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THIS IS PAUL S.

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Hometown booster returns to head up festival...

A major Toronto arts festival has just scooped an ex-patriot back to the city...

The first ever arts festival series in Parkdale Village...

Many pockets of artistic neighbourhoods exist within the boundaries of the No Fly Zone. The latest up-and-coming artistic pocket is the one and only Parkdale Village

Maybe they think entirely too often about the children?!

The highest court in Albany New York just voted against same-sex marriage. Once again it seems it was done in the name of “protecting the children.”

Thursday, July 13 Toronto WordStage presents writers Beatriz Hausner, Sandra Kasturi, Damiano Pietropaolo and Robert Priest at Cervejaria, 842 College Street (just west of Ossington), doors 7pm, readings 7:30pm, free.

Dreadful Visitations, installations by Elaine Whittaker, June 22 through July 22 at The Red Head Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West. “In the intersections between art, science and the environment, Elaine Whittaker creates mixed media installations that encompass painting, sculpture and photography. Through a series of installations, Dreadful Visitations is an exhibit that explores sites of microbial visitations . . . Dreadful Visitations challenges us to confront both our personal and societal fragility against microbial scourges.”

Sake Sundays at Sweaty Betty's, 13 Ossington Avenue. Open at 2pm screening Asian Action movies at 3pm in the back room. Some selections include Ichi the Killer, Versus, Old Boy, Hero, Zatoichi originals, Enter the Dragon and more (no cover). Sake is also 25% off all day and night.

The full title of the painting which inspired our magazine title is Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - a wise man, some cress, and a bluebottle. It is the work of British artist Stuart Pearson Wright.

"At the end of the first sitJating, the Prince inspected the work and exclaimed 'godzooks' or 'godzounds', the artist was too alarmed to remember which."

www.guardian.co.uk
Friday, July 25
2003