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Beginning Wednesday, the newest "librarians-in-residence" at the Toronto Free Library will be the conceptual comedy duo Life of a Craphead (Amy Lam and Jon McCurley). These are the guys responsible for installing the most remote Queen Video location ever at the Leslie Spit (near the lighthouse, where someone actually went to rent Y Tu Mama Tambien). They've also erected a giant exploding paper-mache volcano at Trinity Bellwoods and carved out rumble strips on Yonge Street to create a "Musical Road" near Sam the Record Man.

When trying to solve the problem of the lack of affordable housing, the thinkers and planners and innovators and design enthusiasts come up with some pretty creative ideas. Like the IKEA House, for example, or the notion of shipping container architecture. A group of Toronto activists are proposing a "use it or lose it" bylaw "that would see vacant and underutilized buildings and spaces expropriated by the City and redeveloped as badly needed affordable housing and social centres."

The Gallerist is Torontoist's new bi-weekly arts listings. Starting January 31st, check back every other Wednesday for a new batch of events.

Tonight, the Toronto Public Space Committee's Streets to Screens series wraps up with a screening of Ron Mann's Rochdale College doc Dream Tower:

Tonight, the Toronto Public Space Committee presents the fifth of six films screening at the Bloor Cinema as part of its ongoing Streets to Screens fundraising film series (which also includes monthly screenings of public space-themed NFB shorts at the Toronto Free Gallery).

The subject on everyone's mind at Spacing this morning is Regent Park's revitalization project. Our favourite public space newswire will be featuring a series of documentaries on YouTube called Regent Park TV, a project by the Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre. The Toronto Public Space Committee will be screening another series on Regent Park at the Toronto Free Gallery on Thursday, December 14 @ 7:30.

This week Torontoist presents extended literary event listings – you get till Sunday the 27th at no additional cost – as I’m out of town until the end of August.

Torontoist is telling you to ignore the confusing name for this event and instead focus on the fact that it looks like it'll be a fun and fashionable evening. The Terminus 1525 sponsored I Am A Wild Party is being held at the Toronto Free Gallery tomorrow night which pretty much guarantees that it'll be fun.

That's the question that Broken Pencil asks in its latest issue, which they're launching tonight, 7pm at the Toronto Free Gallery.

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.

Torontoist wants all of you to take a deep breath and relax. We also think you should go see the opening of The Cult of Speed Meets The Slow Movement at Toronto Free Gallery tonight 8-10pm (660 Queen E.). The group show features work from artists such as Franco DeFrancesca, Fran Freeman, Brenda Goldstein all on the theme of slowness in contemporary society.

A few reasons why you should check out In Transit, opening tonight at the Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen St. E.)

Is transit in Toronto on the upswing for 2006? A few weeks ago an eye weekly editorial admits "the TTC is getting better", and several upcoming events and publications by the usual suspects promise more transit celebration:

Tall Poppy Interview: Gayla Trail, author/photographer, You Grow Girl

The Tall Poppy Interview - Rannie Turingan, Photojunkie

And tomorrow a show featuring work by both Rannie and Sam, and a handful of other awesome local shootfromthehippers, will open for a five week run at the Toronto Free Gallery. The exhibit is all about "examining Toronto's urban landscape and public spaces as captured by the city's top photobloggers," and there's a launch party on Thursday too.