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Canadian rapper k-os has questionably hinted at a racist agenda at NOW Magazine after receiving a mediocre review.

Just about one year after the last major Toronto (areaish) concert, Richard Branson announced that the Toronto Islands will host the Virgin Festival over a weekend in early September. This is the first time the Virgin Festival crosses the pond outside the UK. Note that this is the first time that Centre Island will be closed to the public.

Thus far, rock photographer Andrew MacNaughtan has had a gorgeous and enviable career in photographing Canada’s hottest musicians. Torontoist is sure you are all familiar with his photographic work as he’s captured the likes of K-OS, The Tragically Hip, Avril Lavigne, Sam Roberts (pictured here) and Chantal Kreviazuk over the years.

So apparently there's some sort of thing going on up in Barrie at (Molson) Park Place this Saturday. A whole bunch of bands, raising awareness, blah blah blah. The bill looks something like this - African Guitar Summit, Barenaked Ladies, Blue Rodeo, Bruce Cockburn, Bryan Adams, The Bachman Cummings Band, Deep Purple, DobaCaracol featuring Kna'an, Gordon Lightfoot, Great Big Sea, Jann Arden, Jet, Les Trois Accords, Motley Crue, Our Lady Peace, Sam Roberts, Simple Plan, Tegan & Sara, The Tragically Hip, Tom Cochrane, DMC and a headlining performance by Neil Young. Tickets were free but are gone daddy gone and if you want one, well, there's always people who know people. Or you can stay home and watch it on TV - CTV begins coverage of the show, as well as the other ones taking place around the world, at 11AM Saturday morning.

invention, the duck burger, in favour of some (truly funny) investigative journalism. In today's column he picks up on an unfortunate and unpublicized revamp of the city's park benches. Seems those crafty characters over at city hall are putting ugly railings in the middle of each bench, in an effort to deter sleeping on 'em. And to his credit, Richler comes down firmly on the side of common sense, arguing there are more benches than homeless people (point Jacob Two-Two!), and that people don't tend to share benches with homeless people anyway, so let them have the whole bench.

Oh Sam Roberts, how the fratboys love you so. And Torontoist likes you too, though you once looked our friend's girlfriend up and down so many times he thought you might strain something. But that was then, and you were getting photographed at Bright Pearl Restaurant, and they were eating Har Gau, and that's all water under the proverbial bridge. Now you're all grown up and playing pared down accoustic shows, with the likes of Pale Sarah Harmer, Failer Kathleen Edwards and Fairest Jim Cuddy. Good on you. Good on everybody. 'Where have all the good people gone?' you ask. 'Why they're all here, Sam, you just can't tell because they're tucked under their well-worn baseball caps.'