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FILM FEST
Gut-wrenching memoir
story by Michele Clarke /
Most people like to collect something. It might be snow globes or fridge magnets or rare vinyl recordings by Japanese punk bands.
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EDITORIAL
Partners in sex crimes
story by Brenda Cossman /
The battle over Canada’s sex laws is heating up again.
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SEX LAWS
Sex money talks
story by Paul Gallant /
City Hall’s Committee Room B has a very sturdy boardroom table, around which are gathered 17 people invited by Peter Bochove, owner of Spa Excess.
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TARGETED ACTION?
Hamilton simmers post-raid
story by Tanya Gulliver /
Just one month after Hamilton’s Multi-Agency Task Force (MATF) visited three gay businesses in one evening — laying criminal charges against two patrons of the Warehouse Spa And Bath for alleged sexual acts — the outrage seems to have dimmed.
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PUSSY PALACE LITE
No frills fucking
story by Leanne Cusitar /
Word on the street is that the bodacious babes behind the Pussy Palace are making a bold new move in their quest to provide Toronto with hassle-free girl-on-girl booty calls.
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PEP
The morning after
story by Zoë Bake-Paterson /
It’s no morning-after pill, but when facing the possibility of HIV exposure, PEP is the only game going.
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EATING DISORDERS
Starved for approval
story by Michelle Magnan /
On a typical day, Chris, 19, wakes up with hunger pangs.
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ANNALS OF PUBLISHING
The Siren’s last call
story by Nancy Irwin /
An Aug 12 e-mail notice to past and present contributors of Siren magazine informed them that the magazine had officially ceased publication.
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FASHION FRANGLAIS
Must lessies be skanks?
story by Jane Ford /
It’s the sound of leaves crunching under your feet. When the nights get cold and you put on that woolly sweater that you love.
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FILM REVIEW
Marriage reversal
story by Gordon Bowness /
French filmmaker François Ozon follows up 2002’s stylish camp fest 8 Women and 2003’s chimerical thriller Swimming Pool with a compelling and unsettling look at one couple’s relationship told through five episodes receding in time — hence the title 5x2.
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FILM REVIEW
Almodóvar’s thriller
story by Gordon Bowness /
Bernard Hermann must be smiling in heaven.
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FILM FEST
Big tender hearts
story by Shane Smith /
Wilby Wonderful, written and directed by Daniel MacIvor and making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a bittersweet comedy about a day in the life of the residents of fictional Wilby, a small island town in Nova Scotia.
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FILM REVIEWS
The road less travelled
story by Shane Smith /
A dark cinema can house disappointments greater than Canada’s poor showing at the Olympic Games, as anyone who’s sat through a hideously bad feature film can tell you.
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BOOK REVIEW
Ever greater floods of cream
story by Jim Bartley /
Remember gladiator movies? I’m talking pre-Russell Crowe, pre-relentless grunt and gore slaughter fest.
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