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Cabaret Mado celebrates 10 years of spectacular drag, Apollon goes big with Top 40 video, while GayBash throws a “Supermodel” party to thumb their noses at fashion. Consider your Thurs, Fri and Saturday nights set…

A decade in the print industry is like 30 years in the real world. In the 10 years since 2Bmag (which started as To Be in April, 2002), the GLBT landscape has metamorphosed from fringe to centre, with strides made in politics that no one ever thought would see the light. Join us to celebrate our 10th Anniversary Exhibit Opening and Panel on Wed. April 11, 5pm @ the Ecomusée du fier monde.

Headlining the ARTSIDA after-party Cause Célèbre on April 7 will take the mythically renowned Montréal DJ Robert de la Gauthier within blocks of his old stomping ground, Le Garage. We sat down to talk to the surprisingly wholesome alumnus of all the great nightspots on fame, his new Yoga Jam sessions, and the importance of staying underground…

The halls at Palais des congrès will be once again alive with the sound of relentless, pulsating bass & beats come this April 8 for the 18th edition of Montréal’s annual nod to all that is “white.” Just as any 18th birthday should be a mind-blowing/altering affair, Bal en Blanc gallops into maturity with an international melting pot of DJ veterans and newbies along with a state-of-the-art audio/visual experience for the 15,000+ usually in attendance.

On April 7 2012, AIDS Community Care Montreal (ACCM) will host the fourth edition of ARTSIDA, their extravagant art auction to benefit one of the few AIDS service organizations in Montréal to keep growing in recent years.

The annual art orgy that is the Festival international des films sur l’art (the FIFA) starts tonight, with a ten-day programme of over 200 films to stimulate and entrance Montréal’s art-lovers. Thankfully, our culture-hound staff distilled the most promising of the kaleidoscopic selection of documentaries, and narrowed it down to a LGBT-themed docs you won’t want to miss, covering everything from dance (Wayne McGregor), literature (Maugham, Genet) and that most cherished mass art-form, fashion (Givenchy!). More soon from FIFA’s 2012 selection…

From March 16 to 31, 2012, the Edgy Women Festival will take over a cluster of stages in Montréal. Now in its 19th year, the festival will be delivering inspiring and diverse performance art works at the Sala Rossa, Studio 303, la Centrale Galerie Powerhouse and the Royal Phoenix. Entre Elles sent Vanessa Girouard to interview the founder and curatorial doyenne, Miriam Ginestier.

Montréal folk signer/song-writer SIKA (Jessica Valmé) has been underground for months preparing for a multidisciplinary launch for her new album “Colour Your Walls” tonight (Mar 7) at Georges Laoun Opticien, 4012 rue St-Denis, 7pm. FREE.

Dr. Barry Adam has devoted his life to studying gay male sexual health, and the impact and understanding of HIV on our lives. He will close this year’s Concordia HIV/AIDS Lecture Series on Thursday, March 15, with the timely topic of “Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and HIV Risk” – Dr. Adams spoke with 2Bmag about his recent research and successfully avoided talking about THAT POSTER.

With the Flamingo Nightclub hosting Manila Luzon (tonight! Feb 23), Gloreebox bringing Frigid and Plastik Patrik to the Drugstore, and Saturday’s Nuit Blanche, this is one of those weekends that just won’t let you rest. Consider yourself warned: fun times ahead!