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Extra, Extra: Jarvis Johns, Aussie Dicks, and Toronto Perps
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- That’s a good question, homemade sign posted on a pole along Jarvis Street! Though maybe all those cyclists need the services of sex workers, too?
- G’day! Local filmmaker/journalist/photographer/sometimes-pornographer Bruce LaBruce’s latest film, L.A. Zombie, is banned in Australia—and it was only the softcore version. LaBruce sent out a statement last night saying that the version banned by the Australian Film Classification Board “features no explicit anally penetrative sex,” just “a few brief shots of flaccid penises” (“the only erect member in the show belongs to the alien zombie, played by French porn star Francois Sagat, and it is a prosthetic [fake] cock”).
- Toronto Police just can’t stop finding more people they want to arrest as a result of alleged vandalism during the G20. Their latest suspects [PDF] run the gamut from “intimidating-looking” to “apparent tweens.” Oh, also, the latest group calling for a public G20 inquiry may be the most dangerous yet: B.C. librarians.
- Patrick Cain (ex–Star web editor and Map of the Week mastermind, now–OpenFile senior editor) has updated his TTC subway station passenger map, showing “with circles proportionately sized by area…the typical number of customers travelling to and from each station platform on an average weekday.”
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