This morning, I joined eager Torontonians who flooded to the Royal Ontario Museum to take a look at vintage dresses by the famed designer Christian Dior.
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This morning, I joined eager Torontonians who flooded to the Royal Ontario Museum to take a look at vintage dresses by the famed designer Christian Dior.
There were three speakers, including activist and Holocaust survivor Gerda Frieberg, who illuminated the issues surrounding freedom of speech and Holocaust denial.
The latest workspace joining the mix will take up residence at the former Hoxton nightclub, at 69 Bathurst Street, in downtown Toronto. I checked it out ahead of its grand opening next week.
Last month, I sat down with Monica Ruffo, the creator of an all-natural supplements company and breast cancer survivor
As I prepare to release the second half of an investigative piece I wrote about the Church of Scientology in Toronto, I wanted to share the experience of one ex-member.
An exhibit dedicated to film director Guillermo Del Toro opened at the Art Gallery of Ontario, called At Home with Monsters.
I was scrolling through my Instagram explore page when I saw a post about the Bad Girls Collective, a book club inspired and dedicated to connecting women around the city and discussing great literature.
This month, I got to meet Andrew Forde, a Toronto-based violinist who has been working on a new project inspired by Glenn Gould. (In case you didn't know, Gould is one of the most well-known Canadian pianists, but as Forde pointed out, was extremely eccentric.) I sat down with Forde at Revolution Recording in Leslieville while he worked on a track with rapper Shad. I wrote about it for Metro Toronto, but Forde had more to say about Gould's and his own philosophies on music, performing, his next steps, and his partnership with Roots Canada.
I got to talk to Lido right after her Polaris Music Prize win for best Canadian album, when she was awarded $50,000 for La Papessa.
Ellen Wong discusses how her parents disapproved of her acting career at first, as well as being continuously asked to play the "bubbly sidekick" and how she broke out of that stereotype with her role in GLOW, a new Netflix series about women's wrestling.
Some insight from former a Scientologist after the premier of A&E's docu-series Scientology and The Aftermath.
The ocean is cool. It's home to sharks, which horrify me, but also to dolphins and whales!
It started off in an innocent way. I had recently decided to start freelancing full-time after a steady newsroom job and I needed an outlet for my "creativity" (aka boredom) between assignments and interviews.
As you all may know now, the Fyre Festival was really just like a shitty version of a canoe trip with shark-infested waters and sweaty cheese sandwiches instead of *gourmet options* and *glamping tents*
If you're in #Toronto then you were on crane-watch yesterday morning, after a 23-year-old thrill-seeker/woman with a death wish decided to climb a tall ass crane around 3:30 a.m. She gives new meaning to "Going up on a Tuesday"... (Seriously couldn't have planned a better pun if I tried. You're welcome.)
After I hurriedly listened to the S-Town podcast, expertly narrated by Brian Reed, I started thinking about the articles that have been coming out about it. Some conclude that S-Town is exploitative in nature...SPOILERS