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Sometimes you just gotta sit down over burgers and fries with people who don't seem to even really get how talented they are. We did this recently with Katie Crown, Sara Hennessy, Nick Flanagan, and Chris Locke at the Rivoli, home of the weekly comedy series Laugh Sabbath, in which the four are regulars; we were also joined by Laugh Sabbath's producer and publicist, Leslie Aimée Gottlieb. The series celebrates its three-year anniversary this Sunday night with a special show hosted by The Flirts and featuring musical performances by Greg Alsop and Dave Monks of Tokyo Police Club.

Toronto funnymen Aaron Eves and Chris Locke, hosts of the monthly variety show Let's Get Hot!, celebrate their linen and silk anniversary (that's four years, people) as a duo tonight at the Rivoli, home to the popular weekend-capping comedy series Laugh Sabbath. LGH virgins can expect a lineup of the city's finest comics sandwiched between Eves and Locke's cry-laugh inducing performances. "Aaron and I always got along jokewise," says Locke. "At first we thought of doing a talk show where he’d be my sidekick, like Paul Shaffer. Or, you know, like in Return of the Jedi when Jabba the Hutt has that screaming gremlin." Eves adds, "And we wanted our audience to be chained women in gold bikinis."

ART: Tonight, the Liberty Grand hosts the opening night preview for Artist Project Toronto. In addition to bringing together works by close to one-hundred-and-fifty artists, this year's exhibition also features a series of enlightening seminars, a contest for up-and-coming artists, and a chocolate competition (in which artists create works based on the theme of, you guessed it, chocolate!). A portion of the opening-night proceeds will go to charity, and an after party is slated for the Drake Hotel. The show runs to March 8, with various hours and ticket prices; see their website for full details. The Liberty Grand (25 British Columbia Road), 7–10 p.m., $25.

              

If you're into Feist, chances are you were at Saturday's sold-out show at Massey Hall, stink-eyeing anyone bragging within earshot about getting into last week's much smaller and much secret-er show at Cameron House. Like we said, we didn’t get in either (nor did we get into her impromptu show at Rivoli, but since that’s like quadruple the capacity, it's quadrupley less interesting). BUT! we did manage to track down one of the 50-odd people who witnessed this supposed fairytale magic that was the tiny little Queen West one-off, a Torontoist reader named Michelle who would like her last name to remain sexily mysterious. And that suits us just fine, so long as we get to share her pretty pictures and video, and a little firsthand commentary.

FILM: For the ninth year in a row, the imagineNATIVE film festival will feature videos and films by indigenous artists, alongside exhibitions and workshops voicing stories of survival and identity. You may have noticed their Indian Jane posters around—the festival's annual marketing campaigns cleverly deconstruct Hollywood stereotypes of natives (we've been informed that the awesome scene in Temple of Doom where the guy gets his heart ripped out didn't actually happen...sigh). Various locations, runs October 15–19. Tickets start at $7.

We're a month away from Labour Day weekend, and that means it’s almost time for this year’s 3 Day Novel Contest.