Photo by KrogerVT MUSIC: Don’t have U2 tickets, or didn’t feel the urge to buy Lady Gaga tickets (saving your money for Madonna, right?) No worries, DC9 is hosting Seattle’s highly recommended These Arms Are Snakes , with DD/MM/YYYY and Three Stars alums Imperial China . $10 in advance/$12 at the door, 9 p.m. Or head to the Black Cat to hear South African outfit BLK JKS , who’ve been attracting comparisons to TV on the Radio. Laughing Man opens, $10, 9 p.m. MO

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It’s been a good year for Canadian authors when it comes to outer space. This summer, when astronauts Julie Payette and Robert Thirsk visited the International Space Station, they took with them copies of space-themed books by Kenneth Oppel and Jean-Rock Gaudreault. Now, it seems that the work of Yann Martel will be given a celestial reading by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté. Tomorrow, the Quebec billionaire – Canada’s answer to Richard Branson – will become the first Canadia

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Source:U2 FANS TO EXPERIENCE“VERTIGO” AT THE 2ND ANNUAL INTO THE HEART U2 FAN FEST NOV 4-7 IN TORONTO!The international U2 fan festival inTO the Heart 2004 is just what every U2 fan hungry for a pre-album and pre-tour fix needs!