When I got down to St. James Park on Saturday afternoon, I found that the first day of Occupy Toronto seemed to have more the atmosphere of a street festival than a political protest. There were the requisite samba squads providing relentless beats, tonnes of teenagers dancing, and more than... More
There was a time, not too long ago, that this city was brimming with optimistic dialogue about social democracy. The death of Jack Layton had sparked a fire under the left-leaning majority of the downtown core and we were more than willing to speak up and out about the kind... More
There is certain poignant relevance to our contemporary world to found in the themes of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. Albee’s classic centres on the disturbed, lonely, and frantic Jerry, who is desperate to find someone with whom he can make a real human connection. He encounters Peter, a wealthy... More
Once upon a time, I put on a genie costume and kicked Ryan Gosling’s ass in my grade seven lip-sync competition; true story. Once upon this other time, I was walking by Shopper’s Drug Mart when this old fat woman gets chased out of the store by security and accidentally... More
When it comes to live music, we are certainly spoiled here in Toronto. On any given night, you can find literally hundreds of acts filling many a bar and concert hall. Yet when summertime rolls around, we are bombarded with so many festivals that it almost feels as though the... More
There often seems to be very little room for the beautiful in postmodern theatre. Productions which are preoccupied with challenging convention and provoking a reactive response from their audiences tend to neglect any aesthetic in favour of creating challenging and difficult works. While Kadozuke Kollektif’s Codex Nocturno is indeed a... More
When I got down to St. James Park on Saturday afternoon, I found that the first day of Occupy Toronto seemed to have more the atmosphere of a street festival than a political protest. There were the requisite samba squads providing relentless beats, tonnes of teenagers dancing, and more than... More
There was a time, not too long ago, that this city was brimming with optimistic dialogue about social democracy. The death of Jack Layton had sparked a fire under the left-leaning majority of the downtown core and we were more than willing to speak up and out about the kind... More
There is certain poignant relevance to our contemporary world to found in the themes of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. Albee’s classic centres on the disturbed, lonely, and frantic Jerry, who is desperate to find someone with whom he can make a real human connection. He encounters Peter, a wealthy... More
Once upon a time, I put on a genie costume and kicked Ryan Gosling’s ass in my grade seven lip-sync competition; true story. Once upon this other time, I was walking by Shopper’s Drug Mart when this old fat woman gets chased out of the store by security and accidentally... More
When it comes to live music, we are certainly spoiled here in Toronto. On any given night, you can find literally hundreds of acts filling many a bar and concert hall. Yet when summertime rolls around, we are bombarded with so many festivals that it almost feels as though the... More
There often seems to be very little room for the beautiful in postmodern theatre. Productions which are preoccupied with challenging convention and provoking a reactive response from their audiences tend to neglect any aesthetic in favour of creating challenging and difficult works. While Kadozuke Kollektif’s Codex Nocturno is indeed a... More
