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PARTY: Get those digital cameras charged, ladies, because Raptors star Chris Bosh is commemorating his twenty-fifth birthday in style this evening with a super sweet public party that will inevitably make all those lavish parties on MTV's My Super Sweet Sixteen seem kind of bush league. Though originally scheduled to be held at CiRCA, Bosh's bash is now being held at Liberty Village's Maro (a bar "supper club" that needs to hire someone immediately to add a "Skip Intro" button to their website). DJs Whoo Kid and Starting From Scratch will spin all the fly beats. Oh, and some dude named Busta Rhymes is supposed to perform. Advance tickets can be purchased via Ticketweb. Ka-BOSH, indeed. Maro (135 Liberty Street), 10 p.m., $25.

The ROM is kicking off Egypt Month on Saturday, February 28 with a new attraction: the Book of the Dead (and no, it’s not the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead series—that demonic text was Sumerian). The seven metre–long scroll, which is part of the ROM’s Out of the Vault Series, has recently been restored to its full beauty. Written in 320 BC for a wealthy Ptolemaic Egyptian named Amen-em-hat, the text of the scroll contains numerous spells, hymns, and instructions to help guide the deceased through the underworld. The scroll also depicts Amen-em-hat fishing, farming, and standing in judgement before the Egyptian gods.