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CITY ELECTION
At least they’re all better than Mel
story by Xtra staff /
In a series of editorial panels this month, Xtra chatted up the top mayoral candidates about queer topics.
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EDITORIAL
Miller promises, Hall delivers
story by David Walberg, Publisher /
How can we make Toronto sexier? This was the thrust of recent conversations between Xtra and the leading mayoral candidates.
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TRAILING CANDIDATES
I’ll get you my pretties
story by Paul Gallant /
Fifth place mayoral candidate Tom Jakobek met with Xtra editors because, he says, the paper had in the past called him homophobic and he wants to set the record straight.
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WARD 27
Enza faces fines
story by Paul Henderson /
The city’s most flamboyant candidate is facing fines over her postering practices.
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THE VILLAGE
I love the nightlife, I love to boogie
story by Brent Ledger /
The hardest part is breaking it to the Americans. The poor dears stumble up here with such high hopes.
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SELF-DEFENCE COURSE
Take this, hot shot
story by Jeremy Parkes /
He called me fag boy, so I kicked his ass. I took out his friend, too, just for being there.
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RITUALS
Customize your love
story by Tanya Gulliver /
Eleanor Low and Meredith Hill have been a couple since 1990, living together since 1992.
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FILM REVIEW
Don’t look
story by Shane Smith /
Gus Van Sant is Arguably the most un-American US filmmaker working in movies today. Not anti-American in that Osama kind of way.
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FILM REVIEW
Tenderness & explosive fury
story by Michele Clarke /
For Karim Aïnouz, Madame Satã was just the name of a punk nightclub in São Paulo, Brazil that he frequented in the early 1980s.
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THEATRICAL LIFE
Poet radical
story by David Bateman /
As writer, activist, classical and contemporary actor, Walter Borden is a renaissance man who defies strict categorization.
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
The will for true grace
story by Brent Ledger /
The gaydar goes OFF about two sentences into Richard Teleky’s charming second novel, Pack Up The Moon.
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CD REVIEWS
Beats & boyz in the band
story by John Webster /
Danish duo The Raveonettes love the dark sleazy streets of American cities where hearts are broken, people are hookin’ and sex don’t sell.
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CD REVIEW
Rhyming orange
story by Lisa Lambert /
Let’s begin by lodging the obvious complaint: There’s nothing up-tempo on the whole damn CD.
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CD REVIEW
Achin’ clay
story by Lisa Lambert /
It’s 1960s night on American Idol 2. Five competitors left. Clay Aiken, the pixie-man belter from North Carolina, has just nailed “Build Me Up, Buttercup.”
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