Simply House is a monthly event that brings you a night of legendary house music with a selection of dj's that have formed a collection of historical dance music, a selection of classic tunes reminiscent of those early 90's nights from clubs such as Zoom, Club 77, Kinselas, The Freezer, The roof top, Skygardens and Bondi Diggers which played host to events such as The House of Decadence - Sundance - HothouseDouble Dipped - The DukeCrisp @ Mortons on sussex- MoontoonzBondi Diggers plush and flow Djs/artists that will be playing simply house over the coming months are :Dave Kirkpatrick Phil Simmonds Robin knight Nck FieldAndrew James Squidger Special GuestJULIAN MOJOS on Hotlegs (Paris - Fr)www.myspace.com/djuliansThis nights for you, whether you were you there at the beginning or you just want to experience the house music of the 90's join us in this intimate venue with friendly atmosphere as we bring you a decade of house music. $10 Guest list - $15 standardDress code: Passion not fashionAre you up for it

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Not to make you feel old (though, I imagine you'll probably end up feeling just that after this next bit of news) but

Yes he can? Perhaps ...

Not the most local of dates for our American audiences, but our readers across the pond should be thrilled So what do you say Western Europe? Why not take in our incredible production of the

There was a bit of irony involved when we ventured to NYC's most carnivalistic of venues,

So I know it's been a week since that gooey, good feeling overtook most of the world in the wake of the American election But honestly ...

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Just off West Queen West, around the corner from 48 Abell and the Drake Hotel, on the wall of a long blue warehouse complex that is supposed to come down shortly to make room for a condo, stands Mr. Loogie. It's a faade in more ways than one. A constructed storefront for a constructed store, you walk in through its front door and find yourself in the workspace of an artist, with wood and construction materials"along with Bell telephones"everywhere. As you exit through what would be the back of the small store, you are taken out into a long and wide warehouse that has been converted into a city street, with fake storefronts on both sides, fake tags and graffiti on the walls, and a real TTC streetcar shelter and bus stop standing tall. A Viacom billboard advertising "Condos for Babies" hangs on the south wall. The work of Dan Bergeron (Fauxreel) and Gabriel Reese (Specter), A City Renewal Project brings the outside in and turns what's inside back out to comment on the change going on on streets across th

Supporters wait for Barack Obama to speak at a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 2, 2008. Photo by Jauretsi. Although that pesky thing known as "the law" kept non-citizens from voting in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, it turns out that there was nothing to stop enthusiastic foreigners from showing up at a local campaign office and asking to volunteer. More than a few Torontonians did just that, including Alex Weinberger (a staffer in the Toronto office of New Democrat Leader Jack Layton) and me (a former speechwriter to a Liberal Member of Parliament) who took the Greyhound to Cleveland, Ohio, to spend the final days of the campaign working to turn that swingiest of swing states Obama blue. In Glenville, the low-income, predominantly African-American east-side neighbourhood in which we were based, the challenge was never convincing residents to vote for Barack Obama: out of ballots cast at one local school, only three went to John McCain, compared to five hundred for

Barack Obama may be on his way to the White House, already appointing key staff members and promising a presidential puppy to his kids. Provincial cabinet ministers may be predicting that an Obama presidency will be good for Ontarios economy. All may suddenly seem righter and brighter with the world now that John McCain has made his concession speech, Sarah""It's not my fault he lost""Palin has gone home to Alaska, and George Bush is finally on the skids.

But Washingtons bunker mentality is unlikely to change much, and the reinforced concrete barricades outside the U.S. consulate on University Avenue wont be coming down any time soon. They serve as a reminder that the worlds opinion of America hasnt yet changed much either and that someone somewhere might still want to drive a truckload of high explosives through the front door. Those planters full of red and purple blooms are probably the toughest flowerpots in the city. If the time ever comes when they can be removed, it wont be a quick job.

The Bike Polo Halloween Smackdown took place on the tennis courts at Trinity Bellwoods Park last weekend, with teams from across the country competing for honours, accompanied by a hard rock soundtrack and curious passersby.

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The sign of the hipster apocalypse is spelled out in Helvetica. Black and white. "Now Hiring." Yes. American Apparel is "Now Hiring." If this means nothing to you, you're either far behind or just ahead. Because it means that, soon enough, American Apparel will mean nothing at all. What the Los Angeles-based company sells is more complicated than anything it makes. (By and large, its wares are still limited to very stretchy basics, though they're now available in a perplexing array of colours and metallics inspired by the Euro-Disco era). It sells so-called "socially conscious" clothing to people for whom social consciousness involves being acutely aware of where, in any given room, the most important party blog photog is working. (FYI, what "socially conscious" actually means is this: the company doesn't exploit children in underdeveloped countries, but rather employee-models with child-like faces and overdeveloped bodies.) American Apparel sells cool to people who are too