Off-the-clock cultural reflections from the Slate music critic & author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
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The Crrritical List, late October 2026
There are a bunch of albums I’ve been meaning to write about, but for now more of a miscellany, with only one full record. More to follow next week!
1. RIP Patrick Stewart
I first saw Patrick Stewart on the 1980s BBC series Playing...
You Can See Everything, but feel something else
Note: The only interesting way to discuss this movie is with spoilers, so read only after you’ve watched You Can See Everything.
The swimming is the key to everything.
I’ve never really been a Nathan Fielder person, even though he’s Cana...
No Residents in Toronto tonight
I’m as sad as a stabbed duck. Sad as a mole in a mole show. Sad as a Santa Dog who has no presents or presence. The news hasn’t seemed to reach all ticketholders, so thought I’d let local subscribers know that the Residents could not get ac...
Links in the chain: Phoebe Bridgers, Elliott Smith
Official tour photos by Matt Grub of Phoebe Bridgers at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto last week. I think but can’t swear that the red-lit and blue-lit ones are on the domed main stage; the third sepia-toned one is on the smaller "folk" stage,...
Live is Short
My personal top picks from my full Toronto-area October show calendar. Plus some corrections to those listings at bottom (apologies for misgeographying Marshall Crenshaw, for instance), and—this month for the first time!—early alerts to sho...
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