This Week in Home Video: The Soska Sisters invade Toronto, Dark Skies, Doctor...
This Week in Home Video previews all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and on-demand titles hitting the street this week, plus lost gems, crazed Cancon, outrageous cult titles and the best places to rent or buy...
View ArticleGet to know a Toronto startup: Strum
Have you ever left a store or restaurant with an elated feeling about the service you received? Instead of constantly feeling that you have to tip "just because", you walked away thinking that the...
View ArticleThis week on DineSafe: McDonald's, Astro Variety, Ahmutha Surabi, Everyone...
This week's DineSafe database is, thankfully, lacking in the closures department. There was nary a crucial infraction for most restaurants that hosted the health inspector. Everyone Cafe was probably...
View ArticleHouse of the Week: 6 Evergreen Gardens
This house at 6 Evergreen Gardens, in what some refer to as Bennington Heights, looks like the kind of place Angelina Jolie would run circles around in a film, taking aim at other mysteriously...
View Article12 local beers to drink this summer in Toronto
While it seems to be arriving in spurts, summer is nearly upon us here in Toronto. It's a special time in the city when the sunglasses come out, we start to show a little more skin, and we queue up for...
View ArticleToronto Artist Collective aims to revive all-ages scene
Toronto Artist Collective (T.A.C.) is promoting its second major event this Friday at The Great Hall. Intrigued by their take on the classic battle of the bands concept, I asked T.A.C. founders Dan...
View ArticleRoncesvalles Village gets an art gallery to call its own
Despite the nearby presence of the art-focused complex on Morrow Avenue that houses heavyweight galleries like Olga Korper, the Roncesvalles area is anything but a destination for emerging art spaces....
View ArticleVote: 20 Best Of categories
Today we're opening up voting in our latest Best Of poll. Now you can have your say in a new batch of categories including microbreweries, nightclubs, late night poutine, wedding venues, outdoor patio...
View ArticleHighlights from Anime North 2013
The Doubletree Plaza shook as the Nagata Shachu taiko drummers beat out a furious song of old. Each thump of the drums was so strong, and the acoustics of the hall so sound, that I felt the air...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones defy their age at the ACC
Entering the cozy confines of the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night, it was difficult not to be taken aback by the sheer scale of the Rolling Stones' stage setup. The band's iconic hot lips logo was...
View ArticleRadar: Captain Dirt & The Skirt, Odourless Press Poetry Launch,...
Toronto events on May 29th, 2013MUSIC | Captain Dirt & The Skirt An album launch tonight at Lula Lounge: Captain Dirt & The Skirt release their debut album,The Adventures of Captain Dirt &...
View ArticleMorning Brew: The Ford plot thickens, a birthday cake protest, options for...
Rumours continue to circulate this morning about alleged behind the scenes moves in Rob Ford's office in the hours after the Gawker story broke. It's reported David Price, the mayor's "logistics"...
View ArticleThis Week in Fashion: Acne Studios Trunk Show, Etsy Springtime Marketplace,...
This Week in Fashion rounds up the week's style news, store openings and closings, pop-up shops, sales and upcoming fashion and design events in Toronto. Find it here every Wednesday...
View ArticleNew in Toronto Music: Smart Boys, Jane's Party, Captain Dirt & the Skirt,...
Find out what's new and hot with our our bi-weekly local music roundupSMART BOYS / "RSVP" & "CUTTING THROUGH LIFE EP / MAY 28TH "Cutting Through Life" is the kind of song that will be in the...
View ArticleCondo of the Week: Radio City Condos
Don't get me wrong when I say this, for it is meant as a full-on compliment: I think this penthouse at 281 Mutual St. just might be the condo Austin Powers would live in upon retirement. Maybe it's the...
View ArticleGet to know a bartender: Quenton Fortune, Churchill
If you've spent any time on Dundas West over the past couple of years, you've no doubt been served a cocktail or two by Quenton Fortune at Churchill. Or, if you're a little further north, you might...
View ArticleWhat's the worst condo name in Toronto?
Naming condos can't be easy — what with the desire to mark a development out as hip, new, unique, elegant, blah, blah, blah. But, holy shit, does this ever go wrong sometimes. I imagine it's like the...
View ArticlePhotos of the Don Valley flood on Instagram
It rained in Toronto last night. In fact, it rained so much that the mighty Don River, tamed and restrained south of Bloor for so many years, rose up, burst free and did a little dance all over the Don...
View ArticleBloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix
If you were looking for vitamin rich vegetables at the Phoenix when the Bloody Beet Roots rolled through town, then you had come to the wrong place. If you had a hankering for big, bloody, over the top...
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