Menkes
Quad@York

Nuit Blanche sucked again

First off, I agree with you: Nuit Blanche sucked. The ways that we’ve chosen to respond to the increasing suckage of Toronto’s all-night contemporary art event, however, seem to vary.

Action movies are for tools

Action movies are designed to enslave you. They’re designed to motivate stupid young men to pursue powerless careers as soldiers, secret agents, assassins and bodyguards. They’re designed to inspire you to be a pawn and serve the interests of men greater than you.

Beer 101: Know your roots

Two foreign companies control almost 90 percent of Canada’s beer market. On the shortlist of Canadian stereotypes, beer ranks right up there with hockey and excellent manners. But the three biggest Canadian-owned brewing companies in recent memory – Molson, Labatt and Sleeman – were all purchased by larger multinational corporations in the last two decades.