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A note to Torontoist readers from an artists' group with some impressive collective activist-power:

The city is full of high society soirées such as the Brazilian Ball, the Power Ball, and Fashion Cares. Which is fine for the jet set, but the rest-of-us set also likes to get dolled up once in a while. Which is why Gallery TPW is inviting everybody to the D-List Ball this Saturday at 56 Ossington Avenue. The fund raiser will be hosted by Keith Cole and features musical entertainments by Karl Lagerfeld's Ponytail, Black Turtleneck, Will Munro and Jon Sasaki as well as a performance by Darren O'Donnell. There are also lots of prizes including a little something for the best ensemble of the evening. Tickets are $20, which according to Gallery TPW, makes it a fancy pants event that even artists can afford to attend.

"I’m going to Pakistan in November to share Q&A with young theatre artists during a festival celebrating Punjabi culture. I arrive on November 17. Look for more posts then."

Sheila Heti (pictured here hiding behind this chair) is one of the many artists invited by the Music Gallery for its fundraiser "Compose Yourself."

Torontoist searched the blogosphere and figured out that people were in love with Nuit Blanche. "This is kind of like Halloween for Adults," Under Sky Blue Sea overheard. We think it might be because he, like so many others, was walking around in the fog installation over by Philosopher's Walk.

In the second of this series, we've picked another five "must see" events -- this time from Nuit Blanche's Zone B. All these activities are happening in and around the OCAD building. Unless specified, the events we've picked run for the full 12 hours, so you can visit them at any point in the night.

Ok, so the city is in the grip of full-blown festival mania. Red carpets, Gala screenings, and celebrity sightings are all great, but so are poetry readings, right? Right? Anyone???

Artist, Santa Cruz organizer, co-founder of Three Gut Records, Eye Weekly art director and woman-about-town Tyler Clark Burke launches her newest – and most ambitious – project today: The Few Bricks Short A House Project. Tyler wants to buy a house, and has enlisted some of her friends to help her do it. Starting today, you can bid on a variety of items or services donated by Toronto artists, photographers, musicians, and writers - as well as her mom. 40% of the profits will go to the donor, 40% will go to Tyler, and the remaining 20% will be donated to Habitat for Humanity.

Haircuts By Children gives a couple of Parkdale elementary school children some shears and an opportunity to go at the hair of strangers at various salons around Toronto during the month of May.

Coach House books had a huge fall season with books like uTOpia and the City Man. The spring season is a more poetic affair including a Thorstein Veblen inspired book by John Paul Fiorentino. There are also novels and new work by writers such as Darren O'Donnell and a translated work from two-time GG winner Nicole Brossard.

York U prof Amy Harris is the guest editor over at Reading Toronto this week and appropriately enough she's been posting on novels set in Toronto. There are a few stalwarts on the list like Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion, Atwood's Cat's Eye and Michael's Fugitive Pieces.

While Torontoist was busy at the back of the uTOpia launch making marshmallow towers and Libeskind-inspired "crystals," great panellists were chatting about the city. The newly launched Rabble Book Lounge recorded one of the panels (Discussing Public Space with Darren O'Donnell, Dave Meslin, Heather MacLean and Adam Vaughan). You can get it here.

Time to get out that cloning machine you've been keeping around. If the Halloween and IFOA festivities weren't enough to keep you swamped there's the Small Press Book Fair and if that's not enough for you there's Canzine at the Gladstone 1:00 pm, on Sunday. It's also the unofficial launch of the newly re-designed Broken Pencil. This year's theme, Burlesque. Indie Kids Gone Wild anyone? There'll be over 150 zines, readings, Darren O'Donnell and fifth birthday celebrations for No Media Kings

Are you tired of hearing about the adventures of Frodo and Gyllenhaal? A change of pace is yours today, by way of the Coach House Books 40th anniversary reading and 'virtual tour' at Harbourfront. Authors include Karen Hines, Andrew Kaufman, Anne Michaels, Darren O’Donnell, Michael Ondaatje and others. Don't tell the movie stars.

Canadian cities, this one included, seem defined by winter or at least the colder times of year. So when the sun and heat does arrive we are caught physically and psychologically off-guard.

Last night, before catching the opening night of Darren O'Donnell's A Suicide-Site Guide to the City at Buddies in Bad Times, Torontoist stopped in Kathmandu (417 Yonge St., 416 924 5787) for a little Indian/Nepalese pre-theatre dining.

Local playwright Darren O’Donnell got himself in a bit of trouble the other day, when he told Eye’s Paul Isaac that the Toronto theatre scene was, by and large, “worthless.” That’s just not something that you say. Especially when your contribution to the year in theatre was a garbled piece of new-agey nonsense called pppeeeaaaccceee.