Extra, Extra: Can’t Stop Scott Pilgrim, Won’t Stop No Stopping Jokes, Shouldn’t Stop Wearing Chicken Costumes

By David Topping

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

A still from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. More—including brand new ones—are collected here.

• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World reviews are leaking out, and they’re overwhelmingly positive. (“The Godfather [of] deadpan hipster comedies,” Cinematical says.) Meanwhile, Exclaim‘s cover story this week is all about the film’s music.
• Sure, you thought only stop signs could be funny with one-liners scrawled onto them, but you probably haven’t considered the comedy potential of don’t stop signs.
• Ever thought, mid-haircut, “boy, I wish I was high right now?” NOW profiles Lightheaded, a place where you can get your hair cut and smoke weed at the same time.
• In Eye, Todd Irvine writes about how bad Jarvis Street was for everyone before the bike lanes landed there.
• And the level of debate in our city’s mayoral race has reached a new high, as a person dressed as a chicken paraded around a George Smitherman press conference today, holding up an anti–Rob Ford sign. Hey, we saw that episode of West Wing, too.

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