Articles by Bjorn Olson

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  The Art of Getting By

  Gavin Wiesen

  PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2011

  Hyper-literate, introverted young men are a classic trope, from Holden to Ferris to Igby. Gavin Wiesen's debut feature, The Art of Getting...

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  Rivers of a Lost Coast

  Justin Coupe

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2011

  Rivers of a Lost Coast is a documentary about the so-called "Golden Age of California North Coast Fly Fishing." If that sentence alone has...

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  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules

  David Bowers

  PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2011

  Movies based on kid-lit can be a tricky proposition. While the books are usually an easy slog, their filmed counterparts can often feel pad...

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  L'amour Fou

  Pierre Thoretton

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2011

  Instantly recognizable with his iconic, trademark, thick, black-rimmed specs, Yves Saint Laurent (who passed away in 2008) dominated the wo...

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  Black Lips / Vivian Girls / White Wires

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON April 16

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2011

  It seems like only yesterday that the fun-loving goofballs in Black Lips played a tiny, barely legal, super-cramped space in a converted Va...

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  White Lung / Black Lungs

  The Shop @ Parts & Labour, Toronto ON April 1

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2011

  We all love this big, vast country of ours, but the sheer enormity of the thing makes it awfully hard for touring bands from one side of th...

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  Wild Nothing / Abe Vigoda

  Wrongbar, Toronto ON February 17

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2011

  It's common knowledge that pop culture repeats itself, and in 2011, we have so far continued to rediscover the '80s anorak pop that sproute...

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  Frankie Rose and the Outs / Little Girls

  The Shop @ Parts & Labour, Toronto ON January 12

  PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2011

  Frankie Rose has an impressive pedigree behind her, having played with Dum Dum Girls, Crystal Stills and, perhaps most notably, as one of t...