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The Math Behind a Toronto Night Out Nobody Shows You

A grassroots venue's margin can be about half a per cent. Here is why your favourite small night keeps disappearing, and what changed in the rules this year.

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Every Artist You Know Also Cuts Hair, Drives, or Teaches.

Seventy-one per cent of Canadian artists hold more than one job. This is about what the second one does to the first.

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A DJ and a guest in a red jacket pose together at the decks, pointing at a painting of a green one-eyed character, with a small painting of a face with wide eyes below it.
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Inside Mango Mixer

A 30 minute premiere on the wall, Sylus Rose on the decks, paint on the easels, mangoes at the door and more than 50 people through the day.

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