Photo by nevbrown. The last couple years have been tough ones for fans of the Wu. Their last album, 8 Diagrams w,as marked by group infighting and public denunciations of the album by Raekwon and Ghostface Killah. Still, GZA's appearance at the Sound Academy is expected to be a great show. GZA (aka. The Genius) will be performing his classic album Liquid Swords in its entirety. The Friday night show will be as much......

"What's The Frequency, Campus?" highlights some of the intriguing shows and special programming happening on Toronto's campus and community radio stations. The Show: Mental Chatter The Host: Denise Benson Where and when: CKLN 88.1 FM, Mondays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Denise Benson has been hosting Mental Chatter for an astounding 19 years. It’s an excellent Monday morning blast of musical energy—she spins everything from jazz to house to rock, as well as......

Daniel Handler! In Toronto! You may know him better as children’s writer Lemony Snicket of A Series of Unfortunate Events fame, but he has written three books for adults not as Snicket's "Handler," but quite wonderfully as himself. He'll be talking to charming local writer Jason McBride (who Torontoist may have seen in The Annex last week--belated hullo, Jason! If you weren’t Jason, greetings to the gent who is passing himself off as Jason quite......

For three months next year, the Art Gallery of Ontario will surpass Andy Poolhall as the best place to see Andy Warhol images in the city. The AGO will recieve famous Warol prints , including Ms Monroe's, for a July - October exhibit in 2006. If you're not familiar with a Warhol painting or print, then that's a little weird. (Also, the AGO is FREE every Wednesday night between 6-9pm...just in case you forget between......

Brit-pop has officially become a legitimate cultural subset in Toronto. The Anglo-affectionate crowd already has several successful music nights (Dance Cave, Labyrinth Lounge, or anything involving DJ Mark Holmes), clothing stores (FCUK, Vespa, anywhere that sells Ben Sherman), and now a publication. UKULA, the brains behind the monthly DJ night at Andy Poolhall and a weekly set next door at Ciao Eddie, have compiled a nice looking website and matching glossy magazine. In it's first......