Articles by Bjorn Olson

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  Paul Goodman Changed My Life

  Jonathan Lee

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2011

  Although largely forgotten today, outside of subsets of radical left revivalists, poet, psychologist, polymath and public intellectual Paul...

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  The Future

  Miranda July

  PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2011

  Following her out-of-left-field breakthrough, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July was transmogrified from garden-variety performa...

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  Rise of the Planet of the Apes

  Rupert Wyatt

  PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2011

  They say familiarity breeds contempt, but in Hollywood, the opposite is true: familiarity breeds giant bucketfuls of money. Franklin J. Sch...

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  Scratch Acid / Soupcans

  Lee's Palace, Toronto ON November 11

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2011

  As though time had decided to reverse itself, the mighty Scratch Acid returned to the concert stage not long after the triumphant return of...

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  Macabre

  the Mo Brothers

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2011

  For their splatteriffic feature directing debut, Macabre, directorial duo the Mo Brothers (the unrelated Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto)...

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  Becoming Santa

  Jeff Meyers

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2011

  Every year, as the so-called "festive season" infringes upon the rest of the calendar year, when families finish paying off their debt from...

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  Wooden Shjips / Birds of Avalon

  Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON November 7

  PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2011

  Wooden Shjips brought their travelling psychedelic roadshow to Toronto for the first time, giving fans a heady dose of the band's pedal-hap...

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  The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway

  Marty Callner

  PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2011

  If you don't get a little misty-eyed seeing the one and only Pee-wee Herman ascend the stage to rapturous applause as the star of his epony...