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THEATRE: Theatrical art troupe Small Wooden Shoe, whose previous artistic installments have appeared at both the Harbourfront Centre and the Toronto Fringe Festival, will open their new show tonight at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Dedicated to the Revolutions will explore the effects of seven different scientific revolutions through the use of witty whiteboard presentations, clever songs, and other intriguing demonstrations. Dedicated will run five nights a week until April 12, and you can purchase advance tickets here. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander Street), 8 p.m., $15–25.

Photo by Sylvain Dumais from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Two of our contributors, Shari Kasman and Jenelle Rupchand, are all about arts & crafts this weekend. In this roundup, Shari brings you some of the many weekend fairs going on, while Jenelle's stocking up on some fair trade goods.

Contests! Glorious contests! Yet another one for all of you - this one's for two pairs of tickets to see The Constantines with Lullabye Arkestra and Shotgun & Jaybird at Lee's Palace on Friday December 1, 2006. The show's 19+, and tickets would normally put you out $17.50.

We're a little late with this week's music listing--blame the election! Er, okay, maybe someone just got immersed in learning a bit of Flash and let it slip. It won't happen again.

Rocktober is winding down to a close, but November, while not quite as wordlplay-friendly, isn't letting up one bit with the shows of rock. And while it's early, it's hard to imagine that the month will offer any bills quite as exhilarating as The Constantines and The Hold Steady at the Opera House on November 2.

There's a difference between celebrity-gawking locally (seeing P Diddy buying some clothes at Roots in Yorkville), and local celebrity-gawking (catching Stuart Berman eating a burrito at Bar Burrito). At Torontoist, we'd take the local celebs locally any night of the week. And last Friday - the Tangiers' CD release party at Lee's Palace - happened to be such a night.

retrospective offers some insight into how a small group of friends, musicians and artists opened up doors for great local music to be heard and appreciated all over the world.

Those wise sages at Loverboy know what they're talking about! Torontoist spent a good part of the week recovering from the amazing Wavelength Fifth Anniversary shows last weekend. This weekend seems to be just as packed with musical goodness.

Chalk it up to American Thanksgiving, or maybe the NHL lockout, or even Anna Nicole Smith's 37th birthday (today! all the best, Anna), but this weekend got really big all of a sudden.