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    Patti Smith on the pathos and passion behind her latest writing

    The iconic singer on Warhol’s meanness, family life, and being the original gender-bender

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    Fans revel as punk rocker and artist Patti Smith plays AGO

    [View the story “Patti Smith plays Art Gallery of Ontario ” on Storify]Patti Smith plays Art Gallery of Ontario Rocker and artist Patti Smith played two sold-out performances at the AGO on Thursday night. Fans on Twitter provide a sense of the evening:

    Storified by Maclean’s Magazine· Thu, Mar 07 2013 18:40:52

    Photo Gallery: Hot Concerts

    Indie pop darlings Of Montreal spare no expense with their live show, complete with feather machine, glitter, red body paint, and lots of shaving cream. Other recent concerts include Patti Smith’s intimate appearance at the Gardiner Museum and Metric’s electric set on the Toronto Island. If you can’t make it out to the venues, follow the link below and it’s almost like you’re there…

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    My own, totally unsponsored TIFF awards

    Now that you’ve seen the official TIFF awards, here are a few of my own. . .

    Because the night

    At a film festival, amid the stars and the hype and lurid glare of over-sponsored glamour, you live in hope that you’ll stumble across something thrilling, inspiring and wildly original that comes right out of the blue. Last night I saw exactly that. It wasn’t a film. And it wasn’t even officially part of the Toronto International Film Festival. It was a party celebrating a Patti Smith documentary that, due to a mysterious lapse in taste, had been excluded from the festival. Generally I find there’s not enough time to attend parties during TIFF. And whenever I do, I always seem to be at the wrong party, then get anxious reading breathless reports in the newspaper about about all the fabulousness I missed at the star-studded In Style soireé. But last night I got lucky. Joe Fresh, the Loblaws designer, was hosting the party at the Gardiner Museum with a tie-in to a non-TIFF screening of Patti Smith: Dream of Life. I went because I heard that Patti Smith was going be there, but had no idea she would perform. And no matter how many close encounters of the celebrity kind I missed at TIFF, I now feel I can safely claim that I lucked into the best party of the festival.