"A vainglorious, partisan spectacle": Christie Blatchford on Jack Layton : Really? ......

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Read Carla Gillis’ feature here .......

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Jason SummersThis isn’t a review of the double-disc edition of Icky Mettle , released earlier this week and the first of four Archers Of Loaf reissues to come over the next year and a bit – for that, hit up the excellent Pitchfork writeup. I’ve had Icky Mettle for years b...

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...one album song plus Wapusk, which she wrote for the film/soundtrack National Parks Project and was the first song she and Vernon ever recorded together, comes out in early September.......

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Neil Krug Those of us who dismissed The Horrors as gimmicky flash in the pans based on their 2007 debut Strange House were left eating our words with their follow up, 2009′s massive and grinding Primary Colours . With the assistance of producer Geoff Barrow, all the band’s cart...

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Toronto has one of the world’s best transit chiefs. ( There is a great profile of him in Now. ) Spacing discusses how the city probably doesn’t want to antagonize or alienate him. [ # ]......

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Frank Yang What happens when The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart meet the pains of being busted up in shoulder? You take advantage of the fact that said band used an off day on their touring itinerary to play an in-store a day before their official show, so as to avoid having to stand around The Oper...

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This weekend is turning out to have an unhealthy focus on “ Crazy, Stupid, Love. ” It’s just the way things shook out; if a certain someone had come through with certain things that were discussed, I might be covering “ Attack the Block ” just as closely. But, you know,...

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Although Margaret Atwood didn’t attend Thursday night’s marathon Toronto city council executive meeting to address the city’s budget deliberations, she was there in spirit and in swag (scroll down the Torontoist’s impressive live blog to see an Atwood button and refer...

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It’s alien invasion week at the megaplex, and — as luck would have it — the modestly budgeted import outdoes the expensive Hollywood product on every imaginable level. “ Another Earth “: Science fiction as existential metaphor, courtesy of the very talented Brit Marli...

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