Tag: Toronto
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Top 5 places Downtown Toronto to grab dessert this summer
BY DANIEL FORRESTER The sunshine is finally here people and it feels great. If your hopes are high for a hot summer, you’ll need something to cool you off after all that navigating through the concrete jungle that is Toronto. So if you’re ever downtown Toronto and you’re looking to cool off, satisfy that sweet…
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Meet the underground kings of live blues music in Toronto
BY NICHOLAS OLSEN Meet the underground kings of live blues music in Toronto. This feature article goes deep into the state of the current blues scenes, with a splash of history. Read on for in-depth interviews with Earl Johnson of Moxy, local Blues man Frank Cosentino, and the Toronto Blues Society.
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An art fair to remember
STORY BY MOLLY MUSSELWHITE Artwork from around the world can be seen and bought at what is known as Toronto’s favourite art fair. From Feb. 19 to 22, the Better Living Centre will host the eighth annual Artists Project Contemporary Art fair. Roughly 250 artists, many of whom are Canadians, will be exhibiting their work.…
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Wavelength Music Festival to host Lowell and The Acorn
STORY BY MOLLY MUSSELWHITE What do Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Tokyo Police Club have in common? They have all played at Toronto’s Wavelength Music Festival. From Feb. 13 to 15, there will be 21 independent bands and artists taking the stage at various venues downtown Toronto. Wavelength is a Toronto-based arts organization run…
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Art Exhibit reminds us the importance of Canadian landscape
STORY BY MOLLY MUSSELWHITE Artist Gwen MacGregor depicted the contradiction between power plants stationed next to forestry in her video installation at the Deep Woods Visual Arts Exhibit. “It’s probably not a surprise that I’m not a supporter of nuclear power. The legacy of the toxic waste and the danger are costs we can’t afford.…
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Into the storm
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Even though work emails had been pouring in, nothing could have painted a picture of what awaited her back in Brampton. Kathryn Trojan Stelmaszynski’s red-eye flight from Vancouver landed early Monday morning in Toronto. And she went straight to work, stopping only to pick up her car, which was parked on…
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Sheridan Sun at Toronto Christmas Market
VIDEO BY MADDY SOMMERVILLE Maddy Sommerville explores the annual Toronto Christmas Market, the classic European inspired market that happens from November 28th to December 21st.
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Craft vendors pitch in for fair trade
STORY BY RYAN MARSHALL Honey from Zambia, coffee from Guatemala, the Congo and Peru, jewelry from India, Columbia, and Nepal. All of this and more was available at the Toronto Fair Trade Show, held last weekend at the Gladstone Hotel. The show was planned to celebrate Toronto being a fair trade city, the largest in…
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Black Lives Matter: Toronto protests the Ferguson decision
VIDEO BY DARYLL HINVES On Nov. 25, the day after a grand jury decided not to press charges on Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the University ave. courthouse in Toronto to show solidarity for the people of Ferguson and protest police brutality and…
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Raising a voice against racism
STORY BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” This was one of the many phrases chanted by a raucous crowd of people of all backgrounds who packed Toronto’s University Ave. to show solidarity for the events of Ferguson, MO. Thousands gathered in front of the Superior Court of Justice building on Tuesday night, across the…
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Chill Ice House offers drinkers a warm welcome
STORY BY LINDA HERMIZ With winter approaching, it may sound outrageous to visit a bar made entirely of ice, but the Chill Ice House in Toronto is busier than ever this season. Though it appears to be a regular bar on the outside, the Chill Ice House is actually an arctic paradise where the tables,…
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Walking through the life of Kubrick at TIFF
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN From his self-taught roots in the trenches of anti-war filmmaking, to a space odyssey that would set a precedent for an entire genre — Stanley Kubrick is the subject of the most ambitious exhibition to hit the TIFF Bell Lightbox. TIFF’s largest show to date, it features nearly 1,000 artifacts and…