NOW DAILY | WEDNESDAY | AUG | 20 | 2008
Music
Tonight the Molson Amphitheatre hosts what some have dubbed The Worst Tour of the Summer - a dubious distinction that ultimately means nothing, though you have to admit the ungodly pairing of Maroon 5 and Counting Crows sends a lite-rock shiver up your spine.
Yes, we’ve been dragging our asses and blue boxes to the curb, but a new eco movement aims to rid us of rubbish – permanently.Waste not: the next Industrial Revolution …
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News Feature
Beijing – The idea of the blood-soaked hands of the Chinese ruling class somehow befouling the principles of the Olympic movement is as silly as the barely clad dance pack girls who run out onto the basketball courts while athletes grab water for relief from Beijing’s sweltering heat.
Chengdu, Sichuan Province – When my friend Yin Xinjie told me you could get over 100 flavours of cure-all Jell-O in China, my mouth watered with thoughts of rich orange mango and purple plum.
Picture it: town dump, turn of the 19th century. When municipalities finally started caving in to citizen calls to rid laneways and back alleys of festering trash, cities were mostly hauling away …
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The Office’s bug-eyed assistant sticks it to the man in The Rocker After four seasons on the office as Dwight K. Schrute, the squinty, authoritarian assistant to Steve Carell’s hapless …
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It’s not unusual for beat makers and remix producers to maintain a low public profile. Most hip-hop fans wouldn’t know Just Blaze, Cut Chemist or 9th Wonder if they were flipping through …
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Whenever Toronto’s punk scene of the late 70s is discussed, it’s usually the Diodes and the infamous Viletones that get name-checked, while other important bands of the era are …
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The Second City’s latest revue begins with a timely sequence that imagines Barack Obama being sworn in as the U.S. president. It doesn’t end well for Obama; in fact, one of his handlers …
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THIS WEEK'S ISSUE CONTENTS
- News
- A burning need to talk
- Up Front
- South Ossetia: A Monumental Miscalculation
- Upping the ante
- Leftover turnover
- Upcycling primer
- No welfare for waste
- Driving deep-fried
- 9 kind-of hard steps to making biodiesel
- Remaking an impression
- No such thing as a free sample
- Letters to the Editor
- Daily Events
- Big 3
- Festivals
- Life & Style
- Cover Story Born again trash
- Tonic of joy
- Freewill Astrology
- Upurea.com
- Savage Love
- Heart on Your Sleeve
- Haute cycling
- Beyond phone sex
- LG Rumour
- Walking the planks
- Goodfoot eco sneakers
- Notes & Deals
- Food & Drink
- $15 or less
- Above $15
- Sips and Nips
- Eat it Rawlicious
- Wanda gets crusty
- Recently Reviewed
- Music
- Hot Tickets
- ’Head game
- Rap skirt flap
- Thumbing to Victory
- Punks MIA
- The Scene
- Stealthy style
- Pulse
- DJ Corey Dawkins
- Perlich’s picks
- HUMAN HIGHWAY
- THE PACK A.D.
- STEREOLAB
- THE STILLS
- ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE NEW ORLEANS HELLHOUNDS
- ARMS AND SLEEPERS
- BUCK STARBALL
- PRAM
- BLEED THE SKY
- JANE BUNNETT
- ONEIDA
- ENDLESS BOOGIE
- Art
- Savvy Stories
- Internet interaction
- Books
- Macmillan misses
- Creative angst
- Stage
- Future imperfect
- NOW SummerWorks Picks
- Movies
- The Rocker
- ’Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris
- Tropic Thunder
- Tkaronto
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Fly Me To The Moon
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Bad Reflection
- Cure For Love
- Brand Upon The Brain
- Human Lanterns
- Smart People
- Meet Bill
- The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
- Coming Tuesday, August 19

Letters to the Editor
Hopping mad You called your last issue “the Beer Issue” (NOW, August 7-13), stating that “Hogtown is well on its way to becoming Hoptown.” I hardly know what to say. …
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Up Front
By the time they make a decision on [the Pearson link], maybe I’ll have had kids and they’ll be too old to bicycle. Netami Stuart of Friends of the West Toronto Railpath on …
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Gregg Gillis, who DJs under the pseudonym Girl Talk, finished an album two months ago made entirely of sampled music and released it on the Internet three days later.His mix, called Feed The Animals, …
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Festivals
this week CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION The Ex features escape artist Ridgeway & Johnson, aerial acrobatics, an equestrian show, music, the midway, food building, the air show and much …
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