In your 20s and stressed about life? Frustrated because your job sucks and all your friends are better off than you are? Wondering why you spent four years earning a degree that gets you nowhere you want to go? Congratulations – you’re having a quarter-life crisis!

If you need to laugh, you’re in luck. As always, there’s a huge contingent of comedy talent at this year’s Fringe.

Not all Fringe applause comes from audiences and reviewers once a show’s opened. Most Fringe shows are chosen by lottery, but the festival also holds an annual new play contest, whose winner gets a slot in the fest and production funding from Exclamation Productions and macIDeas.

The Fringe never fails to premiere some first-rate scripts (as well as a few that won’t and probably shouldn’t survive after the festival closes).

Rap fest Rock The Bells touches down Sunday with a lineup that’s tighter than Brüno’s lederhosen. In addition to the reunited Reflection Eternal, the back-in-business EPMD, Wu-Tang queen bee the RZA, hip-hop supergroup Slaughterhouse, deepest voice in rap Chali 2na and hosts KRS-One and Pete Rock, this year’s RTB boasts some major headliners. Here’s a breakdown of the big three.

I read about chef Jamie Kennedy possibly going broke in the front-page news (not a bad profile for someone who’s not a banker or carmaker getting bailed out) at the same time that I got an invite to see the preview of Food, Inc., a doc by Robert Kenner.

Though we’ve got a House of Chan, a House of Prayer and even a House of Upholstery, until three weeks ago Toronto had never been home to a House of Poutine.