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
One weekend, two Art Battle events, and the paint went flying. Queen West Art Crawlers got a free mini-taste of the staple monthly AB event with two one on one paint-offs at The Gladstone Ballroom on Friday where Keita Morimoto walked away victorious, having stunned the crowd with his unique,... More
My second time attending the Toronto International Film Festival has been a less than ecstatic experience so far, but that’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed myself. Toronto is at its best during the festival; the beautiful Ontario September weather creates ideal conditions for both sitting in crowded movie theatres... More
I molested approximately six hours of my life at last year’s Fascist Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Canada. Fascist Nuit Blanche is the city’s self-proclaimed “all-night contemporary art thing.” While the city managed to squeeze several marvelous exhibits out of its Totalitarian stranglehold on the night, most notably the work of... 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
A review of Art Battle 14 / Interview with creator, Chris Pemberton Above a small store on Queen West, I enter Casa de Simon Plashkes. Chris Pemberton, who created Art Battle with Plashkes, is sitting in front of a computer listening to Beirut. He offers me a beer and I... 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
One weekend, two Art Battle events, and the paint went flying. Queen West Art Crawlers got a free mini-taste of the staple monthly AB event with two one on one paint-offs at The Gladstone Ballroom on Friday where Keita Morimoto walked away victorious, having stunned the crowd with his unique,... More
My second time attending the Toronto International Film Festival has been a less than ecstatic experience so far, but that’s not to say I haven’t enjoyed myself. Toronto is at its best during the festival; the beautiful Ontario September weather creates ideal conditions for both sitting in crowded movie theatres... More
I molested approximately six hours of my life at last year’s Fascist Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Canada. Fascist Nuit Blanche is the city’s self-proclaimed “all-night contemporary art thing.” While the city managed to squeeze several marvelous exhibits out of its Totalitarian stranglehold on the night, most notably the work of... 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
A review of Art Battle 14 / Interview with creator, Chris Pemberton Above a small store on Queen West, I enter Casa de Simon Plashkes. Chris Pemberton, who created Art Battle with Plashkes, is sitting in front of a computer listening to Beirut. He offers me a beer and I... More
