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Give me weed instead of roses/give me whiskey ‘stead of wine”: How modern country music and marijuana made friends natpo.st/10u0VMl
Dave Chappelle is headlining Funny Or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Tour: natpo.st/1bO67uo
But it’s not coming to Canada! As consolation, here’s a photo of the time Dave Chappelle met Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (just last year!).
CATS on cats
After 25 years away from Toronto stages, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster Cats returns for a new generation. But cats occupy a very different place in our culture than they did during the show’s first run. Thanks mostly to an Internet culture that prizes documenting everything and staying cloistered indoors, cats have become the true stars of new media, with their habits, quirks and even rich emotional lives documented from literally every angle. In an attempt to bring together these pre- and post-millennium views of cats, the National Post’s David Berry met a few of the cast members of Cats in the green room and watched a selection of cat videos. It turns out that even Cats can’t resist cat videos: natpo.st/10qtASz
Robert Downey Jr. is not Iron Man, small boy tearfully realizes
Read the story behind the photo here: natpo.st/10imkYN
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Lois Lane!
England gets suave superspy James Bond; America gets Superman. And Canadians get Lois Lane. By which I mean, they get Lois. They understand that the patriotic superhero’s love interest is more than a sidekick minus cape or catsuit, or a glorified Bond girl. Besides, Lois doesn’t need an alter-ego: she’s interesting enough in her own right: natpo.st/12DXFiQ
Exhibition curated from David Bowie’s personal archive to make first touring stop at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto this fall
“David Bowie is” will feature more than 300 objects from Bowie’s own personal archive, according to a press release issued by the AGO, including diary entries, more than 50 costumes and pictures of Bowie taken by star photographer Helmut Newton. More here: natpo.st/1bsdk33
![Rock of Aged: Music fans now have more than sympathy for old devils
Why, as a culture, are we now paying deference to those we’ve been encouraged to disdain? Maybe we’ve lowered our expectations, or maybe the press, whom wild hearses once couldn’t drag away from an ageist pun, have finally decided that denigrating veteran rockers is old-hat: http://natpo.st/192qTHd
[Illustration by Kagan McLeod]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9f2adff2ebba2a4100309c186c6b3ea3/tumblr_mo8l9mrMol1r59dcio1_1280.jpg)
Rock of Aged: Music fans now have more than sympathy for old devils
Why, as a culture, are we now paying deference to those we’ve been encouraged to disdain? Maybe we’ve lowered our expectations, or maybe the press, whom wild hearses once couldn’t drag away from an ageist pun, have finally decided that denigrating veteran rockers is old-hat: http://natpo.st/192qTHd
[Illustration by Kagan McLeod]
Graphic: Bieber Versus Bieber
When Justin Bieber burst onto the scene in 2009, he was an uncontroversial, shaggy-haired, prepubescent 15-year-old. He’d been discovered on YouTube by some big music stars, and with his debut single ‘One Time,’ he was, for a brief moment, a shining example of young Canadian talent. The Stratford, Ont., -raised singer quickly became the most famous person on the planet.
Since his humble beginnings, Bieber sold out a Madison Square Garden concert in 22 minutes, amassed nearly three billion YouTube views, sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, and became the focus of intense public scrutiny. From ‘Baby’ to ‘Boyfriend,’ mop-hair to gel-hair, purple hoodie to leather, dog tag to gas mask, the evolution of Bieber from ‘cuddly’ to ‘gnarly’ in these short four years has gripped the world. Which Bieber do you prefer?
‘I thought he was a doctor’: John Malkovich helps save blood-soaked man’s life on a Toronto street
On the final day of a cross-Canada train trip, Ohio’s Marilyn Walpole was walking down King St. East with fellow travellers, when, behind her, she heard a slight moan and turned around to see her 77-year-old husband awash in his own blood.
“There was blood everywhere on the sidewalk; his face was full of blood, his clothes were soaked in blood … and he was moaning,” said Ms. Walpole, speaking from her home in Defiance, Ohio.
Within moments, a bystander had thrown down his cigarette, rushed into the blood-soaked scene and administered the emergency First Aid that may have saved Mr. Walpole’s life. Only later would the couple discover that the bystander was Academy Award-nominated actor John Malkovich.
“He really knew what he was doing; that’s why I thought he was a doctor,” said Ms. Walpole. “He had no qualms about getting blood all over him; that would be a real concern for some people.” (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Galit Rodan)
Guess who performed with the Rolling Stones in Montreal last night
It’s Win Butler of Arcade Fire! The Stones are currently touring North America, bringing celebrity friends onstage along the way. Read our review of their May 26 Toronto show, which featured Carrie Underwood, here: http://natpo.st/12J0Wbx
