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Craig Silverman, author of "Regret the Error," has published his annual compendium of errors and corrections in global print and online media, and it's a doozy. Culprits are fairly evenly dispersed, with errors from America (Obama? Osama?), the UK, Australia and Russia all figuring prominently. But don't fear! Southern Ontario media did us proud by contributing their fair share. The Toronto Star makes the list—twice. And both about the happy subject of death!A Nov....

It’s the final day of the festival, which is always rather maudlin one—although for those of us who try to cover it, the festival is largely a far too hectic, busy period of time, once things start to slow down the sudden lack of pressure is terribly deflating. Never mind—we’ll have some wrap up coverage for you next week. Tonight’s closing gala is Emotional Arithmetic, reviewed by Jonathan Goldsbie at the very beginning of our TIFF 2007 coverage. He called it a “highly-polished drama” but noted that it “plays out exactly as one would expect and is only rarely revelatory.” Head along to Roy Thompson Hall tonight to catch your last glimpse of the glamour and pageantry of the festival.

No Film Friday again today, as we’re still too busy with the festival A few of the films that played at the festival are out already, with Neil Jordan’s The Brave One, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe all on general release. Not even new release Mr. Woodcock escapes a connection—it’s directed by Craig Gillespie, director of festival film Lars and the Real Girl.

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We’re pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with the Toronto International Film Festival Group to run a contest each day until the end of the festival for tickets to next-day screenings.

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No Film Friday today as we’re too busy with the festival, but we can let you know that this week sees releases of some pretty decent-sounding films: 3:10 to Yuma, Shoot ‘Em Up and Hatchet. Er, and also The Brothers Solomon, starring Will Arnett and directed by Bob Odenkirk but apparently dire. Let's Go To Prison wasn't great either. Sob.

It begins! Tonight the Toronto International Film Festival opens officially with Jeremy Podeswa’s Fugitive Pieces, so if you want to start soaking up the atmosphere of the festival head down to Roy Thompson Hall before 8 p.m.

In Craig Silverman’s most recent Globe Life blog entry, entitled "How to lose friends and make people hate you," (cute, but sounds familiar, doesn’t it?) he discusses a Harvard Business Review study about likeability in the workplace. According to the study, people won't want to work with you if you act smug, sarcastic, or bored or if you obsess over your own workload.

Toronto is a squirrelly place. Even the mascot for our 150th anniversary was Seskwee the Sesquicentennial Squirrel. The frolicsome animal is a rodent of the family Sciuridae. There are more than 250 types of squirrel, but in Toronto two kinds dominate: the American Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), and the Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). But what about our famous Black and White Squirrels, you ask?

Hunter S. Thompson is notorious for his alcohol abuse, his gun collection, and most importantly for developing a new style of journalism called Gonzo. This new style blended fact and fiction and often removed objectivity by placing the author in the starring role.

There was an unexpected windfall for Green P as a major dump of snow, along with high winds and freezing rain, turned much of the GTA into a parking lot during the evening commute yesterday. Apart from the traffic mayhem, fallen trees and power outages have also been a problem throughout the city. It sure looks pretty, though.

Who likes lists? Everybody! As we creep up on the new year, we thought we'd reflect on a few of our more popular (and our more controversial) posts of the past twelve months. Thanks to our revamped Favourites page, it's a little easier. If nothing else, this post will give you some reading material to glance over while you're busy getting spiffy for this fine evening.

Simon Houpt, New York correspondent for The Globe and Mail's Review section, is in town this evening to launch his new book with the help of This Is Not A Reading Series. Museum of The Missing: A History of Art Theft explores the shady and secretive world of art theft and chronicles “some of the most audacious and fascinating art heists of our times.” The book features a section entitled “Gallery of Missing Art” which focuses on stolen masterpieces. Houpt is more than qualified to write on the subject, having written about art and the auction world for a number of publications.

The Ryerson Review of Journalism is one of the most acclaimed magazines in the country – and it’s run entirely by the students of Ryerson University’s school of journalism. Running a national magazine is a costly endeavour, so to fill the coffers the RRJ is hosting a black-tie fundraiser this Tuesday night. It promises to be a good one.

As if Torontoist hasn't given you enough reasons to take a look at the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at The University of Toronto (Behnisch Architekten with architectsAlliance,) here is one more! The green building has now been shortlisted for the Lubetkin Prize by the (not to be confused with Interior Design magazine 'Architectural Digest')

It is with great sadness that Torontoist reports the death of Torontonian Jane Jacobs. The 89-year old writer and urban critic passed away this morning.

Happy Passover!

We realize that this is a rather unorthodox Baked Goods Review since, (a) Arnott's Tim Tams are packaged and store bought, not made with love at your local bakery, and (b) they are extremely difficult to locate within Toronto (if anyone has any leads, please do let us know). Tim Tams are a classic Australian treat, a chocolate covered chocolate cookie with a layer of chocolate in the middle. A beautiful thing, to put it mildly. Rumour has it that boxes of Tim Tams have occasionally been known to appear on the shelves of Dominion grocery stores, but a more reliable source is the good old internet. Great Aussie Food will ship the cookies right to your door. Delivery costs are on the steep side, but the Christmas-like joy of receiving cookies through the post makes it all worthwhile. And by the way, don't get sidetracked by wacky flavours like latte or black forest - anything other than Original or Classic Dark is a waste of time.

Seems like it's just bad news piled upon bad news for the city's small theatres this fall...

Last month I wrote many nice things about VIVA. Last week, after missing the GO Bus from Markham to Toronto by seconds, I decided that it was a good opportunity to take an impromptu test ride on VIVA. I feel as though I may have been taken a little (not a lot) by the initial VIVA hype.

Ever since the 1950’s, rock’n’roll and meat have become one in the same. They ceased to be distinct entities with the advent of Americana diners and the popularity of rotund musicians like Fats Domino and later Elvis, and haven't separated themselves since. By the 1970’s, rock’n’roll actually became a meal.

A far superior companion to yesterday's Fresh Wednesday post, today is Tasty Thursday. For a measly five bux or less, your lunch can consist of "delicious food at great prices and free noon hour concerts." Lots of restaurants, like the Real Jerk and Le Commensal Fine Vegetarian Cuisine, can be had whilst listening to the sweet sounds of live music like Andy Stochansky and The Truths & Rights Reggae Review. Our advice: go for the fresh veggies on Wednesday and be a piggie on Thursday. At Nathan Phillips Square from noon till 2 PM, from today until August 25. Oink.

For theatre in Toronto, anyway. Houses have reportedly been weak for World Stage: Flying Solo, leading the festival to offer reduced-price tickets to TAPA members. The Seven Lives of Simon Labrosse, a Carole Frechette play that Torontoist actually likes (don't get us started on Helen's Necklace), has been playing to underwhelming houses (except for the night the Governor General dropped by last week). And the cast of The Confessions of Punch and Judy has been dismayed by the lack of reservations for the rest of the shows run... And these are only the woes that have reached Torontoist's ears.

Today's article in the Globe Review about David Macfarlane was probably intended to tell us new and exciting things about David Macfarlane. But TOist couldn't get past the giant picture of David Macfarlane and his city-issue bike post, a prop in his latest play. You see, for years we've lost sleep at night wondering about the validity of a rumour that we've not been able to confirm or disconfirm via snopes: Did NDP mustache Jack Layton invent those circular bike nubs? Is Layton our localized Internet-inventing Al Gore? Or is it all just an urban myth, repeated groundlessly each time we match kryptonite to concrete? We were going to shout out our query when Jack passed us by at this weekend's College Street processional, but didn't want to disturb the concentration of the thirty-odd, elderly Portuguese men that surrounded us. Any information pertaining to Layton's inventing gene most welcome! We find it hard to believe that Jack has extra time to divert to such endeavours, but he does find time to meticulously groom that stache, so anything's possible.

We were shaking our heads in disappointment when Mayor Miller announced that the city would support empowerment of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp. (TWRC), but only if he was placed on its board- a familiar story of bureaucratic stalemate. The recent announcement of the Waterfront Design Review Panel, however, is surely a sign of hope in repairing this city's post-war urban planning faux pas.

Who loves Alice more? CBC Schoolmarm Shelagh Rogers had wanted to interview Alice Munro for seventeen years before she got the chance to fawn over the Gilleress last week. And spectacled Jonathan Franzen made a spectacle of his love for Alice in the pages of the Times Book Review yesterday. Torontoist hasn't read Runaway yet, but we listened to a lively Talking Books panel on the work, one in which New Yorker Adam Gopnik used the word 'expatriated' with such frequency that we had to wonder if he was launching a campaign to bring greater popularity to the unruly term. As for Alice, we're happy for her. We hope she wins the Nobel. We like grand dames who wear sunglasses indoors. But we also really like the BlackBook Mag challenge, the one where they ask readers to put people in the ring together (the interview ring, that is). We'd like to see Franzen and Rogers duke it out. Alice proclaims the victor.