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Blog Sexism sells on the CBC

In patterning with the “girl talk” sports show While The Men Watch, Hockey Night In Canada has taken an appallingly retrograde turn.

May 25, 2012 | 12:10pm -
Review Cavalia’s horsey spectacular Odysseo

This highbrow Medieval Times is pure horse kitsch.

May 24, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Preview Berenice Abbott exhibit arrives in changing Toronto

Urban photography exhibit creates conversation with a city going through its own transition.

May 23, 2012 | 12:30pm -
Local Newswire TIFF to launch a touring David Cronenberg exhibition

Long live the new flesh, and all that.

May 23, 2012 | 11:55am -
Newswire Peter Gabriel to tour, do that thing where an artist plays a whole album live

According to Stereogum, singer-songwriter-flautist Peter Gabriel is coming to North America this fall, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his 1986 album So.

May 22, 2012 | 1:05pm -
Newswire The Xx plots lengthy European festival tour, with brief North American interlude

Expect “club music.”

May 22, 2012 | 11:15am -
Interview Teen Daze

We talk to the pride of the Fraser Valley about getting outside of B.C. and the crisis of Vancouver’s music culture.

May 22, 2012 | 10:55am -
Inventory The Brady Nod: 18-plus works of fictional art that don’t live up to their billing

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

May 21, 2012 | 12:00am -
Playlisted Ryan Hemsworth

We talk to the insanely productive Haligonian producer about what he’s listening to.

May 18, 2012 | 12:30pm -
Canuckbusters Gunless (2010)

Paul Gross plays an American gunslinger stuck in the North, this week on Premise Beach.

May 18, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview JD Era

We talk to the Mississauga rapper about getting signed by Raekwon and living in Toronto’s hip-hop moment.

May 17, 2012 | 12:30pm -
Roll Call The A.V. Club’s guide to Toronto’s crappiest patios

Why futz around with overcrowded shady alfresco spaces when you can grab a rain-wet table at one of these joints?

May 17, 2012 | 12:00am -
Recap Shadow Of A Doubt master class with Guillermo Del Toro

The Mexican filmmaker demonstrates the difference between a “Hitchcockist” and a “Hitchcockian.”

May 16, 2012 | 1:30pm -
Blog Toronto Strife and why Tumblr needs to shut up

How the instantly viral quick-fire jokes of Tumblr pander to our sense of community, rendering that sense frustratingly narrow in the process.

May 15, 2012 | 2:00pm -
Music Review Sleep: Dopesmoker

A reissue of a beyond-epic 1996 album promises “a true representation of Sleep’s hour-long Weedian chronicle.”

May 15, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Picnicface’s Scott Vrooman

The hilarious Canadian sketch troupe had its TV show cancelled. We talk to one of its members about why that stinks.

May 15, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire Cartoon metal band Dethklok to tour North America with real, less interesting metal band Lamb Of God

Prepare for all of your illusions that cartoons are real to be shattered in turn.

May 14, 2012 | 12:30pm -
Just Announced The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine to “dock” at participating Canadian cinemas, says punny press release

Finally you can see psychedelic classic as it was always meant to be seen: digitally mastered on a 4k packet.

May 14, 2012 | 10:15am -
Interview Daryn Jones

We talk to the longtime MTV Live host before he moves back to the CBC for a new gig.

May 14, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview A Place Called Los Pereyra producer Hugh Gibson

We talk to the producer of the Canadian/Argentine doc about shooting in remote locations and the double-bind of charity.

May 11, 2012 | 1:20pm -
Roll Call The A.V. Club’s guide to domineering pop culture moms

Happy Mother’s Day! At least your mom isn’t as overbearing as these are. And if she is, just mail a card and be done with it.

May 11, 2012 | 12:00am -
Interview Joe Swanberg

Talking to a key figure in the “mumblecore” movement about making features on a shoestring and blurring the lines between art and life.

May 10, 2012 | 3:00pm -
Preview It’s “no adults allowed” at TIFF Next Wave Festival

New film fest aimed at teenagers takes “by us, for us” approach to programming.

May 10, 2012 | 12:30pm -
Interview Scott Speedman

We talk to the Hollywood-handsome Canadian actor about his Genie-winning turn in Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster.

May 10, 2012 | 12:00am -
Beaver Hour Index Street Cents

Remembering the show that taught us about media literacy (and the Better Business Bureau) while we were still young, impressionable, and un-cynical.

May 9, 2012 | 2:30pm -
Local Newswire Labatt’s 50 wins an award at the Olympics of beer, somehow

And you thought it was just for cool kids playing in “alt-country” bands!

May 8, 2012 | 2:00pm -
Newswire Skrillex, Diplo, Grimes, others are all aboard for the Full Flex Express Tour

Ripped from the “Yep, it’s a thing” files.

May 8, 2012 | 11:45am -
Recommended If You Like In Solitude

Very few bands “make it.” Far more toil in relative obscurity, only sometimes earning a fan base and a living wage for their art.

May 8, 2012 | 12:00am -
Blog FenceGate and the nobility of flight

Daniel Dale forfeiting his property and fleeing from Rob Ford may not make him less of a person. But does it make him more of one?

May 7, 2012 | 1:05pm -
Inventory One bad apple… we can live with that: 31 rotten parts of otherwise fantastic wholes

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

May 7, 2012 | 12:00am -