Matthew Barney rarely leaves one ambivalent; in fact, it’s hard to think of a living artist quite so polarizing. On the one hand, you have people like New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman declaring Barney “the most important American artist of his generation,” and on the other hand there’s the Village Voice’s Ed Halter using words like “masturbatory,” “ritual self-involvement” and “superficial foofery.” How it is that he is the subject of such a…

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word “Jackass” in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we’re going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto’s craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn’t contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public…