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Extra, Extra: Lee’s Mural, Win’s Win, and Imagine’s Date
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- The new Lee’s Palace mural (profiled, with artist Runt, last month) is in fine form: Frank Yang of Chromewaves snapped the shot above of it on Sunday.
- What’s going on with the Imagine Concert? The biggest concert ever (planned) in Toronto history, it was originally slated for mid-July, then things got messy, and now its website sets the date for September 4 and 5. We’ll have more about it this week.
- The Star‘s paper and photo blog cover the sad second anniversary of Dylan Ellis and Oliver Martin’s murder, still unresolved. (Though it should be added that such tragedies remain rare, if no less horrific: according to Toronto Police, there have been as many homicides in 2010 so far as there have been traffic fatalities—twenty-one each).
- “We’ve had some of our favourite shows in Toronto, but Jesus Christ, you guys play it close to your chest.” So said Win Butler of Arcade Fire at one of his band’s two surprise Danforth Music Hall shows, and so he is quoted—or reviewed—in Chromewaves, Eye, Pitchfork (plus a review of Pitchfork’s review from Hipster Runoff), the Globe, the Star, and the Sun, too.
- If you like guides, Torontoist has got you covered—from the G20 to the World Cup to NXNE to Luminato.
- And finally, also in the Star, a lovely little article from Ryan Bigge, about how Toronto’s subways are represented in literature.
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