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ART: Toronto's Queen West neighbourhood has long been considered one of our city's most cherished cultural enclaves. Its motley mix of characters, from artists and musicians to local crazies, combined with blocks of tiny galleries and eclectic gathering places conjures an energy that is contagious to residents and visitors alike. Now in its seventh year, the Queen West Art Crawl (or QWAC) taps into this energy to celebrate the area's unique fusion of creativity and community. Stretching from Roncesvalles to Spadina (in addition to marquee events in Trinity Bellwoods Park and Parkdale Town Square), participants include local galleries, restaurants, boutiques, and studios. The crawl kicks off tonight at Gladstone, where the walls and rooms of the hotel will be devoted to art associated with the festival. And this year, the party coincides with the opening of the taboo-tackling Rated R Show in the hotel's Art Bar. Encouraging sixteen visionaries to banish boundaries and explore their concept of "rated R," the exhibit tantalizes with various interpretations of adult art—from the downright dirty to the borderline juvenile. The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West) and Art Bar, 7–11 p.m., FREE.

Reel Asian is a festival that, we must admit, we've never made it out to before. Along with a couple of the other fall festivals (imagineNATIVE, Planet in Focus), we make a point of browsing the lineup for something worth making an appointment to see and then, whether we find something or not, inevitably forget about it. Hopefully, this time will be different. It has to be. Reel Asian, entering its twelfth year, has now reached the level of institutional maturity at which it possesses the resources to branch out and appeal to people outside of its traditional constituency.