Once a week, Vandalist features some of the most interesting street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

When Brian Burke arrived in Toronto last November, he promised a Maple Leaf team full of "pugnacity, testosterone, truculence and belligerence.” He wasn’t kidding: barely seven months into his tenure as the Leafs’ thirteenth general manager, Burke has begun creating exactly that.

Though Michael Mann has many fans, it would be inaccurate to call us one. Sure, we consider his version of Manhunter to be pretty much the best (Brian Cox’s chillingly reserved Hannibal "Lecktor" far better than Anthony Hopkins' later scenery chewing). Mann’s recent thrillers have all been turgid, reaching an absolute nadir with Miami Vice—the kind of film you’d imagine would send the series creator into conniptions if that wasn’t, absurdly, Mann himself.

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) launched their summer exhibition last Friday with a big party featuring “the smooth summer sounds of Toronto synth-rock-pop combo The D’Urbervilles” as live entertainment. Hopefully ironic press-release writing aside, "Pulp Fiction" brings together fourteen Canadian artists you might not usually see in a mainstream gallery.

WHERE: Queen Street West and Bathurst Street.

As it happens, the fifth post in our Future of Toronto Fashion series will be the final one—mostly because the writer (hi, and bye) is departing, but also because we found a designer who sums up everything about young Toronto that we love and believe in.

"Shaun would like you to sign the guest book, and please don't sit in the first two rows...especially if you're family," a sweet-faced young lady told us as we filed in for the Fringe debut of Baggage - A Non-Musical Romp Through One Catholic Gay Man’s Dating History (With Breasts for the Straight Men). This being Fringe, we thought the instruction meant there were projectiles involved, necessitating that everyone (family, in particular) take two giant steps back. The real reason turned out to be much more dear.

Kanye West recently took a short break from infuriating everyone in the world and making sweet kicks for the kids to direct a video for Degrassi: The Next Generation alumni Drake (née Aubrey Graham). And Drake recently took a short break from regular summer vacation stuff such as being—along with Michael Jackson's death—among the most-trended Twitter topics this week, dating Rihanna (allegedly), signing to Lil' Wayne's record label, and having two songs in the Billboard Hot 100 to give the words "make your bra strap pop" from his single "Best I Ever Had" a whole new meaning. A whole new set of meanings, if you will. Big, bouncing, I-can-use-bad-stereotypes-if-I-pretend-they're-ironic-but-really-I-just-like-them Kanye West meanings.

It’s hard to blame the band for trying. The Shuffle Demons wanted to wrangle one thousand saxophone players to perform, live, at Nathan Phillips Square on Canada Day—and they were this close to fulfilling their musical prophesy. Too bad they were short a couple (hundred) players.

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Police seeking witness to Yonge-Dundas fight (National Post): "Dozens of people watched a Toronto father get beaten up on Yonge Street, including a woman who may have filmed the fistfight that left the victim in a coma, police said yesterday." [More coverage on CBC.]

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