Today in Toronto: Joan Rivers and Mellissa Fung

Joan Rivers Old, gifted and blacklisted (by Johnny Carson), Joan Rivers is a real Piece of Work, as seen in the terrific 2010 doc about her life. The comedian, who claims that only “the hooker on the corner” works harder, brings her raunchy act to the lecture series Unique Lives and Experiences. Find out more »

Mellissa Fung In 2008, the CBC journalist Mellissa Fung was kidnapped in Afghanistan and held for 28 days, often chained in a hole in the ground. Her new memoir Under an Afghan Sky deals with the ordeal, which she revisits here with Anna Maria Tremonti. Find out more »