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Extra, Extra: Waste of the Danforth, Scott Pilgrim vs. Adidas, and Slow Dancing
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- “They’re all here to eat, and make a mess, and destroy everything, and tear things apart, and leave their food wrappers everywhere.” Some Danforth store owners and managers aren’t big fans of Taste of the Danforth, which returns this weekend. Ambivalence, though, is par for the course.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World may be really great, but eagle-eyed Josh O’Kane (who incidentally wrote OpenFile’s story about Taste of the Danforth) noticed a tic in the film’s posters: sometimes Michael Cera’s Adidas sneakers have three stripes, and sometimes they have four.
- Coming up in a week: a “slow dance night,” offering “a lending library of designated dancers for all you wallflowers, and a dancecard-booklet to set up dances in advance.” Regular dating is probably easier, frankly.
- That wonderfully epic Kanye West video for “Power,” it turns out, is the work of an ex-pat and former Ryerson film student: Marco Brambilla.
- And this is your weekend reminder to get your entries in for Torontoist’s Toronto slogan competition. You can submit up to three brilliant, clever, insightful new slogans for our fair city until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, August 10.
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