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Drinky Crow

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  TwitteReview – Closing Ceremonies 2010 Olympics

  It was awful!

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  Olympics Report # 9 – First Round of Men’s Ski Cross

  Men’s ski cross photos from Cypress Mountain on a glorious Sunday afternoon.

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  Olympics Report # 8 – Women’s Snowboard Half-Pipe Feb 18 2010

  Another beautiful day up at Cypress Mountain, where the women’s snowboard half-pipe competition is underway.

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  Olympics Report # 7 – Men’s Snowboard at Cypress Feb 17 2010

  Photos from the men’s snowboard half pipe at Cypress Mountain. Go Canada! Whoot whoot!

• Olympics Report #5 – Maelle Ricker Wins Gold for Canada in Women’s Snowboard Cross

  Canadian Maelle Ricker bounces back after a poor showing in the initial qualifying run.

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  Olympics Photo Gallery – Bringing Snow to Cypress

  Exclusive Guttersnipe photos of the VANOC initiative to bring snow to Cypress for the Olympics. Don’t worry about it, it’s only money!

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  Lullabye Arkestra Release Free EP, Announce Tour Dates

  The Toronto duo has just released a free three-song EP. Plus – new tour dates announced, and a few photos from the band’s recent Toronto appearance.

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  (Some of) Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup Announced

  Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, St. Vincent, Raekwon, and Cass McCombs are among the performers just announced for this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival.

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  New You Say Party! We Say Die! Video, Tour Dates

  Still riding high on the release of its third album XXXX, the Vancouver new wave party band is back with a new video and some April tour dates.

• The Simpsons in Vancouver

  Vancity Buzz reports that Homer and Marge will finally make it to Vancouver in an episode to air Feb. 14.

• New Pornographers Album Release Date Announced

  The fifth album from the Vancouver band is scheduled for a May 4 release. All the usual suspects are involved, along with a few new faces.

• Man or Astro-Man? Reform, Play SXSW

  That crazy space-rock instrumental band from Alabama with the great album sleeves and costumes reforms. We knew something was missing from today’s indie-rock scene…

• (500) Days of Summer Director Chosen for Next Spider-Man

  Dude who directed Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer gets on board after Sam Raimi quits. Does this mean Death Cab for Cutie or She and Him will be on the soundtrack?

• Pemberton Festival Cancelled, Again!

  We’re starting to wonder if the Pemberton Festival in 2008 was just a dream…

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  Golden Globes

  The best from the Twitterverse on James Cameron’s hair, ‘Ava-dah’, Robert Downey Jr’s speech, Mike Tyson and Mickey Rourke and more!

• Spider-Man 4 Scrapped

  Raimi and Maguire walk, Sony decides to go ahead with a 3D reboot. Heck, Stan Lee couldn’t have written a sillier story.

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  Lady Gaga Gets Her Own Comic Book!

  Two of our favourite things come together in one delightful package with the first issue of Fame, due in May on Free Comic Book Day.

• Japandroids Take Vancouver’s East Side to the USA

  Not only does the Vancouver duo make its network television debut, but singer Mike also sports a T-shirt emblazoned with the names of East Side Vancouver streets.

• Lou Reed Coming to Vancouver

  The former Velvet Undergrounder joins Sam Beam, Mark Kozelek, Vashti Bunyan and a host of others for Hal Willner’s Neil Young Project as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.

• Yet Another 2009 List – The Music Slut’s Top 13 Albums

  The body’s still warm, so as the corpse of 2009 settles into the cold cold ground the best-of-year lists are still coming in. Here’s one from blogger The Music Slut.

• Guttersnipe Calls on ‘Sauce’ Ban for 2010

  Over the last year, you may have heard words suddenly grow an ungainly new suffix: ‘-sauce’ has been added to words such as ‘awesome’ to form the egregious ‘awesomesauce’. Can we stop the sauce in 2010?

• Where is Tiger Woods?

  Is Tiger Woods the new Osama Bin Laden? The celebrity womanizer and part-time golfer has been keeping a low-profile since the incident with the tree, leading people to speculate on where he’ll turn up next.

• Best Comics of 2009

  When Avatar and World of Warcraft are among the biggest entertainment commodities going, the word ‘nerd’ loses its meaning. Thank God for comics, then, to separate the real nerds from the faux-nerds.

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  Festivus Fashion – Nothing Beats ‘the Bad Santa’

  With Scurrilous Ephemera’s regular columnist AWOL, guttersnipe’s resident crank Drinky Crow has had to take over. Today; holiday fashion, Mary J. Blige’s drama, Brittany Murphy RIP.

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  TwitteReview – Avatar

  Haters beware—if you were ready for James Cameron to do a literal Titanic with his latest, you’re probably going to be disappointed. Critics and Twitterites love it.

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  Shoes Pt 2

  We scoured the guttersnipe concert photo vaults to come up with this gallery of quality footwear worn by various musicians over the past year on stages near and far. Next – guys’ shoes.

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  TwitteReview – Thirty Seconds to Mars’ This Is War

  That’s right. Fearing the wrath of the hordes of Thirty Seconds to Mars fans, we’re declining to share our opinion of the new record. Instead, here’s what the group’s rabid following had to say on Twitter the day of the CD’s release.

• More 30 Seconds to Mars!!

  If you’re like us, you simply cannot get ENOUGH of Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars. Here’s a short film based on the first single of the band’s EPIC new album.

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  Jared Leto Watch – Seattle Weekly Disses JL!

  An alternative weekly calls Jared Leto’s home “a douche palace.” How would the writer know? And so what if he lives in a douche palace? We bet he has nice art.

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  New Thirty Seconds to Mars Single – Kings and Queens

  Guttersnipe has the new single from the Jared Leto-led band. But is ‘Kings and Queens’ the masterpiece the record company would like us to think it is? Istvan Nosenko thinks so.

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  Vancouver International Film Festival Opening Party

  Well, not the actual movies themselves—that would be boring. We mean the gala opening party that kicked off the Vancouver Int’l Film Festival last night. Jessica Bardosh photos.

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  More Proof (As If Any Is Needed) Vancouver is No Fun City

  The latest in a long line of cool, funky venues to get shut down due to gentrification, out-of-date bylaws and the whims of city hall, the Cobalt will be mourned by the city’s punkest and noisiest.

• Jared Leto, Megan Fox to Produce New Master Race?

  If rumours are true, the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman and the Transformers star may soon make the rest of humanity obsolete.

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  Jared Leto Watch – JL Gets a Good Review

  A strange and ambitious sci-fi project starring the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman along with Sarah Polley and Rhys Ifans, gets a rave from Andrew James.

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  Jack Kirby? Jack Kirby!

  We love comics as much as the next geek. But using a comic artist’s name, even one as famous as Jack Kirby’s, to sell a movie is something new…

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  The Daily Vampire – Kissinger Signs On to Write Vampire Fashion Article

  Fashion writer Michael Kissinger takes on the Clothes of the Undead.

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  Jared Leto Watch – Fashion Week NYC

  Fashion Week in New York City brings out the celebs, including the actor/musician many are calling the Sal Mineo of his generation.

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  Photo Contest – Weird Stuff at My Parents’ House Winners

  A frog in a bikini and dolls in a drawer are the prizeworthy entries in our ‘Weird Stuff At My Parents’ House’ photo contest.

• ‘You may have a chance to do something with this thing’

  On the morning after its highest number of hits (992!) in a single day, guttersnipe gets a call from our chief critic…

• Jared Leto Watch – New 30 Seconds to Mars Album release date/title announced

  That’s right, we have details regarding the long-awaited new studio album from Jared “Jordan Catalano” Leto. And no, we’re not making this up.