This weekend, the Ex is once again hosting Toronto's popular Clothing Show, the retail sales event offering "the unique, the unusual, and the handcrafted" to the citizenry. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, this event has been taking in greater numbers over the years because of its talented pool of local designers. And though there's an increasing amount of lazily silk-screened American Apparel T-shirts being touted as "alternative" fashion, it's still the best place to get......

Readers in their thirties may remember Going Great: the Toronto-produced CBC/Cineworld newsmagazine targeted to kids. The series eventually folded after a few seasons wrestling the challenges of presenting newsy human-interest stories to kids, but it won a 1983 Children's Broadcast Institute Award for Best Network Television Program. What Going Great was most known for in later years, however, was its hosts. The entire run was helmed by Chris Makepeace, 1980s Meatballs and My Bodyguard teen......

Hmm, maybe the CBC finally came to its senses and realized that reality shows like the Dragon's Den and the One are about as good an idea as "Nuts and Gum". Well, the Ceeb has agreed to develop tv movies and mini-series based on works of Canadian literature. Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride, Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman and Barney's Version and Douglas Coupland's jPod are some of the books on deck for adaptation. Chances......

Theatre people often get a bum deal. Humiliating auditions, selling the car for acting classes or singing lessons or to fund a play, producing blood, sweat and tear-filled work and for what? To end up emotionally drained, penniless and with nothing but a collection of tap shoes and wigs to keep them warm at night? So is life on the stage. And, damn it, they deserve recognition for it. They got it last night......

We have to thank Sam Shepard for one thing. He's finally gotten us over Anne. In Shepard's 1983 motel play (what is it with this season and plays set in motels?), Fool for Love, former Green Gables girl Megan Follows performs wrenchingly well, as does her husband, Stuart Hughes. The couple plays an on-again-off-again couple with a dark and dirty secret, and they do so well. We could have done with less crawling, less slamming......