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In Saturday’s edition of The Globe and Mail, (in the Globe T.O. section, natch), Sasha Chapman wrote about Slow Food Toronto’s latest coup: the “eco-gastronomic” organization had organized a sumptuous, Slow Food feast at Hart House, and the Ayatollah of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, was flying to our fair city—from Italy—to attend. But not everyone was equally impressed. In a letter to the editor in Monday's Globe and Mail, Kim Solga of London, Ontario, wrote: "According to Sasha Chapman, the Do It Slow Banchetto dinner 'is open to anyone with $150 to spare.' In other words: Slow-cooked, healthy, locally sourced food is available only to the wealthy among us. That's sustainability for you."

Dateline: February 12, 1954. An evening of one-act plays was presented at Hart House Theatre by students from three of the University of Toronto's colleges. Victoria was represented by a treatment of T.S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes, Trinity by Ferenc Molnar's Still Life, and St. Michael's by William Butler Yeats's Land of Heart's Desire. Once the performances were finished, the actors received feedback from an academic jury, led by a future Canadian literary icon.

Mark Bittman, a.k.a. The Minimalist, has built a career out of making home-cooking an accessible, manageable, enjoyable activity for those who feel too harried or busy to spend much time in the kitchen. It’s a noble project, one for which he has been winning widespread recognition. Bittman’s How to Cook Everything (just re-released in a tenth anniversary edition) is often described as The Joy of Cooking for a new generation: a single, comprehensive volume that puts a full repertoire of cooking essentials into terms beginners can understand and the more experienced find helpful in a pinch. Every Wednesday many of us turn to his column in the New York Times to learn how to whip up a quick meal, sometimes in less than five minutes. Bittman’s articles are often among the most emailed at the Times, and his story about making no-knead bread two years ago instantly became the stuff of cooking legend.

ART: Torontonian innovator Moses Znaimer is curating a new exhibit, "Im/AGE: From 'Bust' to 'Boom' to 'Zoom,'" launching today at the Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts. The exhibit is inspired by Znaimer's New Vision Of Aging for Canada. It aims to idealize his theory of the "zoomer," which is not actually slang for magic mushrooms, but rather a term describing a baby boomer with "zip,"...so, "zoomer." Sixteen artists will explore the question, "What does it mean to be one of the 14.5 million 45+ Canadians in Canada?" Among works from Jim Bourke, Joan Kaufman, and Joseph Muscat, Znaimer's exhibit will feature an installation from performance artist Faye Mullen entitled "here I lay," in which Mullen is naked the entire time, hell yeah appears nude, buried and planted in a shipping crate filled with peat moss, paying tribute to that decades-old theme of decay. If Moses Znaimer ever wanted to change his last name, it would be funny if he changed it to Zoomer. Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts (984 Queen Street West), 7–10 p.m., FREE.

DISCUSSION: If anything is going to force you to stop triple-flushing (we know it's sometimes necessary) when you next use the washroom, it's tonight's talk inspired by Coach House Books' latest publication, HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. Join in the debate about Toronto's past, present, and future relationships with water, before we sell it all to evil corporations and then have to battle against pirate armies with strange half-dreaded hair and football shoulder pads who will roam our privatized lake system, pillaging private vessels as they please. Hart House Debates Room (Hart House Circle, University of Toronto), 7–9 p.m., $5.

WORDS: Chris Carlsson, one of the founders of Critical Mass and the author of 2008's Nowtopia, is speaking this evening at CineCycle as part of Pages' This Is Not A Reading Series. He'll be discussing Nowtopia, which researches social challenges faced by outlaw bicyclists and others looking to get away from urban consumer lifestyles. Spacing's publisher and creative director Matthew Blackett will be interviewing Carlsson, and there will be an audience Q&A following the interview. CineCycle (in the alley behind 129 Spadina Avenue), 7:30 p.m., FREE.

DANCE: German electrohouse duo Booka Shade returns to Toronto for what will undoubtedly be a sweaty, sweaty dance party at CiRCA tonight. Hey, remember when CiRCA first opened and everyone was being all “Yeah right, I'm never going to CiRCA!"? Looks like the joke is on you, if you're a Booka Shade fan. CiRCA (126 John Street), 10 p.m., $18.50.

The organizers of Nuit Blanche held a launch event at OCAD this morning to announce this year’s curators—Wayne Baerwaldt, Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design; Dave Dyment, Director of Programming at Mercer Union, Toronto; Gordon Hatt, a writer and curator who lives in Kitchener; and Haema Sivanesan, Executive Director of Toronto’s South Asian Visual Arts Centre—and allow them to outline their individual visions for the event.

Have you ever wondered what you could learn from a computer pioneer? You'll have your chance to find out when Michael Dell rolls into town for a free speaking engagement at Convocation Hall later this month. Okay, so Dell isn't exactly a pioneer: he's famous not for inventing anything, but merely for improving the process of assembling a bunch of parts into a serviceable computer, shipping it somewhere, and making a boatload of money while causing relatively few fires and explosions along the way.

If you're up for a little subversion on Thursday night from 5–7 p.m., check out our old pal Fauxreel's talk, Resistance in the City, at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at U of T (7 Hart House Circle). Done in association with Signals in the Dark: Art in Shadow of War, an exhibition opening that evening, Fauxreel will "talk about his work as a street artist and give a mini-demo/workshop on techniques and tactics for transforming mass media into a critique of itself."

The Hidden Cameras are back home, and we are all better off for it.

Photo by afiler.

Photo of Ani DiFranco by Maria Bree. This week, our must-see show is Ani DiFranco at Music Hall Theatre. Having seen her in concert multiple times, Musicologist can vouch for the fact that the Righteous Babe is an amazing live musician. There seems to be some stigma about liking Ani, but don't fall victim to that or you'll be missing out. If you're looking for something free, Ottawa's Melissa Laveaux plays Hart House's Arbor...

Photo of Architecture in Helsinki by Zach Klein.

The bands for both the University of Toronto and Ryerson's frosh week concerts are all confirmed and good to go, and they're all extraordinarily excellent.

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

A survey by British research firm Skytrax has named Air Canada the best airline in North America. Travelers who have endured experienced the Air Canada business model of surly staff, vanishing meals, and rising fares will marvel at how low the bar for airline excellence on this continent has now been set.

Much like the budding romance between Hero and Claudio in the play itself, Wednesday night's open-air premiere of William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing was threatened by the malevolent influence of outside elements, in this case a light drizzle that foreshadowed an impending downpour.

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

It's likely that Google knows a fair bit about you. After all, they know where you live and where you want to go, help you find what you're searching for, read your email and your IMs, know what's on your calendar, moderate your discussion groups, and even scan your essays and spreadsheets.

This week our attention is almost completely owned by Cinematheque Ontario’s offerings, even with the thought of Christina Ricci chained to a radiator in Black Snake Moan grasping at us.

It’s fitting that Maggie MacDonald is one of four self-appointed prime ministers of the Republic of Safety. She’s a political and creative force, using art as her weapon of choice. Her current bands, The Hidden Cameras and the aforementioned Republic of Safety, are musical meeting points for sex and politics. She’s exhibited her visual art and had her comics published in The Globe and Mail and Lola magazine. When she was just 20, MacDonald ran a dynamic campaign as a provincial NDP candidate. Her writing, which has received accolades from none other than quintessential riot grrl Kathleen Hanna, includes a self-published magazine, the illustrated novel Kill The Robot and critically-acclaimed plays.

Fourteen women engineering students were killed because they were just that - women studying engineering. On December 6, 1989, an anti-feminist gunman entered l'École Polytechnique de Montréal and murdered them.

Apologies for the lack of listings last week. The combination of the previous night’s Halloween party and an encroaching deadline on another project left little time for me to gather all the literary happenings in the city.

Another day, another mayoral debate, and Torontoist was liveblogging it from University of Toronto's Hart House (See the Star's non-liveblogging take, as well). Kevin Clark crashed the debate, Pitfield wants to drop the voting age to 16, and all of the candidates debating agreed that landed immigrants should be allowed to vote in municipal elections.

In case you missed last night's candidates debate, then come to tonight's debate at Hart House on U of T campus at 6:30 pm. The listing on the Hart House website calls it a "Mayoral Debate with David Miller" but we're sure that Pitfield and LeDrew will be there, too.

No time…Must get back down to Harbourfront…IFOA in full swing…Here are some other literary events taking place this week….

Monday

Below, we've picked five "must see" events from Nuit Blanche's Zone A -- art events happening in and around Yorkville. All of the events we've picked run for the full 12 hours, so you can visit them at any point in the night.