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Last night, Teletoon's The Detour held a small event in the Royal Cinema to celebrate their upcoming fall lineup, showing a selection of the adult-orientated animation that will soon be on the channel. The lineup includes the long-overdue Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo (from the creators of Sealab 2021), Moral Orel (created by Mr. Show alumni, including Jay Johnston), and Metalocalypse, which was created by Brendon Small (who is best known for Home Movies) and Tommy Blacha (known from a variety of things including Da Ali G Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien).

Usually saying the words "short" and "sex" in the same sentence means that somebody had a bad night. Unless, that is, you're talking about Darryl's Hard Liquor And Porn Film Festival, a showcase for short movies about everyone's favourite late night activity.

In light of Montreal’s Fraser Hickon Library’s recent shutdown, it’s good to know Toronto’s own book havens are as strong as ever. On top of the newly introduced Museum and Arts Pass, the summer kids' programs and all the help the library gives to incoming immigrants looking to get familiar with the city, the Toronto Reference Library provides a varied wealth of hard-to-wrangle books along side wireless, air conditioned luxury. Now this oasis at Yonge and Bloor is turning 30 and wants to hear your stories.

Hopefully the success of the Dupont-Spadina message board that Torontoist previously reported on will spur some other neighbourhoods to have a go. In the meantime, with the original board filled to the brim, it's kindly been replaced by a fresh canvas. That's right—part deux is up and running, and it's another good medley of confessionals, illustrations, and generally happy springtime thoughts, save for the poor soul who was, shall we say, rooster-checked out of a potential late night tryst. You'll have to follow-up on that one in person. Also worth a look is an extended post from HiMY SYeD about a possible racial profiling incident that feels more immediate on bristol board than it might on a computer screen. And there's still plenty of room to add your two cents.

Shawarma is the new street meat. Both a late night favourite and a quick lunch classic, the Middle Eastern dish is now ubiquitous on the streets of Toronto. At its best, the vertically roasted meat in a pita, topped with veggies is damn tasty and, if not healthy, probably better for you than a sausage. At its worst, it's a mouthful of sawdust topped with rotten runny crap. Over the next few weeks, Torontoist will attempt to separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff and the tahini from the garlic mayonnaise.

For the last two years, Newmindspace have been planning their first massive park event. For those two years, they have resisted the call of grass, believing that parks are prisons for fun: designated "fun zones", the only public places where people are really allowed to play.

It's great when the Jazz Fest finally rolls around because it helps Torontoist justify paying all those banking fees. There are so many good shows that it'll be hard to catch them all, but hopefully this list will help you find your jazz beat. Aside from the acts listed below, music at 49 different venues around the city and the millions of tourist dollars the festival brings into the city, you can catch late night jam sessions every night at The Dominion and at The Rex. Don't forget about Stiffler's Mom either, they've got, um, a good rhythm section.

Someone please fire the marketing team at Landmark Building Group. The marketers at this developer's have come up with this painfully obnoxious video advertising their lofts. We've seen better acting and production from late night spots and these ads simply scream gentrification. The video touts the location of their project (right across from the Drake) and has one of the most asinine slogans we've seen in recent memories ("Are you on the list?"). It's a slogan that reminds us of power-tripping bouncers at overpriced clubs on Richmond Street. Just wait until all those yuppies move into the neighbourhood and start complaining about the noise that bars like the Drake and the Beaconsfield make.

Each of these exclamations could be questions due to their outright absurdity, don't you think?

Restaurants: Hero Comes to Save the Day

Even before the great Chuck D warned us not to believe the hype, there was an air of skepticism around the ME-dia's recommendations. The problems surrounding media hype, especially during festivals like CMW, is that most media outlets make it very clear which acts are worth seeing - and most people believe it. It doesn't sound like a problem, that is until no one can actually get in to see the bands that receive hype. Torontoist thinks this is fairly obvious, but is mentioning it anyway.

Lucky for us, Torontoist has had only good times at the trendy late night spot on Queen West. Open till 4am on weekends, it's a great place to stop in for a reliable meal or decent drink any time.