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For those of you who didn’t attend on Wednesday night, the news coming out of the Pontiac Quarterly is that founder Damian Rogers is leaving the poetry/prose/arts/music night. Liz Clayton is taking over organizing and hosting duties, with her first edition slated for October.

The Diamond Cherry Reading Series – run by local poets and small-press publishers Devon Gallant and Julie Cameron Gray – kicks-off the week with performances by audio poet Hilary Peach (Poems Only Dogs Can Hear) and singer/songwriter/poet Nik Beat. The series takes place each month at the Zemra Lounge – 778 St. Clair West – and starts at 8pm. It’s free, too, so you have no excuse not to go.

On Monday, a recent documentary entitled Les Chiefs, the debut film from local theatre director Jason Gileno, will be screening at the Pilot Tavern in Yorkville. It follows the semi-pro Laval Chiefs as they bash their way through a season in the rumblefish League d'hockey Semi-Professionnel de Quebec. Along the way, a group of feisty players like Mike Bajurny (whose penalty minutes-to-goals ratio in his three seasons with the Chiefs ran at 100:1) come in contact with a boxing promoter who pits player against player between the ropes for large sums of cash. The financially strapped young men, some of whom share a makeshift shanty room in the team's hockey arena, warm up to the idea and start to hone their off ice-punching skills, but as they contemplate the rewards of the boxing tournament's $20,000 purse, their parents, lovers and children anticipate more crippling outcomes.