Behind-the-scenes corners of the historic Bay building will be available for exploring this weekend. Photo by Metrix X from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
It’s one of our city’s best annual events: Doors Open Toronto, wherein we all get to explore the nooks, crannies, and usually hidden corners of buildings we generally can’t access. There are more than 135 buildings opening their doors this year, and among them are several dozen new ones that haven’t been on the list before.
Here are some highlights from that list—our picks for the best of the sites that are new to Doors Open, many of which are also therefore uncharted territory for all of us. Read More…
It’s telling that in Jill Greenberg’s latest exhibition, “Glass Ceiling,” none of the faces of the women are visible. In fact, these almost-naked women are barely keeping their heads above the water. The world of art—photography, painting, and all—is (let’s face it) still largely a man’s world. Since graduating with a senior thesis entitled The Female Object, Greenberg has explored this state of affairs and broader feminist questions in her work, remarking on the difficulties women face when competing against men.
In 2008 Greenberg came under fire when she, tasked with photographing Republican presidential candidate John McCain for the Atlantic, decided to create political art for her own website and so cast him in a sinister light. She has since noted the incident in her bio as such: “The violent backlash from her political art has informed this return to the question of what is tolerated by women in our culture.”
We recently had a chance to speak with Greenberg (who is currently on a shoot in Brazil) about feminism, shooting underwater, and whether or not the term “glass ceiling” is still an appropriate metaphor for female oppression.
Here’s how a Script Tease works: Ten playwrights submit the first two pages of a new play. Those pages are sealed in individual envelopes. Over the course of a week, three performers from the renowned improv theatre company The National Theatre of the World—Ron Pederson, Naomi Snieckus, and Matt Baram—open each envelope and read its contents for the first time in front of an audience. They are then tasked with immediately improvising the rest of the work over the course of roughly an hour. This year marks the second edition of the event, which starts on Monday and runs until June 3 at Theatre Passe Muraille. We spoke with three participants: performer Ron Pederson, and playwrights Scott Thompson (yes, that Scott Thompson) and Maja Ardal.
A banana-leaf meal and filled buns from Amma's Take Out & Catering. Photo by Sarah Efron.
Tamil cuisine is some of the tastiest food in the world. Lucky for Toronto, we have a large Tamil population from Sri Lanka and South India, and their cuisine is available if you know where to find it. Tamil food is notable for its high spice levels, and it has different combinations of flavours than Indian food.
A shiny new strip mall—or rather, series of strip malls—in northern Scarborough is a great place to try authentic Tamil food. The Market East complex at the southeast corner of Steeles Avenue East and Markham Road, which opened up about two years ago, houses a grocery store, money transfer agency, dental office, jewellery shop, and a newspaper that caters to the nearby Tamil community.
There are two Sri Lankan take-out only restaurants there that offer a mind-blowing variety of food for super low prices. Amma’s Take Out & Catering (3351 Markham Road, Unit A126, 416-754-1211) is a busy place where customers line up to get their orders. And no wonder.
They serve kothu roti, a wonderful dish made of chopped up roti bread cooked with meat. Also on the menu is string hoppers, a rice noodle dish served with curry, and pittu, a rolled cylinder of rice with coconut.
Spice City Toronto explores Toronto’s great hole-in-the-wall restaurants and strip-mall joints serving food from all corners of the world.
CORRECTION: May 25, 2012, 5:40 PM This post originally said that the Market East complex is located in Markham. In fact, it’s in Scarborough, just south of the border with Markham.
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