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TIFF’s Cannes Critics Week: Spirit of the Beehive and Clerks

By Kiva Reardon

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I Want Your Job: Adrianne Pieczonka

We chatted with one of Canada's biggest opera stars to find out more about her special line of work.

By Kelli Korducki • Photos by Lodoe-Laura Haines-Wangda

The singer, preparing for dress rehearsal.
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Heroes and Villains 2011:
Superhero and Supervillain of the Year

The votes are in! See who you picked as the very best and very worst of Toronto this year.

By Torontoist • Illustrations by Chloe Cushman

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Toronto’s Unsolved Mysteries of 2011

As the year winds down, a roundup of lingering questions.

By Steve Kupferman

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2011 Hero: Toronto Underground Cinema

Nominated for: bringing new life to independent cinema in Toronto.

By Jaime Woo • Illustration by Brian McLachlan

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TIFF Nexus Takes On Gender in Film, Games, and New Media

Game culture is working on inclusivity and gender equality, to the benefit of the games it's producing.

By Jaime Woo

Keynote Leigh Alexander shares her advice for women entering the games industry. Photo from the TIFF Nexus website.

Urban Planner: December 16, 2011

In today's Urban Planner: critics choose a classical concert program; lots of last-chance theatre choices, like The Children's Republic; rap battles and ladystaches at Comedy Bar; Bocce plays Don't Touch That Dial; and the Rural Alberta Advantage DJs a birthday party.

By Steve Fisher

Teacher Ms. Singer (Amy Rutherford) faces the "children's court" while Dr. Korczak (Peter Hutt) looks on in The Children's Republic. Phot by Cylla von Tiedmann.
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A Moustache Award, In Honour of Jack

This Hour Has 22 Minutes has found a unique way of immortalizing Jack Layton—or, at any rate, his facial hair.

By Steve Kupferman

From left to right: Ron MacLean, Brian Hurley, Olivia Chow, The Jack, Craig Lynch, Mike Tolensky, and Mark Critch. Photo courtesy of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
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Weekend Planner: November 26–27, 2011

In this Weekend Planner: the Whole Life Expo teaches everyone how to get healthy, a Beatles tribute show wants to hold your hand, the ROM presents an intimate talk on the culture of Mexican art, fireworks light up City Hall, a local artist samples music to great effect, and check out a dual book reading that has its roots in NYC.

By Kyle Bachan

Kids & Explosions, who makes new music out of old music, is playing a gig this weekend. Photo courtesy of Kat Stewart.

Historicist: The Lasting Legacy of Darling and Pearson

Frank Darling and John A. Pearson defined an era in Canadian architecture.

By Kevin Plummer

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Televisualist: American TV Executives Ruin Everything

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist.

By Christopher Bird • Illustration by Brett Lamb

You're right, TSN, nothing screams athleticism like a bunch of dudes sitting around a table, smoking, and eating pretzels.

Audiences “Woah Woah” as Toronto Draws Tintin

In ink or in pixels, on the sea or in the air, as a lady or as an elder, this exhibit shows there are endless ways to represent the beloved comic character.

By Zack Kotzer

While {a href="http://www.rodrigobravo.ca/"}Rodrigo Bravo{/a}'s no stranger to Red Dead Redemption, the Southern influence in his drawing has more to do with his childhood in Chile.

The Ugly One Plays Both Faces Well

Theatre Smash's premiere of German playwright Marius von Mayenburg's subversive little allegory play looks good, earns laughs, and plays well—in part due to veteran actor Hardee T. Lineham's brusque turns.

By Steve Fisher

Naomi Wright and Hardee T. Lineham discuss the drastic facial reconfiguration of David Jansen's Lette in Theatre Smash's production of The Ugly One. Photo by James Heaslip.
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Reel Toronto: Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

By David Fleischer

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Sneak Peeks of Nuit Blanche 2011: The CFC Media Lab

The Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab offers five interactive new media installations in Technological Displacement for tonight's Nuit Blanche at the Bata Shoe Museum.

By Carly Maga

Alone Together is projected onto the Bata Shoe Museum. Photo by Trevor Haldenby.
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Newsstand: September 27, 2011

For today is Tuesday, all shall behold the tameness of this, the second day of the work week, and marvel at its nothingness. Thank goodness for news! Today: one councillor thinks it's time to stop this amalgamation nonsense, police redraw their boundaries, TCHC abandons plans for a new affordable housing building, and an evil plant is lurking in our midst.

By Sarah-Joyce Battersby • Illustration by Kyra Kendall

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The Vision Thing

The Canadian Urban Institute brought four city builders together to discuss whether Toronto has lost its way.

By Jake Tobin Garrett

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Wearing the City on His Sleeve

Jameson Skaife only lived in Toronto for two years. He chose to tattoo the city's skyline on his left sleeve so he'd never really leave.

By Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith

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Urban Planner: September 8, 2011

In today's Urban Planner: TIFF begins! Silent Shout curates the Drake's festival opening party; Chris Locke and pals love life and laughs; The Wilderness of Manitoba return from the wild; Tones of Voice's multimedia theatre; and Hunter and Cook open their doors (and an exhibition).

By Steve Fisher • Photo by Corbin Smith

Powers' Jamie Matechuk and his bandmates play Silent Shout's TIFF opening night party at the Drake Hotel tonight.
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TIFF ’11 Survival Guide: What’s Your Party Style?

Parties, parties, parties. It always seems like you've got too many parties! Here's our guide to weaselling your way into high society during TIFF.

By Justine Iaboni • Illustration by Brian McLachlan

Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist.