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MUSIC: After the devastating cancellation of their show in 2003 (remember that SARS thing?), Billy Joel and Elton John will finally bring their Face 2 Face Tour to the Air Canada Centre tonight. The piano men, who last graced our city with their communal presence in 1995, will blow minds this evening with inevitable renditions of "Piano Man," "Philadelphia Freedom," and "Crocodile Rock." Mr. Joel and Mr. John will be playing a second date this Saturday, in case you can't make it out tonight. Air Canada Centre (200 Bay Street), 7:30 p.m., $70–$275.50.

This week's twitter inspiration via The Walrus.

FILM: BAFTA award-winning director Rex Bloomstein's new documentary, An Independent Mind, is having its North American premiere this evening at Innis Town Hall. The film investigates freedom of expression today, sixty years after its enshrinement in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The screening is presented by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression along with Hot Docs and The Walrus. After the film, there will be a panel discussion on the limits of free expression with John Miller, professor of journalism at Ryerson; Frank Addario, a media defense lawyer; Mary Deanne Shears, former managing editor of the Toronto Star, and Carol Off, who co-hosts CBC Radio One's As It Happens. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), 6:30 p.m., $10 ($8 for students).

Luminato is upon us, fair citizens. If you're wondering what to do, what to see, or what's Luminato?, Torontoist is here to play festival guide. We've randomly drawn carefully chosen ten must-not-miss events: one for each day of the city's massive annual "arts and creativity" smorgasbord, which runs from June 6–15. Our staff's picks are after the jump.

Photo by Lex in the City.

It’s often refreshing to hear an outsider’s point of view of your city. Sometimes they offer a new perspective on something so commonplace that you take it for granted. Or they can simply offer the expected platitudes. One writer, Olga Bonfiglio, who visited Toronto for the first time this holiday season, recently offered her take. She painted a very glowing picture of our city "as both a model and an inspiration for cities," and offered the usual outsider praise for our diversity and tolerance; the cleanliness of the streets; the low crime rate; and the "clean, safe, and efficient" transit system.

The Toronto International Film Festival Group announced their top ten Canadian features for 2007 last night, along with (for the first time) their top ten list of Canadian short films. The top ten Canadian features were: L’âge Des Ténèbres (Denys Arcand), Amal (Richie Mehta), Continental, Un Film Sans Fusil (Stéphane Lafleur), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg), Fugitive Pieces (Jeremy Podeswa) , My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin), A Promise To The Dead: The Exile Journey Of Ariel...

In 1969, during one of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's three visits to Ottawa, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan snuck into their hotel, tracked them down, and snagged an interview on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. (You can read a written account of the story here.) Years later, the audio has been set to animation and the result is a short film entitled "I Met The Walrus." It should be amazing, if the trailer is any indication.

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.

C Magazine has been around since 1984 and it’s got a new look thanks to Antonio de Luca, who happens to be the creative director of The Walrus. The quarterly, Canadian (Toronto-based) publication on international, contemporary art contains informative ARTicles that put Canadian art into an international context as well as bringing us updates on arts abroad.

For a fairly small media community we Torontonians aren't very nice to each other. Case in point is this recent article by DB Scott on his Canadian Magazines blog. Scott reports that the Walrus is losing staff again.

We here at Torontoist had a bit of a Sally Field moment when late last year the UTNE reader heaped praise on Toronto’s magazine scene, nominating Spacing, Shameless and the Walrus for the Alternative Press Award in the Best New Title category. Each magazine filled a much-needed void in the Canadian magazine industry and they still seem to be going strong. Shameless magazine just launched its third issue and doesn’t look like its losing its irreverence and sassiness. The latest issue has advice on surviving university, an interview with the over-achieving daughter of our "fifth greatest Canadian" and illustrator and snappy dresser Shary Boyle. The Walrus fired half its editorial board but doesn’t look like its going anywhere and the urban savvy elves at Spacing magazine are toiling away on another issue but what about some of Toronto’s other emerging publications?