Culture
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Urbanist Picks at Hot Docs 2014
Hots Docs is only a few days away! Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the documentary festival will be screening 197 films from around the world from April...
By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby -
Is Toronto’s music scene segregated by race, class, & geography? The NICE show hopes to change that
EDITOR’S NOTE: NICE is a new curatorial collaboration between two veteran music promoters: independent presenter Dalton Higgins — a well-known...
By Spacing -
On loving Toronto — memories of the Annex and discovering Scarborough
EDITORS NOTE: We’re pleased to publish this meditation on being from Toronto by Christina Wong. Christina recently got her PhD in Music...
By Spacing -
La Ville Reine — The French underground is all around us in Toronto
Last week I was driving along College enjoying a jazzy groove on 90.3 FM Espace Musique. When the song ended and the hosts returned to their banter, I...
By Daniel Rotsztain -
Started from the bottom now we’re here
The exhibition “Hands-On Urbanism: How to Make a Difference,” at Urbanspace Gallery until March 7th, showcases stories of groups of people — who aren’t...
By Dale Duncan -
Artists on the Underground: movie and panel discussion
I’ll be part of a panel discussion on Saturday night after a showing of the movie “Artists on the Underground” – a documentary...
By Dylan Reid -
EVENT: Public lecture on Race & Justice in Toronto
The Justice in Toronto lecture series will hold its first event of 2014 tomorrow (Thursday, January 30th) with a free lecture and discussion on Race &...
By Dale Duncan -
Frustrated by obstructive sidewalk condo ads, Toronto artists get creative
Toronto artists Sean Martindale, Adam Krawesky, and Martin Reis are tired of sandwich-board condo ads cluttering the city’s sidewalks, so they’ve used...
By Josh Sherman -
EVENT — The Andrew Project book launch Saturday Oct 23
You may recall seeing posters around town of a hand drawn gentleman with the name “Andrew” underneath a few years ago. I took a photo one of...
By Shawn Micallef -
Event & exhibition: Telling — An audio survey of Parkdale
A new exhibition curated by Gallery 1313 has set site-specific audio art works throughout Parkdale until November 30th. Stop by the gallery on a Parkdale...
By Shawn Micallef -
Double Event: Toronto the Good party & a Detroit + Toronto Symposium Friday Oct 25
It’s Toronto the Good time again, the annual party that celebrates Toronto for the sake of Toronto. This time it’s a little more serious as...
By Shawn Micallef -
A Torontonian abroad: German tourism, first impressions and Canada’s Wonderland
I became familiar with a certain reality of tourism a month ago on a full-fledged ‘euro trip’. The reality was, it would impossible to comprehend the fine...
By Sheraz Khan