While our own Jonathan Rothman has brought you an exciting compilation of music events in Toronto this long weekend there's one more party worth a mention. Saturday night Brassaii is officially launching their patio season with a sexy little jam that'll knock your socks off. If you made it out to the recent Contact Festival launch party hosted by the sexy crew at blogTO you'll know what a sweet spot it is.

Saturday night will bring together talented house music DJs JoJo Flores of Therapy and Nicolas Matar from Cielo in NYC. I heard Matar spin one night at this intimate club in the heart of the meat-packing district and you couldn't have pulled me out of there, and JoJo, well he's been bringing sexy beats to the Toronto scene for years. Together they'll be launching Cielo's newest CD Seventh Heaven.

In Toronto, as in all cities, there are two camps, those who care about architecture and those who don't notice a thing. Fortunately those who do care are a vocal bunch, whether blogging or putting the word out publicly. If you're the caring kind too there's a new place for you to make your opinion count. The Pug Awards (formerly the Pugly Awards but now with a cute little pug-faced icon) offers a slick new website where all of Toronto can get involved in the state of architecture by way of a vote. They post the latest building projects and you pick whether you think the design deserves FAME or SHAME. By June 6th votes are tallied for a celebrated best and worst of Toronto architecture list.

Not sure how to judge? The Pug Awards, now in its fifth year, offers up some advice to voting novices. In this competition originality is king - no more brick boxes - it's gotta have the fresh factor and add something to it's surroundings. Interaction at street level is also integral - who needs another condo with built-in strip mall?

It's not often Toronto's Terminal One at Pearson inspires me to break into song and dance. That might be different after watching Feist's new video My Moon My Man. Next time I find myself strolling down the moving sidewalks looking at our sparkling city under a full moon I don't know if I'll be able to hold back. I just hope there'll be a few others that join in.

As reported in blogTO's Morning Brew, a fire broke out early this morning tearing through several buildings at the entrance to historic Kensington Market. A friend who was passing by the corner of Baldwin and Spadina at the time (3:30am) told me that, even with 100 firefighters trying to contain the blaze, it seemed to spread rapidly through the roof and attic section the buildings share.

Dwight Drummond and the CityNews crew were there with the camera rolling as the 3 people trapped inside were rescued. It might've been a full twelve hours later when I got to the scene, but there were still plenty of firefighters, trucks and yellow tape. While they were still inspecting for clues, from what I overheard, they didn't suspect arson. Photos after the jump.

When the first cars hit the road in the early 1900's designs were built around electric motors, since then the gas guzzling combustion engine has taken over, contributing a tremendous amount of pollution at a big cost to everyone. It would seem to make sense then that we bring back the electric car. Well, in the 90's GM tried with their EV1, a zippy car that they leased to customers for 2 years at a time, but by the end of the decade the dream was lost, despite good publicity and high-demand. So what happened? Who killed it? Was it big business? Poor technology? The US government? Or the auto industry?

Who Killed The Electric Car? screened at Sundance and Tribeca last year, now it'll be screening at a cool cafe called Tinto tonight at 7PM on Roncesvalles. While this is the last of 4 documentaries in their program called Food, Fuel and Free Enterprise, if you like your coffee with a side of doc and some good conversation too there'll be more on the way. Tinto has free weekly screenings Wednesday nights.

Divine Styler, part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate, made big waves when he played Toronto back in the day. Now he's got Ryan Somers, aka Fritz tha Cat, to thank for a zine named after him and a book, In Search of ... Divine Styler, to be launched at The Drake Underground tomorrow night. Vice magazine - at one time as Canadian and underground as they come - said of Somers $40 start-up: "As far as underground mags in Canada goes, this is the shit".

Somers tells us the book is loaded with all the zines best bits: "phone sex interviews with horny rappers and ouija board interviews with dead rappers, and candy rappers and..." well, it's definitely about rappers. Mark McKay breaks down the details of the story of the man behind Divine Styler in this video. Tomorrow's romp at The Drake will feature the talent of rapper Fritz tha Cat, Buck 65, Druncnes Monster, Mindbender and Mackenzie.