When pop legend Prince isn't fighting YouTube, fighting Radiohead, or fighting dancing babies, he's... writing books?

In 2007, Prince played an unprecedented 21 sold-out shows (each with an attendance of 20,000) in 21 straight nights in London, England. With the help of visuals by photographer Randee St. Nicolas, the legendary tour was well-documented, and Prince's first book 21 Nights will be available at the end of September.

To celebrate the legend, and the launch of the book, Purple Electricity will be having a party at Revival on Friday night.

Here's your chance to win a pair of tickets to the event, and a copy of the book (which features a bonus CD as well).

Spacing magazine launched a new issue dubbed "The People Issue" this week, which showcases many Torontonians doing extraordinary things.

One of the people in Toronto to show up to the party on Tuesday at the Canadian Corps legion hall was Olivia Chow, NDP MP for Trinity-Spadina (pictured above right with Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett and Laura Boudreau).

The magazine is chock full of great photos and stories of people who are shaping our city.

Inside the 64-page issue you'll discover a story about a guy who ensures turtle eggs hatch each year along the banks of the Humber River. There's a profile of Sunjye, the friendly neighbourhood rock balancing artist. And there's a cute piece about Alice, the backyard chicken farmer.

Dandyhorse, a new magazine devoted to Toronto on two wheels, kicked off last Thursday with a launch party at Cinecycle.

Inside Dandyhorse, you'll find a eulogy to Igor Kenk entitled "Rust in pieces, Igor." Other stories and features that include bike safety, bike fashion, cycling advocacy, couriers, BMXers and legal advice. The magazine is aimed at social riders, competitive racers, casual riders and regular commuters.

The magazine itself is 48 pages long in all its full-colour splendour, printed on Cascades Roland Enviro100, which uses 100 percent post consumer waste, is chlorine free and produced with biogas energy.

The party was a lively one. I've never seen the place so packed. Cheerleaders, dubbed Critical Sass (pictured below) that helped keep spirits up as the beer ran out early.

Believe it or not, beloved 70's stoner comedians Cheech & Chong are still keeping busy in their profession. In fact, they're about to kick off another North American tour and will be at Massey Hall on September 9th.

But before the comedy tour comes to Toronto, Tommy Chong (one half of the legendary bud-baked comedy duo) will be in Toronto to promote his newest effort - an autobiographical book Cheech & Chong: An Unauthorized Biography.

blogTO has three hardcover copies of the book to pass on to fans. Continue reading for full contest and event details.

In this edition of "10 things" we talk with David Silverberg, the extremely busy host of the monthly poetry slam at The Drake, about poetry, Mike Myers, basketball and the freelance lifestyle:

Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids (GRTTWAK) is happening again Monday night, so get out that old shoebox and get ready to share your treasures from childhood with a bar full of like-minded others at this open mic reading series.

The brainchild of Dan Misener, GRTTWAK enables us to take a nostalgic trip by delving into the often embarrassing bits of poetry and prose we wrote as kids.

Misener got an email a few weeks ago from his mom, saying, "Came across a Rubbermaid tote with an orange popple and more of your writings. The Ron Trilogy, Putrid Poems and some other poems."

Here's an example from Misener at age 11:

Little Jack Horner,
Sat in the corner,
Eating his purple pie.
He stuck in his thumb,
And pulled out a thing,
He couldn't identify.

Continue reading for more grownup fun and details of the evening's event...