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It sounds pretty simple. There's one rule, right? Don't get so wasted that you a) spill the beans to your boss about i) the fact that you hate him/her or ii) the fact that someone is quitting, b) touch someone inappropriately, or c) throw up in your boss' lap. And yet come holiday season, we're bombarded by so much inane advice on how to not screw up at your office party that it's enough to make anyone paranoid. So to save you some time, we thought we'd do a summary of the not-so-helpful suggestions from our local etiquette experts.

Necessary Angel has just announced a totally cool event planned to take place on March 3, 2008. Three playwrights will be given the opening lines for a new play. Each playwright will have 4 hours in which to write said play, after which three different teams will have 5 hours to rehearse the works. When those 5 hours are up, the plays have to be performed at Necessary Angel's annual gala at the Capitol...

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After some talk in April, we were worried that the movement on street food had fizzled out. Lo and behold, Councillor Filion is rounding up his troops of chefs for the promised Toronto Street Treats Event on Friday at Nathan Phillips Square from 12 to 2 p.m. with little to disappoint.

It's hard to imagine a better of way of getting people to want information than by trying to keep it from them. That's why the federal government probably shot itself in the foot last month when, according to the CanWest News Service, Conservative MPs "abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S." Apparently (and this is still in the words of the news report), the Conservative committee chair Leon Benoit "threw down his pen, declaring, 'This meeting is adjourned,' and stormed out [of the room]" just moments after the committee's witness predicted that the government's plan to further integrate U.S. and Canadian energy supplies would mean that, "Canadians will be left 'to freeze in the dark.'"

For Toronto's Kids On TV, it's been a long road to get their debut album completed, one that has lasted the better part of three years. For those waiting to hear Mixing Business With Pleasure, released last week by the Blocks Recording Club, there has been the lingering question of how the music would translate from the live show onto tape. For a band that is so infamous for its high-energy, explicit performances, how would the music hold up on its own? Very well, it turns out.

We at Torontoist love our pets, and yours too, and we’d be happy if they didn’t do much else but shower us with undeserved admiration and give us a little snuggle when we get home after a hard day of Torontoisting.

The answer to that groan-inducing question is the Latvian House (491 College St.) where the Downtown Urban Design Event (DUDE) show starts tonight at 6pm and runs through the weekend. Exhibitors include: socially responsible fashions from Passenger Pigeon (all their clothing is made with organically grown and ethically produced materials), our friends from the Monster Factory, pottery, jewelry, pins and more.

Some of our favourite people ever are getting together to throw a mayoral party and we're all invited. Toronto's champion, David Miller, will spar with challenger Jane Pitfield in the ring at Revival, 783 College Street at 8 PM (barring any unforeseen interruption, of course!) Each mayoral hopeful "will outline their visions for Toronto's public spaces" and face the Spacing Inquisition from a panel of journalists.

Gather the girls up and nevermind the boys, they'll be glued to their seats in pubs across the city watching the footie finals. And as much as we admire the players, um, "athleticism", maybe this weekend should be spent primping, with a peppering of pampering? Downtown Diva is putting on an afternoon of spoils with the Glow Summer Beauty Event- shopping, beauty demos, designer treats and did I mention the martinis? Yes, there will be martinis. Summertime afternoon tippling? What could be better? Going on July 9, between 12pm-6pm at Mink Nightclub, 150 Pearl Street. Go for the beauty treats or go for the martinis, just gather up the girls and go. For ticket info, click here: Glow Summer Beauty Event Tickets.

Today is the first day that you can go see Theatre @ York's performance of Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage. Findley's novel, a frightening retelling of the Noah's Ark story (involving ragtime piano, a devoted cat, and a unicorn, if I recall correctly), has been adapted for the stage and runs until March 25th at York University's Burton Auditorium.

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