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Three members from indie rock heavyweights—Montreal’s The Stills and Toronto’s Broken Social Scene—joined forces to form the Canadian supergroup Eight and a Half.

Some psychoanalysts might look at Sara Paxton’s recent filmography—The Last House on The Left, Shark Night 3D, and Enter Nowhere—and suggest that the 23-year-old actress is something of a masochist. Time and time again, the L.A. native has put herself in onscreen situations where her character may or may not lose a limb. Her most recent foray into the macabre is the Ti West-helmed The Innkeepers, in which Paxton plays a plucky hotel clerk who must ghost bust her way through the haunted inn’s final days of operation. Here is the refreshingly candid Paxton on bed bugs, Anthony Bourdain, and her worst fears. 

Cold Tea (King West) - Finally, a reason to walk through Kensington Mall.

Of the directors on this year’s Oscar shortlist, Michel Hazanavicius, the Frenchman behind the beguiling film The Artist, is by far the most obscure.

Kennebunkport is a small, coastal town in Maine, the kind of place we thought only existed in Stephen King novels. Every summer it’s swarmed by the dreaded one percent, boasts more bed and breakfasts per square capita than actual people, and is home to the Bush family’s expansive summer compound. In other words, what on earth were we doing there on a cold November weekend? Well it just so happens that Kennebunkport is also one of the best places in the country to test drive the 2012 Subaru Impreza, the latest iteration of the Japanese automaker’s most iconic model.

When Jean Dujardin was awarded the top acting prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his cocksure performance in The Artist, the 39-year-old Frenchman wasn’t quite sure how to react.

Hip-hop’s current prince, Drake, talks about his new album, coming home a savior, and why The Weeknd might be best thing to happen to music since Prince.

"I love when a remix is a complete revamp of the song.”

"I’ve always been incredibly intimidated by drugs."

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival was touted the biggest in years, as far as pure star power goes, with the trifecta of Clooney, Pitt, and Gosling topping most people’s to-stalk list. If last year was any indication, Grey Goose Soho House would again be ground zero for all things A-list, and it was, with The Ides of March duo and a host of others descending on the members only club’s weekend pop-up on Saturday night. The venue--3 levels of typical Toronto loft, exposed brick walls and floor-to-ceiling windows--was retrofitted to suit Soho House’s sophisticated but comfortable palette: pillowy, velvet couches, rustic lamps and table sets, and tribal rugs strewn across the hardwood floors. The party, which was officially the post-game for David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, quickly achieved shit-show status when Clooney arrived with his ex-girlfriend-to-be Stacey Kiebler, as lesser stars lined up to greet the couple.