When New York City billionaire Leona Helmsley died in 2007, who inherited her $12-million trust fund? If you said a white Maltese terrier named Trouble, you may want to tune in to CBC television at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20th for Test the Nation: Trivia. The quiz show, now in its third edition, pits in-audience teams against each other while viewers at home can play along via the interweb. Later, the national quiz......

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.......

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. Eh, this is boring. And we have ten million other important things......

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending a......

The ongoing investigation of a crooked optician’s shop by consumer complaints reporter Peter "Watch it, Buddy!" Silverman of CityTV’s Silverman Helps has ended in a spectacular dust-up. According to CityNews, the owner of King West Opticians, Adam Plimmer, physically attacked Silverman then locked himself inside his shop in a standoff until he was eventually arrested by the police and charged with assault and assault with a weapon. The sensational footage (released by CityNews to YouTube,......

Fresh from their holiday break, the fine folks at This Is Not A Reading Series kick off the Winter/Spring 2007 season with…a film? Well, partly. This evening, join TINARS at the Royal Cinema as they celebrate the launch of Annabelle Gurwitch’s new book, Fired! Tales of The Canned, Canceled, Downsized & Dismissed. As the title would suggest, the book is comprised of tales of getting the axe from a host of contributors, from Bill Maher......

So, we’ve been busy enough with Hot Docs to almost forget that they, you know, are releasing films which aren’t documentaries this week (madness!) Indeed, craziness of craziness, they’re even holding other festivals this week! So we’d feel terrible if we forgot to mention the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, opening tomorrow night with a showing of Jesus is Magic, Sarah Silverman’s concert film which, to our memory, did rather well as a Midnight Madness showing......

So many films, so few words. Everything is Illuminated: Surprisingly good adaptation from Henry V (Liev Shrieber) of J Safran Foer's magical novel. The decision to drop the surreal bits works out, and Eugene Hutz (of the Balkan punk band Gogol Bordello) is terrific as the malapropist Alexander Perchov. But go for the soundtrack which features Hutz' Gogol Bordello, The terrific Balkan Brass band Kocani Orkestar, Tin Hat Trio and guitar work by the amazing......

As the Boy Reporter reported last week, The Scream Literary Festival is in our parks and hearts right now. Though a lot of good reads are still to come, roving Torontoist contributor Stephanie Silverman pokes us with this review of last Saturday night at the Press Club: I went to this event expecting nothing. Or at least, a whole lot of well-executed nothing that would result in a big spontaneous something. Barring that, I......

Get it? Like PoliSci. Except instead of exploring the dynamics of Canadian political discourse, PoliTurbo (excuse me, POLITURBO!) aims to instruct on the science of hip hop, soul, 2 step-soul, new wave, 80's, dance, punk, pop, brokenbeat, drum'n'bass and all sorts of other material. The twice-a-month DJ event at Tilt Lounge (669 College) includes Sean Roman, Paul Egan and SJ Silverman in a rotating DJ chair. Electroclash is karaoke too.......

Torontoist friend Stephanie Silverman reports: The author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms and a renegade at the heart of most Left-ist causes since Partition, the intellectual Tariq Ali was in Toronto as part of a recent speaking tour, and delivered quite the bang for the sliding scale buck. Last Saturday night, the Medical Sciences auditorium at the University of Toronto was THE place to be for anyone worth their Rabble.ca. After three or four of......