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FILM: The Eh!U Meet the Europeans European Film Festival, one of our favourite free film festivals of the year, begins today with a screening of award-winning Czech film The Karamazovs. Various local European consulates and cultural centres (representing a total of twenty-three European nations this year) have compiled a collection of current films not yet screened in Canada to introduce them to a Toronto audience. This year’s venues are the Bloor, the Royal, and the Varsity, screening a total of twenty-six different films. The festival continues to December 3. Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 6 p.m., FREE.

FILM: First Weekend Club, a non-profit Canadian organization dedicated to promotion of Canadian films in order to keep them in theatres longer, is hosting an advanced screening of RiP: A Remix Manifesto tonight in the Drake Underground. In the film, web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores copyrighting issues in the age of information, in particular through his study of musician Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk (also pictured above). Does Gillis shatter copyrighting boundaries through piracy, or will he create them? What does this mean for the future of the music industry? The pre-show wine reception kicks off at 7 p.m., followed by a screening of video mashup artist Jonathan McIntosh's latest film, So You Think You Can Be President. RiP will screen at 8 p.m., followed by a panel discussion featuring Gaylor himself, along with McIntosh, film distributor Robin Smith, and Marcus Bornfreund. Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen Street West), 7 p.m., $12 (Buy advance tickets here).

We've said it before: MuchMusic kinda sucks nowadays.

The above "Obey Spray" illustration is one of a series of Madvertisements (also featuring products such as "Empowermints" and conditions such as "Excessive Patriotism Disorder") by media tigress Carly Stasko, originally published in the January/February 2002 issue of This Magazine. Look familiar? Says Stasko of the "Obay" campaign for Ontario colleges, they're "so similar that I'm wondering if we just had the same idea or if they have riffed off of my original." (We think it's probably the former, but it wouldn't at all surprise us if someone at Smith Roberts had a subscription to This and has been storing the Madvertisements in his or her unconscious for years.) The photo, by the way, is a young Dave Meslin.

Toronto’s Small Press Book Fair runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Trinity St. Paul Centre, 427 Bloor Street West (just west of Spadina on the south side). Now in its twentieth year, the fair presents about 70 micro to medium-sized publishers and magazines. An archive of some of the fair's past and present exhibitors links to many of Toronto's small presses.

Now that National Poetry Month is over, it’s time to recover from the full schedule of festivities (spring detox cocktails, anyone?), and to share poems which garnered Honourable Mentions in Torontoist’s Toronto Poetry Contest. Watch out for five new Toronto poems and poets in May.

You still have a few hours left, but Torontoist's Poetry Contest closes tonight! At the beginning of the new year, Torontoist launched a poetry contest to encourage the penning of new poems about our fair city. After judges Carly Beath, Stephen Cain, and Jay MillAr deliberate, we'll announce the winner plus five honourable mentions on April 10.

Toronto writer Tanya Chapman’s debut novel, King, was recently released by Coach House Books. She’s an accomplished writer – her short story "Spring The Chick?" won This Magazine’s prestigious short story competition and she’s had two short films produced. Torontoist recently finished King and had the chance to ask Chapman about her work.

What started off as a magazine about education issues in Canada has gone on over the years to serve as a springboard for dozens of Canada's best journalists: people like Naomi Klein, Rick Salutin, Stan Persky, Margaret Atwood and others.

Emily Schultz, author of Joyland, former editor of Broken Pencil and This Magazine is looking for your pledges. No, this is not a PBS style pledge drive where you get a special gift when you show your support.

The Diamond Cherry Reading Series – run by local poets and small-press publishers Devon Gallant and Julie Cameron Gray – kicks-off the week with performances by audio poet Hilary Peach (Poems Only Dogs Can Hear) and singer/songwriter/poet Nik Beat. The series takes place each month at the Zemra Lounge – 778 St. Clair West – and starts at 8pm. It’s free, too, so you have no excuse not to go.

Tonight Pontiac Quarterly unleashes its second issue this year at The Drake Hotel (8pm). For those of you unfamiliar, PQ is a performance magazine where writers read their fiction, feature stories - even advice columns - on stage in front of a live audience. Coming around only four times a year (it's right there in the title!), The Torontoist looks forward to it like our mom looks forward to gardening season.

Canada's most confusingly named magazine launches their summer issue at the Cadillac Lounge tonight (1296 Queen Street W).

This Magazine Blog goes awesome on us, and delves into investigative journalism, with a simple phone call to the Office of the Ethics Commissioner. What happens when a scandal fades from front page news? Are the wheels of justice spinning unbeknowst? This Magazine calls the Office of the EC, and simply asks what's up with Sgro, Singh, Strippers and all that free pizza. Apparently, not much. TOist will be delving into investigative journalism soon too. Our first order of business - finding the seven people in the province who actually have WaPo subscriptions.