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The Scarborough Arts Council and The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College are doing something neat—they're recording podcasts about technology in front of a live studio audience.

In a recent argument in favour of the heritage value of the Sam's sign, the billboards in Yonge-Dundas Square were compared to "banner ad slots on a Web page" due to their ephemeral nature. Well, the same could be said of our cultural institutions.

"I’m going to Pakistan in November to share Q&A with young theatre artists during a festival celebrating Punjabi culture. I arrive on November 17. Look for more posts then."

If laughter is the best medicine, then Albert Nerenberg wants to take you to med school. The documentary filmmaker who has brought about such films as Stupidity and Escape To Canada has recently turned his camera lens towards laughter. And now, after all his research, he is teaching Advanced Laughter Workshops to show people how to laugh.

TO. Hogtown. The Queen City of Canada. The Centre of the Universe. Centennial City. All names applied to Toronto over the years.

It's 1:42 a.m. You're finally finished replying to e-mails.You settle down to continue that novel that you've been writing for, what, six, seven years now? But now you have a headache. The faucet is dripping and you can't concentrate. You eye the "To File" pile of papers on your desk and figure it wont hurt to make the stack smaller. By the time you're finished, it's pushing 3 a.m. and you didn't write a single line. Exhausted and irritated, you trudge to your room and tumble into bed next to your snoring partner, who can't fathom why you try writing in the wee hours of the morning.

One of the complaints of the Toronto arts scene is that it's far too downtown-centric. Yet interestingly many of its artists, and many many Torontonians actually come from and some still live in the suburbs. Couple this with the gentrification happening all over downtown Toronto and you can come to the conclusion that sooner or later artists will be priced out of their downtown live/work spaces and crappy basement apartments. This is what Brenda Goldstein, curator of the exhibit The Centre Cannot Hold argues. She's asked a number of Toronto artists (some urban, some not) to examine their vision of the suburbs. Pieces include Emily Hogg's Luis Vuitton/Highway Architecture mashup, Anthea Foyer's exploration of Rochdale and Lorraine Oades' tongue in cheek look at aging, modernism and the Garden City school of urbanism.

Those Wireless Toronto folks have struck again! The newest hotspot--which means free wifi--is in the Junction, at the Axis Gallery and Grill, a place with a great patio and a warm neighbourhood-y feel (3048 Dundas St. West).