28 December 2006 No Comment

Eye Weekly, 2006 List

November

Robert Altman RIP. | The Black Keys, Magic Potion . | Income trust reversal: markets freak out. | Deliver Us From Evil . | Quebec Nation recognized. | Scrappy kid Shaun Bruce runs for mayor. | Nellie McKay, Pretty Little Head . | Into the Great Silence . | Chavez, Better Days Will Haunt You . | Black Eyed Dogs H. | Saw III H. | Bush: "The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done." | PJ Harvey, The Peel Sessions . | Britney Spears sheds husband, underwear. | The Babysitter . | US Democrats win control of congress. | Toronto One-Minute film festival. | The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America . | My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade . | Ken Aldcroft’s Convergence Ensemble . | Kanye West bum-rushes the MTV Europe Awards. | Dolly Parton, The Acoustic Selection: 1999-2002 . | New Who album doesn’t suck (Endless Wire ). | Milton Friedman RIP. | Dollarama get cease-and-desisted. | Propagandhi win SOCAN Echo prize. | Pavement, Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition . | Fucked Up banned in the USA. | The Game calls out Dre. | Tom Waits, Orphans . | Gerald Levert RIP. | Tenacious D pick their destiny. | Stranger Than Fiction . | A Good Year (H) a bad film. | Clipse are so trill. | Dears do three nights at Lee’s. | The Oxford Collapse, Remember the Night Parties . | Beatles for sale, again. | Michael Richards drops n-bomb on own career. | Belinda goes brunette. | Pernice Brothers, Live a Little . | Harper pulls out of Kyoto. | Eye Weekly/Spacing mayoral debate draws 500. | Expo bid collapses. | Jon Rae and the River, Knows What You Need . | Record number of council candidates. | OJ: If I Did It. | Rupert Murdoch: "Oh no you di’int." | Sandro Perri Plays Polmo Polpo . | Federal report vindicates TPA. | Countdown traffic lights. | Snoop Dogg busted. | The Fountain . | Volver . | Wannabe councillor Himy Syed opens campaign headquarters in Metro Porn Theatre . | Au-Dela De La Haine . | Old Joy . | The Magic Flute . | Ritter, Dene, Voss . | No K-Fed/Britney sex tape (thank god). | The Game is not a cop. | Joanna Newsom, Ys . | Pete Doherty arrested again. | Ghostface: More Fish, please. | Bill Cosby vs hip-hop. | Woolly Leaves, Quiet Waters . | Flaming Lips Alley! | Broken Social Scene go on hiatus (we think). | Solomon Burke, Nashville . | Jim "Blackberry" Balsillie backs out of Penguins deal. | Indie film icon Adrienne Shelley murdered. | Guy Clark, Workbench Songs . | George Jones and Merle Haggard, Kickin’ Out the Footlights… Again . | Jack Palance RIP. | Borat . | Blond new Bond Daniel Craig puts 007 in touch with his sociopathic side. | Career Suicide, Attempted Suicide . | Fast Food Nation: "There’s shit in the meat." | Neil Patrick "Doogie Howser" Harris = gay. | Homophobic preacher Ted Haggard forced out of the closet, job in sex and drugs scandal. | Deftones, Saturday Night Wrists . | Courtney Love publishes her diary, world survives. | Daniel Brooks’ Insomnia returns. | National Ballet of Canada’s Greta Hodgkinson sparkles in Sleeping Beauty. | Flashlight, Brown Blue . | Doctor-cum-author Vincent Lam wins the Giller. | Jazzy Jeff, Hip Hop Forever III . | Governor General’s Awards for Peter Behrens and Daniel MacIvor. | Rich people buy art at the Toronto International Art Fair. | Subtle, For Hero, For Fool . | "18:Beckett." | The Tim Sims Encouragement Fund’s 10th Annual Cream of Comedy Competition gives $4,000 to Rebecca Addelman. | Henrik Schwarz, DJ Kicks . | Fringe fave Antoine Feval lands at Diesel. | J.G. Ballard writes a book about a nightmarish, consumer-obsessed society. | Nina Simone, Remixed and Reimagined . | Drumheller, Wives . | Dancer Meagan O’Shea’s Something Blue deconstructs wedding dresses. | Seussical the Musical is a condensed hit. | Ansel Adams and Alfred Eisenstadt class up the AGO. | Obama-rama. | Keith Jarrett, The Carnegie Concert . | LeDrew proposes plaque to commemorate Miller’s failed Expo bid. | David Miller visits 44 wards in 44 hours. | Molly Johnson, Messin’ Around . | The David S. Ware Quartet, BalladWare . | John Zorn, Astronome . | Noel Ellis, Light in the Attic . | International Sad Hits, Volume One: Altaic Language Group . | "Don’t Vote For Giambrone" Jeep spotted around town. | Selda . | Police protection for Ward 8 voting. | The Gothic Archies, The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events . | uTOpia 2: The State of the Arts. | David Geffen sells Pollock No. 5 for $140 million. | Marie Antoinette . | LAPD on YouTube handing out beat-downs. | The Sadies, Tales of the Rat Fink . | South African parliament OKs same-sex marriage. | Al Jazeera: all English all the time. | Jeff Tweedy, Sunken Treasure: Live In the Pacific Northwest . | Tony Blair: "Iraq is pretty much a disaster." | Nintendo unleashes Wii. | LOUDquietLOUD: A Film about the Pixies . | Pope tours Turkey, sparks outrage. | Bell covers half the city’s ad space in wrapping paper… | …turns out the big surprise is those friggin’ beavers again. | "Calamity" Jane Pitfield fizzles. | Stephen LeDrew gets LeSlaughtered. | Mayor David Miller re-elected. | City Councillor Gord Perks! | City Councillor Adam Vaughan! | Sewell sinks, Mihevc stays. | Paul Ainslie lies, wins. | "Landslide" Case Ootes wins by 20 votes. | Hazel McCallion wins 11th term. | Donald Rumsfeld resigns.