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Extra, Extra: Whippersnapper’s Closing, Jessi Cruickshank’s Leaving, and Big Chicken Isn’t
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Inside the Whippersnapper Gallery during Nuit Blanche, 2008. Photo by Lyndsay Jobe from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- They announced their plans to do so last December, but the Whippersnapper Gallery is finally closing up shop on College tonight with a big funeral-themed party. Eye gets the latest on Whippersnapper’s future.
- MTV’s Jessi Cruickshank is leaving Toronto for a job in Los Angeles. She’s sad, and is promising to not get lots of plastic surgery.
- That Rob Ford–stalking chicken continues to stalk Rob Ford.
- And entries for Torontoist’s competition to find a better Toronto slogan are flying in—several dozen were submitted in the first few hours. You’ve got until August 10 to submit yours.
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