Photo by David Spigolon. Just over a decade ago in the basement of a SoHo café, playwright Eve Ensler began performing a series of moving and celebratory monologues dealing with the shame many women have over their physiology and sexuality. Since then, The Vagina Monologues has evolved to legendary fame, so far staged in 120 [...]

Today’s Reviews: You, The Living One of the most critically acclaimed films of the festival so far, You, The Living (pictured above), is a very warm look at the hopes and dreams of the misfit inhabitants of a Swedish apartment complex, told through a series of vignettes. From Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor), [...]

When Larry LeBlanc of Billboard sent us a letter written by Canadian music megaproducer Bob Ezrin, we were intrigued. With the possible exception of new superpower Steve Jobs, the music industry has been circling the drain in recent years, temporarily jamming the flow with the barely-explored careers of too many worthy artists. Bob Ezrin has [...]

Sad news from New Orleans, where during a recent spate of violence one of the victims was Helen Hill, filmmaker and animation teacher who worked for many years in the Halifax scene and the Atlantic co-op, and friend of many in Toronto’s indie film. Helen was affiliated with the Super 8 festival in Toronto and [...]

Let’s look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa… -Austinist reveled in the dumb antics of some U.T. law students and posted some great audio from former New Orleans natives who’ve decided to stay in Austin. But the best news for Austinist? They were voted Best [...]

We love Word on the Street but we always find there’s way too much to do. So we’ve scoured the WOTS program and picked out the three things that you should try to hit up this Sunday at Queen’s Park. Best of all, the whole event is free. 1) Margaret Atwood and the Long Pen [...]

Unlike usual, this isn’t a post about a single programme at TIFF, but we’re going to let this one slip by as it used to be the Planet Africa programme, and the selection is really, really good this year. There’s the world premiere of Kevin MacDonald’s The Last King of Scotland, the adaptation of Giles [...]

Katrina Onstad and Leah McLaren aren’t the only female Toronto journalists penning autobiographically inspired works of literature. The insightful Lynn Crosbie is releasing her much anticipated new book Liar. Excerpts that Torontoist has read left us thinking about our own failed relationships, on the nature of love, betrayal and the cruelties that men and women [...]

Queen or Leah McLaren? Tonight, McLaren will be sharing the stage at the Gladstone with Katrina Onstad. Canada AM’s Seamus O’Regan might want to wear a black and white ref’s jersey just in case a fight breaks out between the two of them, seeing how Onstad makes not so veiled insults at McLaren in her [...]

Admittedly, the story of an urban columnist who drinks crantini’s sets off alarm bells. It sounds well-traveled because it is well-traveled; the ghost of a horrible TV show that we will not mention still haunts us years after the fact. But the story of Maxine, an urban columnist who drinks crantini’s in How Happy To [...]

Number of people shouting ‘Do It’ at the Leafs, as the Sens beat the Leafs on Wednesday, at the Monarch Pub: 36 Amount by which the cost of a chicken burrito at Bar Burrito exceeds that of a chicken burrito at Taco El Asador (with $1.00 factored in for extra guacamole): $0.11 Approximate percentage by [...]