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Busking around town with Lemon Bucket // Observations

by Alan Jones May 16, 2012 -

We trailed Toronto’s Balkan-klezmer-gypsy-punk-party-super-band around town. And met an actual clown.
Watching the Jays make history on opening day // Observations

by Anne T. Donahue April 9, 2012 -

We headed down to the Cleve for the five-plus hour spectacle that was the Blue Jays first game of the season.
How to spell “auteur”: B-A-Y // Observations

by Katharine Robertson March 12, 2012 -

Local teens, film critic celebrate International Women’s Day by debating director Michael Bay’s merits
Behind the tarps at the new Bloor Hot Docs Cinema // Observations

by John Semley March 1, 2012 -

It’s weird. Since the Bloor Cinema closed, the entire character of the corner of Bloor and Bathurst seems to have changed.
The CBC unveils fairly nifty new digital music service // Observations

by John Semley February 14, 2012 -

CBC Music aims to revolutionize how Canadians engage with music. But what about those of us who already know how to do all of that?
Better civic thinking through conceptual theft // Observations

by Wyndham Bettencourt-McCarthy January 30, 2012 -

“Your ideas were great, but what was greater was that you had ideas.”
Worshipping at the altar of the new Burger’s Priest // Observations

by Melody Lau January 10, 2012 -

We trek way north to the grand opening of the Burger’s Priest’s second location.
Expanding the local music dialogue with #SayWrd // Observations

by Max Mertens December 15, 2011 -

New Q&A series allows Torontonians to spend a little more time with musicians passing through town.
Getting crafty with your Christmas shopping // Observations

by Melody Lau December 13, 2011 -

Between last weekend’s cozy City Of Craft fair and the annual One Of A Kind Show, Toronto truly is a—wait for it—city of crafts.
Inside the new Maples Leaf Gardens Loblaws, at last // Observations

by Jake Goldsbie and Kayte McKnight December 12, 2011 -

Our interns head to the new Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens and end up horrified by 18 vertical feet of cheese

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The #CBC has taken an appallingly retrograde, heterosexist turn with its @WhileMenWatch partnership. http://t.co/LdLk30lo
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Horse-kitsch spectacular #Odysseo is like a "highbrow Medieval Times." http://t.co/Bs2uBUlX
AVClubToronto at May 24, 2012 11:20 AM
Toronto's National Theatre of the World bares all with new Scriptease Project. http://t.co/x9mon3cF
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.@JeuDePaume and Ryerson Image Centre bring the photographs of Berenice Abbott to a changing Toronto @agotoronto http://t.co/aFK5F7PL
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.@TIFF_Net launching touring David Cronenberg exhibit this fall, including an eXistenZ-esque video game element. http://t.co/uKFUFIze
AVClubToronto at May 23, 2012 11:00 AM
Peter Gabriel is coming to Toronto, playing SO live, except in reverse. (Maybe?) http://t.co/0DBLGcvF
AVClubToronto at May 22, 2012 12:15 PM
Anyone know when World Aggrotech Day is?
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Busking around town with Lemon Bucket // Observations

Watching the Jays make history on opening day // Observations

How to spell “auteur”: B-A-Y // Observations

Behind the tarps at the new Bloor Hot Docs Cinema // Observations

The CBC unveils fairly nifty new digital music service // Observations

Better civic thinking through conceptual theft // Observations

Worshipping at the altar of the new Burger’s Priest // Observations

Expanding the local music dialogue with #SayWrd // Observations

Getting crafty with your Christmas shopping // Observations

Inside the new Maples Leaf Gardens Loblaws, at last // Observations

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