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For a long time, Torontoist used our Mixtape series to nitpick the music issues of the week and offer relevant music in the very same week. An enormous undertaking, we know. But along the way, we got so caught up in making Mixtapes, that we actually became a Mixtape ourselves. Looking back, posting The Bravery and Louis X highlighted the need to relax our weekly download hijinx, or at least up our quality control. But soon the word 'relax' morphed into 'forget.' And now we find ourselves out of the Mixtape business altogether.

Torontoist had the opportunity to attend an AGO lecture on the late artist Mark Lombardi a month ago that involved no artspeak, and lots of interesting ideas (usually accompanied by wildly gesticulating arms, and far too many bangled bracelets). The show, Mark Lombardi: Global Networks is at the AGO til December 5th, and TORONTOIST thinks its well worth the trek. Lombardi, who conspiracy theorists wil claim was murdered for what his careful drawings unearthed, was a painstaking artists, one who kept over 14,000 flashcards of important people, and worked on his huge drawings sitting on the floor, resource materials spread all around him. NPR has a neat photo gallery of Lombardi's drawings here. The NYC gallery Pierogi (yes, pierogi.) also presented a Lombardi show in 2000.