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Sound Tracks: “Wide Open” by Jenny Mayhem

Jenny Mayhem's debut video is an unabashed love letter to department store Honest Ed's, and a more tongue in cheek wink at the "blowing up" Toronto indie music scene.

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. Indie-folk singer Jenny Mayhem certainly isn’t the first Toronto musician to use seminal discount emporium Honest Ed’s to display [...]

Who’s Behind Toronto Media’s Tweets

Twitter is a medium especially well-suited to self-indulgence. When it comes to the organizations that take up roost, though, the hands that supply the tweets are often hidden—and when it comes to media organizations, that invisibility offers a bit of anonymity that journalists don’t otherwise get a shot at. (Only a few Toronto media outlets’ [...]

Mind Your Manors

A few nerdy dudes, two couches in an otherwise barren basement, and a video camera. With MuchMusic turned over to Leah Miller’s minions and whomever wins the all-pervasive VJ Search 2.0, this simple format stands as a striking alternative to the glamorous folk with the obnoxiously loud in-studio audience on Queen West. But with the [...]

Urban Planner: April 30, 2009

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo of Anahita Azrahimi’s Vogue II – B & W by Nick Coombe. ART: The Gladstone’s Art Bar hosts an [...]