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CULTURE: The city will come alive this weekend—resplendent with vibrant colours, spectacular pageantry, extravagant costumes, and the lively music of masquerade bands—with the wrap-up of the forty-second annual Caribana Festival. The festival, a celebration of Caribbean culture and traditions, billed as Canada's largest cultural celebration, is expected to draw more than one million participants this year. The festival slogan for 2009 is "Won't Stop the Vibe" and hopefully the civic workers' strike or the six- to eight-foot-tall fences along the parade route —on Lake Shore Boulevard from the CNE to Parkside Drive—won't stop it. As the parade wends its way along the route, visitors can also enjoy the entertainment in a relaxing atmosphere at the Caribana Tent Theatres in Marilyn Bell Park. Lake Shore Boulevard and Exhibition Place (200 Princes' Boulevard), 10 a.m.–6 p.m., FREE ($15–18 for seats in the CNE).

Over the past two years, one hundred (or so) faces have popped up on walls around the city. Most were completed in stages: a quick sketch of a woman done one night in black paint might grow blue eyes, brown hair, and earrings soon after, provided she hadn't already been painted over. The work, especially the female sketches variously dubbed "the painted lady" and "the lady," gained many admirers, including us, but the artist behind them managed to stay anonymous even as the sketches grew in number and reputation.