November 27, 2008
Vol. 136, Issue 23

Gnu Ground throws a wrench in the suburdan family unit in The Last One to Bed. (Tyler Ball)

Group breaking Gnu ground

Think the family next door is perfect?

Music, might and ships

The past is a teacher, a shaper of things to come.

Gabby, happy, sappy and all too Poppy

At a time when we’ve all got hundreds of papers to write, thousands of exams looming on the horizon and millions of grad school applications to turn in, the last thing we need is a film that rubs in one person’s happiness in our oxygen-and-endorphin-starved faces like Drano into a gushing wound.

A few of our favourite things

1. Coldplay—Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Parlophone)

Take me to the riot

Flinging roses and baring their oh-so-sensitive souls, Stars played their melodramatic pop to a packed Sydenham Street United Church crowd, hopped up on sugar courtesy of the Humane Society’s bakesale.

Get Out There