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On May 17th, 2005, ERA Architects held a fundraiser for Spacing Magazine and [murmur] in the Fermenting Cellar of the Distillery District. It was called Toronto the Good. Admission was on a $10-20 sliding scale, the bar was open, and the buffet was impressive. Will Munro and Christopher Thinn DJed. Torontoist did not attend but trusts the many accounts of others that it was a very good time.

Author/artist Douglas Coupland is in town Thursday at the Monte Clark Gallery for the opening of a new exhibition of collages, The Penguins. The promo material says, “This is one of several shows he has prepared (and is preparing) looking at the relationship between books and visual culture.”

Summer: the official season of barbecues, cottages and having a nice cold beer. To honour the finest microbrews in the GTA and Ontario, The Bar Towel is once again asking for the public to vote for the 2007 Golden Tap Awards and have a voice in who should go home with one of the eight coveted awards.

This Victoria Day weekend, two things will be on the minds of many Torontonians—beer and BBQ. The weather is good, you’re hanging with your friends, and you just want to kick back and chill with a cold one and a burger. You may have heard about what BBQing can do to your health and the environment, but let’s face it, it’s hard to resist the smoky aroma wafting from your neighbour’s backyard. Don't stress yourself about it—there are some eco-friendlier options when it comes to how you grill, and you can feel better about your BBQ by being choosy about what you grill. Plus, Toronto’s official BBQ season is quite short, leaving you plenty of time to "detox" and focus on healthier fare. That’s what we’re telling ourselves anyway.

Whether you're Scottish or not, it's always fun to celebrate Robbie Burns Day on January 25th. The day is to celebrate the life and death of Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland who wrote such ditties as Auld Lang Syne and Comin' Thro' the Rye, the poem which is said to have inspired J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. He is also known for drinking a lot and womanizing even more, and by the time he died at the ripe old age of 37 in 1796, he had fathered nine children.

This Thursday night brings the launch of Ninjalicious' 244 page book Access All Areas: a user's guide to the art of urban exploration. Unlike his zine Infiltration, which is full of anecdotal stories written by urban explorers from around the world, Access All Areas is an essential how-to guide to urban exploration.

There's no mention of what the films are about, the names of either, or what the entertainment entails, not to mention no one likes the real-reel pun. But the concept is there.

The actual difference between a normal photograph and a fisheye photograph essentially comes down to a 180-degree diagonal field of view that can produce a barrel-eye distortion picture. A less boring description might be that a fisheye photo is just a regular photo that got drunk. The finished product has dramatic depth to it, teetering from side-to-side and making you feel severely bug-eyed. But not everyone can master the fisheye approach. This month, you can test your fisheye capabilities with Pikto’s Fisheye View Contest. Pick up your fisheye camera for free (with deposit though) and spend a day taking fisheye’d pictures. The five best images win a fisheye camera and a chance to participate in the International Lomography Fisheye Competition. The top six images will be on display in the Distillery District Pikto store. Get your fisheye on before July 30 at building 59 – 103, 55 Mill Street.

Ear to the Ground is taking over the Gibsone Jessop Gallery in the Distillery District June 25th for Eyes to the Ground a night of shoegazer pop music. Proceeds from the night’s event will go to support the eagerly anticipated September independent arts festival.

Tonight, the Cold Reading Series holds a Christmas Cabaret fundraiser featuring performances by actor/musician Richard Greenblatt (on one piano with two hands), stand-up comic Marcia Johnson and blues bassist Gary Folka -- as well as some stellar cold readings. Tickets are $10 and the proceeds go to pay the entrance fee to the Fringe or Summerworks Festival for a deserving Cold Reading Series writer.

Just in time for the holidays, Toronto's Mill Street Brewery readies it’s tasty seasonal lager, Helles Bock. Starting in mid-November (like now or pretty close to now), Mill Street's holiday brew will make it’s yearly return to the downtown Toronto micro-brewery, joining Torontoist fav's Coffee Porter and Tankhouse Ale. Since the German-style beer only comes out once a year, Mill St. makes it just a little easier to suck back with a classic stubby bottle. And if stubbies aren't your thing, the brew will also be available in special 11.3L "keggies."