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Glitz and glamour go hand in hand, but they are rarely accompanied by substance. Inside the ROM on Monday evening, however, the three coalesced in the third installment of the Munk Debates. Determined to offer a "substantive forum for leading thinkers to debate the major issues facing the world and Canada," the revered series has brought high-profile speakers such as Mia Farrow, Samantha Power, and Charles Krauthammer to Toronto to debate critical issues like the need for humanitarian intervention and the 2008 U.S. presidential election's effect on global security.

Sarah Lazarovic––curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada––is painting a portrait of a Torontonian (be they grannies or gardeners or Gord Perks) every day for one hundred days. Each Monday, we'll feature one of those portraits here.

I don't know, I only came close. I can at least tell you that practice has nothing to do with it. I'd practiced my speech a lot.

The Ontario Coalition For Social Justice and Make Poverty History believe there need not always be dissonance when electioneering and rock n' roll meet. This Monday's Vote Out Poverty gala at Massey Hall promises to be a "coming together of people from all walks of life and political allegiances gathering for an evening of entertainment united by a desire to reduce poverty in Ontario, Canada and the world," and will feature a multi-partisan mashup of songsters and speakers. Mary Walsh is hosting, Stephen Lewis is keynoting, George Stromboloupoulos is Stromboloupoulizing, and Susan Aglukark, The Nylons, The Hidden Cameras, and Blackie And The Rodeo Kings are folking and/or rocking.

Photos of trey anthony, Dawn Whitwell, and Gein Fence courtesy of Get Your Lit Out.

The atmosphere outside of the (Elgin and) Winter Garden Theatre last night was similar -- not quite the same, but similar -- to that of a rock concert. Various people stood in the cold, holding signs that said "Need One Ticket, PLEASE," while the large crowd jostled around three or four groups handing out flyers and pimping petitions. "Mary," yelled one woman, excitedly. "There's a petition to ban Styrofoam!"

Torontonians are, to say the least, an opinionated bunch. So instead of a simple "Best Of" list to cap 2006 off, the Torontoist staffers have racked their brains about everything (books, songs, restaurants, people, places, stores, newspapers, politicians, musicians, and a lot more) to bring you their choices for the very best and the very worst of our city this past year. It's Torontoist Love/Hate 2006, and you can find a new one every day at noon from December 26th until January 1st.

Not that any of you would care, but Stephen Lewis is the key note speaker at University of Toronto's Natural City Symposium tonight. Okay, maybe you do care, but you can't go because it's almost definitely sold out.

Canada's hardest working diplomat doesn't work for Foreign Affairs and he's never been thought of as a possible Liberal leadership candidate. Torontoist argues that that man is Stephen Lewis, former Ontario NDP leader and current UN envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. And lucky for you he's speaking for free at Ryerson (Jorgenson Hall, POD 250) tonight 6:00pm.

Although alcohol is most certainly the linchpin of a Queen's Players stage production, there's always a certain intrigue as to which direction the performance could take: There's the expletive heavy, smutastic performance where everyone onstage has a that warm liquored-up glow, or there's the embarrassing, you-should-go-home drunkies on stage. Either way, it's always been entertaining.

is expected to draw upwards of 10,000 fans, though less than 10 ticket holders admit to liking the Swollen Members. All proceeds go to HIV/AIDS charities such as The Stephen Lewis Foundation, The Teresa Group and Keep A Child Alive.