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I’m Still Here (2010) – a movie by Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix
by Margaux Williamson (I saw Joaquin Phoenix’s notorious 2008 Letterman Show appearance when he presented himself as a non-responsive, sunglassed and bearded guest. He was mumbling about becoming a hip...
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Town Bloody Hall (1971 – 1979) – Event produced by Shirley Broughton &...
By Margaux Williamson (My friends Sheila Heti and Lucas Rebick saw “Town Bloody Hall” over the weekend. Sheila called on Monday to see if I wanted to watch it, she said I would like it. My TV was...
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Tea With Chris: Everyday Tastes
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: Margaux is still swamped, so it’s two for Tea today....
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How Should a Person Be, Teenager Hamlet and Don’t Go to School: MFA, Oct. 14,...
by Carl Wilson Tonight, in a couple of hours, three of my closest friends are holding a launch party for the results of their three respective long-term projects, a novel and a movie and an album....
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Exit Through the Gift Shop – a movie by Banksy, starring Thierry Guetta
by Margaux Williamson (I rented this movie recently and didn’t watch it. Then I saw it lying on my friend Carl Wilson’s coffee table and asked to take it home. I managed to not watch it again but did...
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The Bands that Don’t Reform, by Antony Harding and Darren Hayman
by Carl Wilson Hefner, in their salad days, with singer Darren Hayman at left, drummer Ant Harding second from right. I’m beavering away on my lecture for next week’s 2011 Pop Conference in Los...
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B2TW’s 100,000th Word Party: Guests Announced!
Last month, we announced an overdue launch party for B2TW. It’s happening on March 23, at Double Double Land; $5 will get you in the door. And now we can reveal the interesting locals who’ll be meeting...
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Vagabond (1985) – written and directed by Agnès Varda
by Margaux Williamson (My friend Amy Lam asked if I wanted to go see this at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto. I had seen it before, but only once on my television. We ran into our friend Jon Davies in the...
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Tuesday Musics: “All Women Are Bitches,” Fifth Column, 1992
by Carl Wilson All excited to go see Kevin Hegge’s documentary He Said Boom (that’s a great interview about it) on Toronto queercore/riotgrrrl-goddamnothers Fifth Column tonight in Hot Docs in Toronto....
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On the Genre of “In Conversation”: David Byrne and Cory Doctorow, Authors at...
(Picture swiped from Hazlitt.) by Carl Wilson There were some high points to the staged discussion this week in Toronto between musician/much-else David Byrne and author/Internet activist Cory...
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