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Photo of the New Canadian Library edition of Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel by David Topping. Note spelling of "colors."

Torontoist is ahead of the game for previewing some of the best music choices this week (Queen West fire benefit, Forest City Lovers' CD release) but Musicologist will give you one more recommendation—just for kicks.

Eight months after Torontoist, Reading Toronto, Spacing, and BlogTO all banded together to solicit reader comments to improve the TTC's website and after Adam Giambrone agreed to re-open the Request for Proposal (RFP) to allow for "a more ambitious and exciting project," there has finally been some news to report of late. Last week, Adam Giambrone told Torontoist that the website would launch sometime in the fall, and would definitely feature everyone's top request––a trip planner. Yesterday, in the process of a godammed-extensive breakdown of his grievances, transit nut Joe Clark synthesized some details about the way that the TTC wants its new website to run. Plausibility aside, the TTC's wishlist for it's site designer gives us a look––albeit a very incomplete one––into the general idea of what we'll get come fall when the TTC's website fills our hearts with joy and delight.

Where can you find popcorn lovers and peaceniks together? At a politically conscious film fest—in a park, no less!

All photographs in this article courtesy of Much Music.

RISE/ABOVE at Dundas Street & University Avenue.

We don't normally care much for internet quizzes (nobody really cares what Sailor Moon character we are, right?). But today we caved when we saw one on Digg that piqued our interest: it claimed to be able to identify what kind of American accent we have. We thought it'd be fun, in an attempt to further explore that whole "we have no cultural identity of our own and are just like Americans in every single way" thing.

How is National Poetry Month treating you? On the second week of celebration, Torontoist is beginning to buckle a little under the strain of too much fun, but it warms our hearts to witness the large number of bookish events offered this April. We are happy to announce the winners of our poetry contest as part of the nationwide festivities.

One of Toronto’s newest literary series, Toronto Wordstage (which is run by Allan Briesmaster, John Calabro, Beatriz Hausner, and Lucianno Iacobelli) celebrates its 13th edition this evening with a stellar line-up of writers.

Evelyn Reese: lover, fighter, secretary. Adorned in a fox-fur and chain-smoking to boot, our dear Ms Reese really shines though with stories of her past loves, her family Christmas parties and her poofter friends. As she shimmies bow-legged across the stage, her pink-fluo shoes wobble along beside her, as if trailing a train-wrecked life.

Usually a monthly occurrence at the Drake Hotel, Neutrino has a basic premise with an interesting twist. Rather than doing improv in front of the audience, the troupe leaves the theatre equipped with a couple of video cameras and do the show from the streets of Toronto. As someone noted upon leaving, it makes you look at the area differently, knowing that they has just filmed on those steps, near that bush, in the tree...

Quimby Bird, a thief by trade, faces the parole board in an attempt to be set free in exchange for the location of the recently stolen Botticelli's . He takes us through the several characters who played a role in the heist which ultimately landed him in prison.

Torontoist should have been tipped off by the glowing reviews from "Larri King," "Dr. Pheel," and "Star Joynes" printed on the inside of the program... But regardless, with an hour to kill, was on the agenda.

If you're like Torontoist, you like to have a good time. You also like to save your money to be able to afford those aforementioned good times.

Sometimes, on Torontoist’s laziest days, it will drag itself out of bed just long enough to flick on the BBC’s 6 music internet radio service, the BBC’s gift to the world’s fans of British indie music, to listen to the 6 music breakfast show, which for ages was almost always preceded by a Don Letts introduction, (if it wasn’t someone doing a bad impression of David Bowie doing the intro.) Which, to be honest, is probably the most exposure Torontoist has had to Don Letts.