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Reel Toronto: <em>Dirty Work</em>

This Norm MacDonald vehicle is not by any stretch of the imagination a good movie, but that doesn't mean it isn't funny. There's no real acting (Norm is Norm, which is just fine), it features some interesting cameos (Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, and a brilliant-but-on-death's-door Chris Farley), and (all together, now!), it was filmed on the streets of our fair city!

The Star's website is reporting that at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, the TTC will announce details of a plan to blanket the city in a network of sixty to eighty kilometres of Light Rapid Transit (or LRT, as it's affectionately called).

Last night's star-studded 17th Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Awards brought prestigious wins for local play 'Da Kink In My Hair and playwright trey anthony. The play started as a one-woman Fringe Festival production and enjoyed multiple sold-out runs in Toronto until expanded by the Mirvishes at the Princess of Wales Theatre last year.

Photo by kuzan 3 from Flickr. Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Those who live downtown generally stay downtown, but Avenue Road and Eglinton Avenue West is well-situated...

Earlier this week in the concert listings, we briefly told you of the upcoming free shows that the Toronto Public Library were holding. Now that the full details have been released, here's the low-down.

This summer is looking as bloody as last summer. Early this morning a man was shot dead on a rooftop patio in the club district. Two others were wounded.

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.

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