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SMALL THINGS MATTER Litton’s Law – Give a terrorist dynamite  and he/she will do something stupid.  CBC Nonfiction February 28, 2021. By Stephen Weir   All the Canadian terrorists I’ve known turned out to be idiots. No let me go one step further. They are all fucking idiots with blood on their hands.   I am talking about the uber cool revolutionaries who somehow hit the wrong targets, cripple the wrong people and always always get caught. Oh yes, I almost forgot, they always get forgotten by everyone but the people who bled in the streets.   I studied the terrorists who took out the plant where my office was some 39 years ago. There were five of them. I won’t mention them by name.  They were the King of the World types who eagerly traded in their personal Titanic for bad music and 550 lbs of  dynamite.   Canada’s first home-grown English speaking terror cell destroyed a West Coast Hydro installation, stole a load of mining dynamite and came to Toronto to change the world.  They might h

  A Caribbean Art Exhibition Of Epic Proportion Opens Friday At The AGO.  Only the Hoopla Is Missing By Stephen Weir Curse the Toronto Covid shutdown.  This Friday there should be balloons, fireworks, and revellers in the street to mark the opening of Caribbean-centric art exhibition the likes Canada has not seen before. But, the reality of the age is that on Friday morning the  Art Gallery of Ontario  will quietly open its Dundas Street front doors on the exhibition  Fragments of Epic Memory , a detailed exploration of the complex history of the Caribbean in this made-in-Toronto major exhibition.   The big show is an amalgam of a huge collection of historic photographs of 19 th  and early 20 th  century life in the Caribbean displayed beside contemporary Caribbean Canadian artists including  Ebony Patterson, Rodell Warner, Sandra Brewster  and  Zak Ové.  The black and white photographs many dating back to the 19 th  century (and many never seen in public), are from the recently acquir

Exhibition has a month ending run at the Pilot Photographer, Artist and Filmmaker Jenny Baboolal Will Be Forever Young. By Herman Silochan   A lovely little art show and reception at the Pilot Bar on Cumberland Street, just off Yonge, in Toronto was held on Tuesday night.  Missed it? Show was stay up until the end of August. Jenny Baboolal  the Trinidad artist and photographer showed off some of her delightful collection. Born in Trinidad but now living in Toronto, she has been amassing quite a portfolio, and of which many hanging in the Pilot are for sale to the public. At the Pilot - artist  Jenny Baboolal - photo Herman Silochan   Here is a sample of what was shown on display Tuesday night. She has concentrated on  Children in Carnival , the portraiture transferred to canvas and which makes for excellent display. All the subjects are from Carnival in Trinidad, not the Toronto Carnival. In two of the photos, are of the images on the wall with some fans in attendance. They are part of

  The delay in the game is over -  Esmaa Mohamoud 's sculpture   exhibition to stay open till October 24.    Play in the Face of Certain Defeat  re-examines understandings of contemporary Blackness. A sculpture exhibition by Black Artist Esmaa Mohamoud originally scheduled to open in Hamilton in March of this year was postponed just days after its initial launch date because of Covid restrictions. The show did reopen earlier this month just as it was originally scheduled to to close. Good news though for art lovers desperate to see this  wildly popular 30-year-old artist’s unique sports influenced sculpture show, the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) just announced that the Esmaa Mohamoud: To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat show has been extended until October 24, 2021. There is no charge to see the exhibition for the next 10-days - AGH has waved its entrance fee to the gallery for the month of August. "This exhibition will be temporarily closed on August 19 and the 20th so