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Whether we like it or not, some of us will be in Toronto all summer, with nary a trip or vacation elsewhere in sight. As a remedy, we've created Tourist. Every weekend morning of the summer, bright and early, we're featuring a photo (or two) from a globe-trotting photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Whether we like it or not, some of us will be in Toronto all summer, with nary a trip or vacation elsewhere in sight. As a remedy, we've created Tourist. Every weekend morning of the summer, bright and early, we're featuring a photo (or two) from a globe-trotting photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

According to the Inside the CBC blog and the National Post, Toronto's favourite boyish-looking provocateur, Avi Lewis, is back on the airwaves with his newest show, Frontline: USA. The show promises to "strip away the spin and highlight real issues such as poverty, violence, race, health, and immigration" in America. Considering that Lewis is involved and that the show airs on Al Jazeera English, chances are that Frontline: USA won't be a Dobbsian exercise in blaming America's problems on immigrants.

With Toronto in the midst of a nasty heat wave, this cooler beckoning walkers-by in Yorkville with "Free Water" seemed like a desert mirage. But sure enough, the lid pulled back to reveal perfectly-chilled bottled water care of The Body Clinic, a high-end spa and salon.

Well! Considering we got in so much trouble in the comments the last time we mentioned the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival 2007 in conjunction with zombies, we think this time we’re going to be really careful with what we say about the exciting news that George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead is to play this year’s Midnight Madness program. So all we'll say is that we think that’s going to be really good, and everyone involved in the production, even those who look like zombies, are truly beautiful and special people.

respect her if we get it. In other news, Jim Cuddy won the Juno for best adult alternative album, which means he did the best job of taking actual alternative music, dropping it to quarter-speed and setting it to acoustic guitar.

Jim Jones was not your typical self-proclaimed messiah. The man preached love for all races and classes, freedom of speech and socialism through Christianity. In 1978, Jones and more than 900 followers, known as Peoples Temple, moved from California to Guyana. They were going to build the ideal society. Dubbed Jonestown, after Jones himself, it was to be a utopia for the disenfranchised; a place where believers of all races and classes could lead self-sufficient lives as equals, far away from the oppression and immorality of the USA.

Yesterday, Jorge Garbajosa was named the Rookie of the Month for the NBA’s Eastern Conference, and he has been leading NBA.com’s unofficial Rookie of the Year Race for the past month. Garbajosa, however, is not a typical rookie; he doesn’t look like one and he doesn’t play like one.

police chief. Except for the corruption scandals and the racial profiling and the homophobia."

A man was stabbed to death in North York at a party celebrating Ghana's victory over the USA at the World Cup. Apparently gang colours may have been a trigger for the tragic attack.

This week in film we come to you first of all with news from the last week in film (uh…) Most of which we slightly embarrassingly forgot to mention, as it’s all good stuff.

The Bloor Cinema is heavy with festivals so shortly after the celebration of its 100th birthday, with The One-Minute Film and Video Festival starting tonight,as blogged below, and last night’s opening night gala of the Reel Asian Film Festival, The Motel.

So tonight is the big opening of the Festival, with certain sections of the city all abuzz with poseurs yammering into cell phones, except now not in Canadian accents! All the staff and hardworking volunteers will be hoping it all goes off without a hitch, terrified and excited at the thought of nearly two weeks of celebrities, parties, networking… oh, and films, I guess. The opening night Gala tonight is Deepak Mehta’s Water, a film shut down by Indian extremists, forcing the director to film the rest of her examination of ostracized Indian widows in Sri Lanka. Torontoist, naturally, doesn’t have tickets, and due to Ontario’s severe laws won’t be scoring any on eBay either, so we're here with a look at the Contemporary World Cinema and Reel to Reel programmes.

Canadian cities, this one included, seem defined by winter or at least the colder times of year. So when the sun and heat does arrive we are caught physically and psychologically off-guard.

Toronto city councillors don’t like graffiti. So what? Torontoist doesn’t like paying $2.50 to ride our underfunded and ailing transit system and we don’t like riding our bikes over the streets’ many exposed potholes. Oh, and we especially don’t like our city councillors deciding what does and does not constitute art. A new bylaw will require store owners to remove unsolicited graffiti from buildings within 72 hours of discovery by enforcement officers. If it’s not cleaned up the city has the right to enter on to the property and remove the graffiti at the owner’s expense.

behold the Disneyfied splendour of the newly-fronted St. Andrew's Meat Market! They've taken advantage of the city's new Commercial Industrial Facade Improvement Program, one designed to "improve the appearance of the front exterior facades of commercial buildings by redesign, renovation and restoration." We kinda liked the shabby old frontage of the little poultry market that could, but this reno isn't a tragedy of G-moon proportions. And the city's proferring of much-needed small business monies is welcome, though buildings can only apply for funds if they are "in designated areas covered by approved community improvement plans." The plan encourages better lighting, a dictate St. Andrew's has embraced with verve! What lighting! What beauty! And to think it's just a facade!

Le Drake hôtel a ouvert ses portes dans le quartier ouest de la rue Queen il y a environ un an. Pour ajouter à son style distinctif, les propriétaires du Drake se sont associés avec le magasin de jouets sexuels installé dans les mêmes environs depuis 1997, Come as you are (Venez tel quel), pour offrir à leur clientèle un service de chambre d’objets sexuels. Les clients peuvent alors commander pratiquement n’importe quel item disponible en magasin et le tout sera livré dans leur chambre en un clin d’œil. Les propriétaires du magasin Venez tel quel affirment d’ailleurs: « We're here to serve, literally.» Cette association a fait des ravages et on en a entendu parler dans le USA Today, CNN et même le New York Post. De quoi attirer beaucoup de curieux !