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It's Thursday February the 16 around 9:07PM and

Georgia Straight Watch: Growing Auld

Pour yourself a glass of red, or possibly some scotch. Sit back, and let's go throught the best and/or the worst of the city's biggest alt-weekly rag.

5. I have to say, today's Georgia Straight cover is actually fairly good. There. I said it. Too bad I couldn't find a single box at Waterfront station and the surrounding area that had them today. Nice distribution plan dummies. Sure it's the biggest puff piece on Alex Auld I've read since he went from bench warmer to staple since Cloutier, but it's fine.

4. City Single of the Week. "Dear Carolyne, I almost let you slide with the "King David, King Soloman, Aristotle" offering in response to who you'd invite to a dinner party. Quite frankly it is eye-opening when people don't say anything stupid. But you totally lost me at the Toni Morrison Beloved and then the Baraka reference just pissed me off. Come on Carolyne are you even trying to not be single?"

3. Cutting edge stuff here. The Straight has two items about, surprise, David emerson. Two things here. One, I think we should stop using "Dude, where's my..." references in articles and two, the cameo by former MLA and two-time party jumper Gordon Wilson was an interesting choice.

2.Vancouver was, "too busy eating pot cookies on Wreck Beach to complain about something in the music section." Lame. [Payback Time]

1. What a burn on Julia Kwan's film Eve and the Fire Horse. "On opening weekend, January 27 to 29, Eve earned $11,600 in Vancouver and $4,100 in Toronto, according to distributor Mongrel Media’s director of theatrical releasing, Tom Alexander," writes Pieta Woolley. "Since the film opened, it has earned $52,000. By comparison, Canadians spent $1.96 million seeing Nanny MacPhee that same weekend" Ouch.