NOW DAILY | SATURDAY | JUL | 04 | 2009
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Watch Philip Sayce perform live at The Montreal Jazz Festival.

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Music

Degrassi alumni and up-and-coming rap star Drake, a recent signee to Lil Wayne's Young Money label who has been covered in NOW here and here, has just released his debut video, directed by none other than Kanye West.

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Studio visit

An artist profile of Anna Pantchev.

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Strike

Sorry for mixing these two reminders together, but I’ll try to segue. Summerlicious begins today and the city has announced changes to the garbage strike dump sites.

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Not much going on in the Transformers sequel
Movies

In the wake of the Transformers sequel’s conquest of the global box-office, with audiences worldwide throwing money down to see Michael Bay’s latest incoherent mecha-gasm, I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of the modern action movie.

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Hidden Gem

I don’t know how I got to thinking about Commodores lately. It was most likely tied to recently finding a program that let me play old C64 games on my phone. Maybe I’m just getting bored of OSX.

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Bathrooms at Tranzac is one place to put flyers.
Fringe

A look at how last year's Fringe playwrights promoted their shows in Toronto.

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Live Review

It pays to stick around. Those who stayed for Sonic Youth’s entire Massey set, including the two two-song encores, were treated to a blazing final song: Death Valley 69, from 1985's Bad Moon Rising.

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Strike

Day 11 of the strike: With evidence mounting both sides in the city workers strike are willing to ride this one out, (catch inside workers' union head Ann Dembinski's rah-rah Canada Day telephone message to workers?) some businesses have taken to extreme measures to safeguard their bins from would-be dumpers.

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Hidden Gem

Call me a block head, but compared to the cookie-cutter condos going up to house the masses, the stylishness of our World War II-era low-rises is often overlooked.

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