This week the Hot Docs box office has opened, and with luck we’ll soon have some early coverage of our picks of the festival to help you with your ticket buying decisions, advising you to find 37 uses for a dead sheep, perhaps? Of course, if the schedule has got you all fired up for some documentaries, this week Cinematheque Ontario is exploring the documentary films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the first North American......

The Beatles 1964 album Beatles For Sale is no longer simply an album but a way of life. On Dec. 15, rare and not-so-rare Beatles memorabilia goes on the auction block in Toronto. Canadian auction house Empire Auctions will offer a 45 of the single "Love Me Do" with the red-and-silver Parlophone label, Yellow Submarine artwork from animation artist Ron Campbell, and nine other early Beatles singles. Among the other items up for grabs, there's......