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FILM: Ah, Bruce LaBruce, with his blood, penises, more blood, and even more penises (we thought the Santa Claus Parade was missing something this year). Bruce LaBruce: A Retrospective hits the Royal Cinema tonight, featuring classics and the release of his new film, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People. As if that wasn't enough, a little duo named Crystal Castles are opening up for the first-night premier of Otto at 9 p.m. Gay porn and electro-punk? Now that's a Christmas party. Royal Cinema (608 College Street), December 4–6, various times, $5–$11.

Just when you really thought you'd seen it all, Keep Six Contemporary curator Rafi Ghanaghounian brings us Explicit Fantastic. The brand new author series (accompanied by a recently opened art show) brings some A-list writers out of the bars and Brigantine Room and into the—wait for it—laundromat. Tonight, Hollywood Coin Lounge (180 Ossington Avenue) will play host to some scribes aiming to unload some dirty words. The idea behind the ongoing series is to bring NSFW literature into functioning laundries, creating an ongoing forum for Toronto talent to share "their most explicit sexual ink" and "pleasuring word efforts" with you. There's no cover, but you are asked to bring a couple of loads of dirty laundry to do while you enjoy the reading. Tonight's event starts at 7 p.m. and offers Greg Kearney, Tamai Kobayashi, Dwayne Morgan, Angela Rawlings, Steve Venright, and Zoe Whittall. Explicit Fantastic the reading is also accompanied by Explicit Fantastic the exhibition, housed at Keep Six Contemporary (938 Bathurst Street). The show, which runs until November 30, also explores sex and sexuality in contemporary culture with works by a variety of practicing contemporary artists, including Bruce La Bruce, Shary Boyle, Thrush Holmes, Kelsey Brookes, Richard Kern, CUM, Dan Witz, TILT, Junko Mizuno, Rikki Kasso, Allyson Mitchell, and Tomori Nagamoto.

Bruce LaBruce loves his Polaroids. He loves those little instant squares of photographic goodness so much that he's been shooting a series of Polaroids over the last five years exploring the three time honoured themes of sex, violence and death. All of this blood, gore, bodily fluids and photos culminates in a retrospective at Gallery 1313 which opens tonight.

Two major art fairs in town this week mean that it'll be hard to wander around Toronto without hitting an artist, critic, art dealer, patron or hanger on of some sort.

, gets its 'downtown premiere' at PleasureDome this evening. So the question on TOist's lips is 'where was the uptown premiere?' Dufferin and Wilson? Newmarket? Regardless, the downtown premiere of this downtown flick comes with bonus live DVD commentary, by way of a post-screening interview with the downtown director. The film follows a gang of sex terrorists and their efforts to overthrow things. What things? We're not sure, but we like 'messy camp manifestos, boytoys, raspberries and Wilhelm Reich,' especially when mixed together haphazardly.