The News In Art

In honour of last week’s Black Friday tramplings and stabbings and general madness, a soundtrack to help get you through the holiday shopping crowds.

If only the ever-regenerating time-traveller were around to give us some perspective on current events—from the new nuclear agreement with Iran to our failures to grapple with climate change. (Also: Rob Ford is possibly a ravenous space worm.)

Fifty years after the killing of John F. Kennedy mass terrorism has largely replaced targeted murder as both the defining political act and cultural preoccupation of our times. A look back, from Dallas to Sarajevo, at what the assassin has meant to us.

It’s easy to compare Rob Ford—and his many scandals—to Springfield’s Joe Quimby. He may, however, have even more in common with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Mayor Wilkins, The Great McGinty, the Mayor of Casterbridge, or a 40-year-old Randy Newman album.