Art: Alex Colville at the AGO

Rating: 3.5/5

Finding great Canadian artists that are appreciated from coast to coast is not an easy feat but nothing cements art superstardom status like one grand finale: dying. When Alex Colville passed away last year at age 92, it was only a matter of time before someone in the Canadian art world assembled a collection of his work. Enter the AGO, which is currently staging a retrospective of the stoic Canadian’s work for all to indulge in. Colville, known for his existentialist portrayals of life, didn’t quite live like his paintings would suggest, as his primary residence for much of his life was his wife’s family home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. While we’re not sure how someone tucked into a small hamlet on the east coast would have much to say about anything, we’re glad he did. Colville’s work remains in our collective consciousness thanks to the commercial approach to his art, which has graced everything from book and album covers to movies like The Shining.

Television: The League – Season 6

Rating: 3.5/5

Entering its sixth season on FX, The League is finally starting to grow up…or is it? After very humble beginnings, the comedy series about five friends (and one wife) and their fantasy football antics, is hitting its stride at just the right time: the start of football season. After a few years of virtual anonymity, The League is moving away from its cult status and into the mainstream where stars Mark Duplass, Montrealer Jonathan Lajoie and Nick Kroll are starting to get noticed. As the show has picked up steam, so has its ability to draw amazing guest stars including Seth Rogen, Brooklyn Decker and Adam Brody amongst many others. And that doesn’t even begin to cover the countless NFL’ers who get in on the jokes every episode. Although Brody (SPOILER ALERT) dies in the first episode of season 6, The League has no shortage of great material for all football and non-football fans alike.

Music: Outkast at the OVO Fest

Rating: 3/5

It’s been almost a full decade since the ATLiens from Atlanta known as Outkast have gotten together on stage. Since climbing to the top of the industry over a 20-year period, who could blame them for taking some time off? When it was announced that the friends who launched their group out of high school and went on to sell more than 20 million albums would be reuniting, we knew tickets would be hard to come by. The excitement at The Bull’s office was quite palpable leading up to the show that took place during Drake’s OVO Fest over the August long weekend. The only problem was, no one told Outkast to get up for the sold out gig and fans witnessed a show that sounded great but lacked any form of camaraderie or cohesiveness with the rest of the OVO production. It was clear that this tour was all business and Andre 3000 and Big Boi hardly even acknowledged each other throughout their set. Making matters slightly more confounding, the show shut down without an encore at 10:25 p.m not even coming close to the 11pm curfew that always gets pushed at the Molson Amphitheatre. Maybe rap music has changed.

Film: The F Word

Rating: 4/5

Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Wallace, The F Word captures a young man in a slump. Not only is Wallace a medical school dropout but he’s also a hopeless romantic with no luck whatsoever when it comes to love. It’s no shocker that when he meets his leading lady, Chantry (Zoe Kazan), and finds out that she’s already taken by a much larger, more successful guy named Ben (Rafe Spall), he resists with all his might the dreaded F word. Sure, being friends is never easy for someone longing for love but Wallace depicts a place where we’ve all been, pining for someone who doesn’t reciprocate, with perfection. It doesn’t hurt that The F Word (or What If, as it is titled in the United States) portrays a Toronto that many of us have come to know and love as a great City, but as far as rom-coms are concerned, this one actually gets it right.