Extra, Extra: Guns, Bears, and Bars

By Steve Kupferman

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

A screenshot of NOW's website, as it appeared earlier today.

• Oh, NOW Magazine. Your decision to run a photoshopped image of Rob Ford holding a gun to his head in this week’s issue is the desperate act of an alt-weekly trying to recapture a type of edginess it lost long ago—a type of edginess your upstart competitors don’t even aspire to, because it went out of fashion before most of them learned to type. When Adam Giambrone (author of the associated article) thinks you’ve gone too far in your mistreatment of the mayor, you seriously have gone too far.
• But forget all that. The Toronto Zoo has a baby polar bear to name, and they’re holding an online contest. Naturally, some internet dorks are scheming to stuff the ballot box.
• Also in internet dorkery today: have you tried the FUCKING BAKED EGGS at Bloorcourt drinks-and-food standby, Three Speed? We hear they’re great.

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