This week's line-up of shows is off the chain. From all-female shows to, well, all-male shows, get your drink/laugh on as I walk you through the best Toronto's vibrant comedy scene has to offer.

If there were standardized criteria for what makes for good street art, this impromptu update to Astral's much-criticized info pillars would probably win on all levels. Spotted near College and Bathurst by Scott Snider on his way to the No Pants Subway Ride (more on that tomorrow), the ad-heavy pillar now sports chalkboards on either side that invite those walking by to add some, well, info to this little bit of street furniture.

Toronto-based photographer Geoff Fitzgerald's solo show will be of interest to fans of large scale prints that depict sweeping skylines and landscapes. On now at Galleria 814, "Model Citizen," is composed of 10 images — five that capture the dramatic density of Manhattan from a bird's eye view and five that depict a sleepy Coney Island from the level of the street (or the boardwalk, as the case may be).

It's an interesting juxtaposition to be sure, gesturing to the many faces of New York and degree to which it's constructed by its depiction in photographs. It seems as though the series asks the question, what can we really know about this place, given its varied nature and the degree to which it has been fashioned out of image-heavy myths?

From a Kid In The Hall to comedians impersonating Canibus on a street corner in Harlem, Toronto's best laugh-makers are spitting hot fire. Here's what's worth getting out to see this week.

It seems only natural after his ballet debut at the Four Seasons in The Nutcracker that Rob Ford's name be attached to the other form of entertainment that takes place there, opera. While he won't be performing this time around, Toronto's mayor is the title character of an absurdist piece from Michael Albano, resident stage director of the Opera Training Programme at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music. Given the buzz that's already surrounding the production, I asked Albano to give me some background on the creation of Rob Ford: The Opera.

When I last wrote about Toronto photographer Jeff Harris, his self-portrait-a-day project had reached its 10th year and 3,653th photograph. His work was, by a landslide, the most interesting exhibit that I saw at the Contact festival that year. At once a strong collection of individual photographs and an exploration of the degree to which the archival record of our life and its so-called real world antecedent are complicatedly intertwined, it's easy to get lost scrolling through page after page of photographs on Harris's website.