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Hey, it's a parable about the need for socialized medicine starring Denzel Washington. What's not to like? Obviously something, since John Q didn't exactly tear up the box office. Roger Ebert pulls no punches, saying he's down with its message while describing it as "so earnest, so overwrought and so wildly implausible that it begs to be parodied." The New York Times' Elvis Mitchell similarly said "it is a remarkable document, so ham-fisted that it sabotages its own worthwhile arguments."

If you're up for a little subversion on Thursday night from 5–7 p.m., check out our old pal Fauxreel's talk, Resistance in the City, at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at U of T (7 Hart House Circle). Done in association with Signals in the Dark: Art in Shadow of War, an exhibition opening that evening, Fauxreel will "talk about his work as a street artist and give a mini-demo/workshop on techniques and tactics for transforming mass media into a critique of itself."

The arduous, lengthy, and expensive quest to name the Bell Festival Centre is over. The Star described the process for finding a new moniker for the home of the Toronto International Film Festival Group in dramatic terms: "[it] has gone on for years," wrote Martin Knelman, "involving high-priced consulting firms and a committee of board members and gurus, climaxing with a think-tank meeting at a retreat in Cambridge, Ont."

A mystery is afoot in Riverdale. The residents of Cambridge Avenue near Broadview & Danforth have grown familiar in recent years with the roaming gangs of monkeys—a dozen at last count—that dangle from the utility wires above the street.

When was the last time you jumped on your bed? How about jumped on a hotel bed- and documented the historic moment?

The Times Higher Education Supplement and Newsweek have both come out with long lists of the world's best universities. It's not much of a surprise, but the Ivy League figures prominently with Harvard and Yale in the top five for both lists. The British based THES ranks Oxford and Cambridge prominently while Newsweek relegates Oxford to eighth place.

Billionaire Kenneth Thomson, Canada's richest person, has died at age 82. He was ranked ninth on the Forbes magazine list of the world's wealthiest individuals with an estimated fortune of $19.6 billion.

God, fame, escaping prejudice, qualifying for the Francophone Games/Jeux de la Francophonie: All valid reasons for running in this Sunday's Toronto Waterfront Marathon. There's that, and of course the mega-concert of "Canadian classic rock band Lighthouse and the worlds' #1 calypso/soca artist David Rudder." If we knew about this before, we would have quit eating nachos for breakfast a long time ago.