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ART: Torontonian innovator Moses Znaimer is curating a new exhibit, "Im/AGE: From 'Bust' to 'Boom' to 'Zoom,'" launching today at the Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts. The exhibit is inspired by Znaimer's New Vision Of Aging for Canada. It aims to idealize his theory of the "zoomer," which is not actually slang for magic mushrooms, but rather a term describing a baby boomer with "zip,"...so, "zoomer." Sixteen artists will explore the question, "What does it mean to be one of the 14.5 million 45+ Canadians in Canada?" Among works from Jim Bourke, Joan Kaufman, and Joseph Muscat, Znaimer's exhibit will feature an installation from performance artist Faye Mullen entitled "here I lay," in which Mullen is naked the entire time, hell yeah appears nude, buried and planted in a shipping crate filled with peat moss, paying tribute to that decades-old theme of decay. If Moses Znaimer ever wanted to change his last name, it would be funny if he changed it to Zoomer. Propeller Centre For The Visual Arts (984 Queen Street West), 7–10 p.m., FREE.

In a somewhat likely yet technologically backwards media foray, television wizard Moses Znaimer is once again putting pornography where it is least expected—on an oldies AM radio station. Certainly no stranger to media in this city (having, of course, co-founded both Citytv and Muchmusic), Znaimer first made the prudish amongst us squirm in the 1970s, when the mild-by-porn-industry/filthy-by-broadcasting-standards Baby Blue movies became a regular part of Citytv's Friday night programming. Chugging right along into the, er, analog age, Znaimer's latest (supposedly) groundbreaking initiative is Midnight Blue, "the first-ever, R-rated, late-night radio show," according to Karen Lin, communications associate for Znaimer's Zoomer Media. "There is no other show like it." Airing on the New AM 740 (acquired and renamed Zoomer Radio by Znaimer in the spring of 2008) from Monday to Thursday at the apparently no-holds-barred time slot of—you guessed it—midnight, Midnight Blue is a collection of sexy, sexy songs intended to appeal to the Zoomers. An actual term coined by gerontologist David Demko to describe "a baby boomer who leads an active, adventurous lifestyle," the Zoomers are the demographic that Zniamer counts as his peers (and, fingers crossed, sure financial bets), and they make up the New AM 740 audience.