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                      <title><![CDATA[Student Guide 2008]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Figuring out how to survive on a student budget shouldn’t require a degree in advanced mathematics. Luckily, we’ve done your homework for you, combing the city for the best (and most affordable) places to eat, shop, study and hang out.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/city/features/article/38522</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 21:00:00.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Graffiti bylaw goes too far]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[The City of Toronto’s “Graffiti Abatement Program” includes a bylaw that requires <br />building owners to remove tags and graffiti from their property immediately, though there is a provision for “art murals.”]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/city/details/article/38394</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 12:20:30.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Media blow up]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Phhwwooaarr! Finally, someone has the cojones to say what’s really
going on with culture in this country: insipid average-ness and
mind-numbing mediocrity (“Bonfire of inanities,” by Kate Carraway,
City, Aug. 28). Our “cultural identity” consists of hoping no one will
notice how dull we are, while pushing out anyone who might actually
have talent.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/city/letters/article/38393</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 12:19:30.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Yonge & Dundas scrambled]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[It seems that the newest attraction at Toronto’s ever-changing intersection of Yonge and Dundas is the intersection itself.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/blog/torontonotes/article/38163</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-08-29 10:55:03.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Dandyhorse cycling mag gets into gear]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Whether it's because of the Toronto Cyclists Union, or the Pee-wee event, or the Gardiner ride, or the Igor bust, or something else entirely, this is the year that biking in Toronto has become a part of the mainstream conversation.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/blog/torontonotes/article/38166</link>
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                      <keywords><![CDATA[Dandyhorse, cycling, City Hall, bikes, Toronto Cyclists Union]]></keywords>
                      <pubDate>2008-08-29 11:44:37.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Bonfire of inanities]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[In which our correspondent would accept a little backstabbing — and front-stabbing — if it meant a Toronto media scene worth gossiping about.  ]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/blog/torontonotes/article/37195</link>
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                      <keywords><![CDATA[Media, New York]]></keywords>
                      <pubDate>2008-08-25 06:01:12.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Loving the Ex for the rides]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[The Canadian National Exhibition turns barren parking lots into a
fantasyland for two weeks each year, but it also creates a fantasy
version of the TTC that we might wish stuck around all year.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/city/details/article/37954</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-08-27 13:00:57.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[I’d buy that for a dollar]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Actual items priced at $1 in Toronto last week]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/city/features/article/38027</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-08-27 15:20:59.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[The Burning Plain]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[The programme note for The Burning Plain refers to writer-director Guillermo Arriaga as a “one-man revolution in cinematic storytelling.” If that’s the case, you can start the revolution without me. The Babel screenwriter’s directorial debut (his first after a much publicized creative divorce from Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu) is just more overwrought puzzle-box melodrama, with seemingly unrelated narratives in Oregon, Texas and Mexico laboriously coalescing into what might be termed Art House Telemundo. It’s hard to imagine at this point that audiences aren’t wise to Arriaga’s connect-the-dots strategies, and as the story and characters are ludicrous — Charlize Theron toplines as a sexually masochistic cutter still reeling from all manner of adolescent trauma — the tricks seem like just so much faux-elegant obfuscation. Move along, folks: nothing to see here.&nbsp;]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/tiff/specialpresentations/article/38712</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-07 02:58:58.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[No other big-league TIFF entry manages to combine populist appeal with pop panache as well as this fizzy, frenetic tour of modern India by an Indo-British team led by director Danny Boyle. Vikas Swarup’s novel Q&amp;A is the basis for Slumdog Millionaire’s tale of a poor orphan whose tumultuous life somehow makes him an ideal contestant on India’s edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Full of colour and motion, Slumdog Millionaire hurtles forward with great momentum yet rarely puts a foot wrong, even when the story turns toward more familiar melodramatic conventions. But by then it’s become clear that the film is a Bollywood extravaganza in western-appropriate yet still very stylish garb.&nbsp;]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/tiff/specialpresentations/article/38711</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-07 02:56:33.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Miracle at St. Anna]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Working from James McBride’s adaptation of his novel about the travails of four “Buffalo soldiers” — members of the all–“colored” 92nd Infantry Regiment — in WWII Tuscany, Spike Lee mounts his very own war epic with mixed but often exciting results. That said, the hokum gets piled on several inches thick at times — if not for the pigmentation of the heroes, Miracle at St. Anna could almost be a blustery ’40s war flick. Even at nearly three hours long, the overloaded narrative has to swell to make room for impressive battle set pieces, examples of vintage bigotry, heated arguments over racial politics, business with a cute kid, squabbles among Italian partisans, a few awkward framing devices, some heaving Italian bosoms and a last-minute detour into magic realism. It’s bound to exhaust even some of Lee’s own partisans but the best scenes have plenty of brio and the director’s air of righteous indignation has rarely been put to better use.&nbsp;]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/tiff/specialpresentations/article/38710</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-07 02:54:20.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[TIFF photos: The Secret Life of Bees]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Alicia Keys, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson and more turned out for
the Sept. 5 premiere of Gina Prince-Blythewood's ensemble drama.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/film/thisjustin/article/38709</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-07 02:46:52.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Sept. 7 TIFF video pick: 24 City]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[EYE WEEKLY's Adam Nayman previews Jia Zhangke's latest social-realist drama 24 City, set in a Chinese factory. It screens Sept. 7, 8:30pm; Sept. 9, 3:15pm; Sept. 11, 6:15pm, all at AMC Yonge &amp; Dundas.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/film/thisjustin/article/38219</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-06 21:00:39.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Sept. 6 TIFF video pick: Derriere Moi]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[EYE WEEKLY's Adam Nayman previews this dark teen drama from Quebec. It screens Sept. 7, 12:30pm, AMC Yonge &amp; Dundas.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/film/thisjustin/article/38218</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-05 21:00:00.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Breaking the TIFF myth]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[
A first report on how there's nothing to report for most of the ten days of the film fest]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/blog/scrollingeye/article/38687</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-05 16:50:23.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Scorched]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Tarragon’s original 2007 production of <em>Scorched</em> won acclaim and
two Dora Awards. This remount, which is slated for a national tour,
offers a rare second chance to see what the fuss is about.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/arts/theatre/article/38659</link>
                      <category><![CDATA[arts/theatre]]></category>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-05 11:52:27.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[The title evokes The Thin Man but the more accurate reference points are Superbad and Harold and Kumar. But it’s no bromance: instead, straight-edge heteros Michael Cera and Kat Dennings do the are-you-my-soulmate? thing over one incident-laden night in Brookyn’s various hipster-infested rock clubs (i.e. the sort of place where Bishop Allen gets a gig). In short: this is not the sort of movie that many of us wanted Peter Sollett to make after his fine, sincerely independent debut Raising Victor Vargas. But Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist is better than it sounds, partly because Sollett pushes gamely past the script’s rom-com potholes, and partly because Cera is less mannered than usual. As for Dennings, she’s wonderful — as she was in The House Bunny — and she’s positively triumphant during what must be 2008’s most memorable mainstream climax (double entendre intended!). <br />]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/film/film/article/38644</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-05 10:54:07.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[35 Rhums]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[It’s tempting to label Claire Denis’ 35 Rhums “minor,” coming as it does on the heels of her previous film L’Intrus — arguably one of the most conceptually radical films of the decade, and perhaps the masterpiece of her remarkable career. Surely this new film, which stars Alex Dascas as a Parisian train operator sharing a tiny apartment with his university-aged daughter (Mati Diop) — a co-habitation that’s almost problematically intimate — is more conventional in its storytelling techniques. But, as shot by the peerless Agnes Godard, it’s no less beautiful. And the focus core of outsiders — with one exception, every major character is of African extraction — places it squarely within a filmography that’s always featured what might be called concentric communities of tightly-knit enclaves within a larger urban space. Her project is nothing less than the mapping of contemporary French society, and 35 Rhums is a precise, probing work of social cartography. <br />]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/tiff/specialpresentations/article/38643</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-05 10:52:01.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[TIFF Today (Sept. 5)]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[EYE WEEKLY's Jason Anderson previews the Quebecois comedy C'est Pas Moi, Je le Jure! in the Video section; plus a review of Michael Cera's latest, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist<br />]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/film/film/article/38635</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-05 00:00:05.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Sept. 5 TIFF video pick: C'est Pas Moi, Je le Jure!]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[EYE WEEKLY's Jason Anderson previews this quirky Quebecois comedy about a devilish left to his own destructive devices. It screens Sept. 5, 4:30pm, Winter Garden Theatre; Sept. 7, 7:45pm, Varsity (two screens).]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/film/thisjustin/article/38216</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-04 21:00:36.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Music to Listen to Comedy By @ Bad Dog]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Regardless of the musical antics on stage, the real star of the show on Thursday at Bad Dog was the men's room.&nbsp;]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/arts/comedy/article/38573</link>
                      <category><![CDATA[arts/comedy]]></category>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-04 16:28:32.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Passchendaele on parade]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[
First World War romance epic plays tiny role in Canadian military marketing clout]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/blog/scrollingeye/article/38540</link>
                      <category><![CDATA[blog/scrollingeye]]></category>
                      <keywords><![CDATA[TIFF]]></keywords>
                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 22:42:36.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Okkervil River]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Fame’s fleeting, fandom’s fucked; they’re both fabrications.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/music/ondisc/article/38454</link>
                      <category><![CDATA[music/ondisc]]></category>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 21:01:17.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Brian Wilson]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[Anyone expecting a follow-up to SMiLE is going to be disappointed by That Lucky Old Sun, but it’s hardly a wipeout.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/music/ondisc/article/38456</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 15:02:48.000</pubDate>
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                      <title><![CDATA[Ra Ra Riot]]></title>
                      <description><![CDATA[It’s hard not to compare Ra Ra Riot to the Arcade Fire. Both bands play
string-driven chamber pop and have released debut albums heavily
weighted by the death of loved ones.]]></description>
                      <link>http://eyeweekly.com/music/ondisc/article/38458</link>
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                      <pubDate>2008-09-03 15:05:19.000</pubDate>
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