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Photo by David Spigolon.

According to the Inside the CBC blog and the National Post, Toronto's favourite boyish-looking provocateur, Avi Lewis, is back on the airwaves with his newest show, Frontline: USA. The show promises to "strip away the spin and highlight real issues such as poverty, violence, race, health, and immigration" in America. Considering that Lewis is involved and that the show airs on Al Jazeera English, chances are that Frontline: USA won't be a Dobbsian exercise in blaming America's problems on immigrants.

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When Larry LeBlanc of Billboard sent us a letter written by Canadian music megaproducer Bob Ezrin, we were intrigued. With the possible exception of new superpower Steve Jobs, the music industry has been circling the drain in recent years, temporarily jamming the flow with the barely-explored careers of too many worthy artists. Bob Ezrin has been there and seen it all, and he's got something to say about it.

Sad news from New Orleans, where during a recent spate of violence one of the victims was Helen Hill, filmmaker and animation teacher who worked for many years in the Halifax scene and the Atlantic co-op, and friend of many in Toronto's indie film.

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa...

We love Word on the Street but we always find there's way too much to do. So we've scoured the WOTS program and picked out the three things that you should try to hit up this Sunday at Queen's Park. Best of all, the whole event is free.

Unlike usual, this isn't a post about a single programme at TIFF, but we’re going to let this one slip by as it used to be the Planet Africa programme, and the selection is really, really good this year.

Katrina Onstad and Leah McLaren aren't the only female Toronto journalists penning autobiographically inspired works of literature. The insightful Lynn Crosbie is releasing her much anticipated new book Liar. Excerpts that Torontoist has read left us thinking about our own failed relationships, on the nature of love, betrayal and the cruelties that men and women inflict on each other. Perfect when you're sick and tired of watching cheesy rom-coms. The inspiration for this heavy new work is apparently a fellow poet and editor who Torontoist thinks might have a hard time getting dates in the next few years.

Queen or Leah McLaren? Tonight, McLaren will be sharing the stage at the Gladstone with Katrina Onstad. Canada AM's Seamus O'Regan might want to wear a black and white ref's jersey just in case a fight breaks out between the two of them, seeing how Onstad makes not so veiled insults at McLaren in her new book.

, has very little syrup for the pancakes, so to speak.

Number of people shouting 'Do It' at the Leafs, as the Sens beat the Leafs on Wednesday, at the Monarch Pub: 36

and this promises to be a helluva to-do. Victoria's Immaculate Machine are also on the bill, which has an early start time of 6:30PM.

Tall Poppy Interview - Davy Rothbart

- Adam Nayman slaughters Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown on the Eyeblog. It's a rough cut, but the trailers (and Kirsten Dunst in a beret) have been scary enough.

Toronto photographer Yuri Dojc is among handfuls of TO Flickr members putting up photos for auction. Sales of these photos will go towards relief efforts in full. TOist contributor Photojunkie is making likewise efforts, as are hundreds of other Flickr photogs. For those of us who can't spring for a $1000 print, however great the cause, Dojc will be selling $25 posters, with 100% of profits going towards Katrina victims. Good to see everyone mobilizing so quickly.

Like anyone else, Torontoist can't help but be occasionally overwhelmed by the traumatic events in other areas of the world. This week is obviously one of those occasions. Our thoughts are in Louisiana.

After the chaos caused by last week's storm (like flooding on the DVP and this doozy on Finch Ave.) maybe we might want to pay attention to the fact that the remnants of Huricanne Katrina might be hitting Toronto later this week. While Katrina probably won't be anything like Hazel she'll still pack a punch.

A lot happened at last night's ceremonies, and, for the most part, Torontoist couldn't care less. Make note, that's "couldn't care less" not "could care less." Links include:

It's finally here. The revamped national arts and culture multimedia portal we've been waiting for...CBC Arts. While TOist hasn't actually been losing sleep anticipating the debut of the revamped site, we have been eagerly awaiting its unveiling. We had an inkling of what it might look like, because our own debut interview, Antony Hare, had some CBC arts portal designs up on his site. But we quickly brushed what we'd seen from our mind, wanting to see the whole thing properly done up with real copy.