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Jack and Jill's Lament

Jack and Jill is one of the stores that made me fall in love with my neighborhood when I moved into the M6J area two years ago. Its very artlessness is characteristic of the street and its existence lends to the unbranded life of the area.

Bohemians unite!

There is something wrong with the Bohemian Embassy condos they are building on Queen West in the no fly zone. We can only hope the company misread the demographic; because the ads for these condos are so wide of the mark it isn’t funny.

Arts funding for youth available in Toronto

ArtReach Toronto is a program designed to support arts initiatives that engage youth who have experienced exclusion in under-served areas of Toronto.

The Brown Hornets Rock the Bovine Friday, August 25. “Your Brown Hornets are playing this Friday August 25th at the Bovine Sex Club with Clifton David and Johnny Nobody. If you’re in the area come on out and join us for Rock and Roll goodness, tons of beers and loads of Jagermeister. Hornets hit the stage at midnight.”

Paul Butler’s Collage Party - Rolling Thunder Tour 2006. An artist residency - open to the public on Saturday, August 26 from 11am to 6pm, Party from 6pm onwards! Paul Butler, Tyler Clark Burke, Maura Doyle, Dearraindrop, Michael Dumontier, Jason McLean, Sandy Plotnikoff, Seth Scriver, Caelum Vatnsdal. Supported by the Latner Family, BEAVER Restaurant and othergallery.com. “Paul Butler has become quite the fixture in the art world and a big part of that has to do with his collage parties. It has been held in LA, London, Winnipeg and New York.”

Tuesday, August 29 The Art Bar Poetry Series presents readings by Linda Stitt and Chris Pannell. Victory Café, 581 Markham St., 8pm, free, www.artbar.org.

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 sitting, 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