Arts & Culture

Sound Off

By
Ryan Harby
Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions. Casey Mecija is both singer/songwriter and one of the main driving forces behind Toronto indie darling Ohbijou....
Arts & Culture

Ten great things

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Ryan Harby
Dan Mangan (Nov. 1 @ the Garrick) — Depending on when you read this column, this first entry may be the most difficult to attend. If you have the time, however, a Dan Mangan...
Arts & Culture

Sound Off

By
Ryan Harby
Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions. In his second studio album under the Arts and Crafts banner, Oh, Fortune, Dan Mangan looks to...
Features

Vampire movies that don’t suck

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Ryan Harby
Let the Right One In (2008) There is an American version — called Let Me In — of this Swedish film, but if you don’t mind the subtitles the original is definitely the way to...
Arts & Culture

Book review: MetaMaus

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Ryan Harby
It’s been more than 20 years since the original release of Art Spiegelman’s two volume holocaust epic, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, and in that time span the book has become a critical darling, a...
Arts & Culture

Breaking Bad vs. The Wire

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Ryan Harby
Earlier this month AMC’s critically acclaimed drama Breaking Bad concluded its fourth and, if you believe its creators, second-to-last season. As many viewers have grown accustomed, the characters were pushed to their limits and...
Arts & Culture

Things I’ve loved

By
Ryan Harby
Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture. It is a venue to both reminisce and profess...
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