing day of the year. The gloomy weather, the TTC fair hike, U2's performance at the Grammys and the fact that it's a Monday all add up to one sad day. So to get you and yours in the mood, Torontoist has come up with this cute little playlist...(Sorry, no downloads)

President George W. Bush is expected to make his first stately visit to Canadian soil later this month, causing some concern in our nation's capital. As previously reported on Torontoist, a certain federal MP (that's you Carolyn Parrish!) has ridiculed the sitting president and his allies on multiple occasions, one time even calling American people "bastards."