Saturday is International Food Revolution Day. It's about real food that's locally sourced, sustainable, and delicious. And education. Sound like Jamie Oliver? Yup. He's the man behind the day. And Montreal is getting on the band wagon. Well, we were already on the band wagon. This is just an excuse to take the band wagon for a joyride this weekend. On the menu: food fests, bake sales, and raw vegan desserts with a side of yoga and ballet.

Why do I even write posts? A video like this one does a better job of getting bums in chairs at Montreal's upcoming Sketch Comedy Fest at Theatre Ste-Catherine. Stuff this video almost teaches you: 1. What a juicy stinger is 2. How to milk a delicious awkward silence 3. How to annoy French comfort food 4. How to steal lights from Centaur Theatre. All are clearly essential life skills.

Finally, we've got a track from Francouvertes winners, Mélanie and Stéphanie Boulay! The male contingent of the podcast don't know it, but I've somehow managed to turn this week's podcast into a female-dominated singer-songwriter show with a little rock and banjo to round things out. That's well-rounded, right? I mean, what else is there? Punk, hiphop, crunkcore, shranz, and epic doom metal? Maybe next week.

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If you listened to last week's podcast you maybe heard tell of a certain cake. This is that cake. It's a chocolate fudge cake layer, topped with a chocolate chip cookie dough layer, topped with a bittersweet chocolate layer, topped with a chocolate buttercream. I'll be honest, it took about 5 hours and a cycling of springform pans, but Jeremy, Theo and I enjoyed every last bite of this piece of heaven, after after the buttercream had turned to buttercream soup from being banged around on the back of my bike. Oh, and it's 100% gluten-free and dairy-free.

"Like our hometown, this magazine is an energetic, frustrating work in progress, the product of little triumphs and hard struggles," - Maisonneuve Staff. Like our hometown, and also like a lot of the authors, poets, and musicians who will read and/or perform at Maisy's 10th anniversary launch party at the Eastern Block this Thursday. For $7 you get to read about a young Arcade Fire losing a battle of the bands, Quebec's obsession with Iron Maiden, and tone deafness as investigated by a tone-deaf music lover. But wait! There's more! Indie idol, Lief Vollebekk, Governor General Award-winning author, Kathleen Winter; and MTL International Poetry Prize long-listed Lizy Mostowski will be there too.

2 questions: Why aren't pop-up supper clubs the thing to do in Montreal? And why aren't there more upscale Peruvian and Mexican places in Montreal? Yeah, ceviche is everywhere, but most of the cooks dicing up tuna tartar can't even pronounce "aji amarillo" ("ah-HEE ah-mah-REE-yo". There. Consider your life bettered). But this Saturday night you can head to Hit & Run Resto's $100 8-course dinner. Don't have the money? Me neither. So for everyone else I need your recommendations on the best Peruvian restaurants in the city to throwdown. Read on for the dinner party menu, throw down options, and to leave a comment.