Still from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita courtesy TIFF. Earlier this week, TIFF Bell Lightbox announced their third major exhibition, set to take over the building’s gallery between June 30 and September 8. Following their kickoff exhibition, Essential Cinema, and its impressive followup paying tribute to the work of Tim Burton, the Lightbox now prepares [...]

Photo of Snooki courtesy of MTV.ca. Alright, so maybe we just liked Snooki best because she was cheap. At a reported two thousand USD plus travel costs for public appearances, the littlest one seemed a steal compared to Pauly D. or The Situation’s demand for seventy-five hundred dollars. But now, a month after Jersey Shore‘s [...]

Culture Club is Torontoist’s (brand new) Canadian pop culture column. We’ll be waxing philosophical about the trivial, the titillating, and the mundane on a bi-weekly basis. Illustration by Kyra Kendall/Torontoist. “Us? Really? Here? Really?” It’s true, Toronto, isn’t it? We often react to mentions of our city—and our city’s current or former residents—in non-Canadian contexts [...]

Photo by Brian Towie/Torontoist. Michael Lambert wants to dispel the myth of the “yo-dog.” The 2010 Olympic torchbearer and snowboarding hopeful would like to point out that the lifestyle of those who zip down snowy slopes, uber-cool to outsiders though it may be, isn’t all fun and games. It’s certainly not about hitting the bong, [...]

Photo of an Eye Weekly box outside of MTV’s headquarters by Andrew Louis/Torontoist. On Tuesday, Eye published “The new NewMusic?”, a fawning article about how MTV, and specifically MTV News, embodies all that was once great but is no longer about MuchMusic and The NewMusic. It’s been updated a bit since then, but Google caught [...]

Tamarama, featuring The City‘s Jay Lyon, takes the stage at STAND Canada’s Darfur benefit concert. When Tamarama rolled into town for STAND Canada’s latest Darfur benefit concert, they encountered a mob of fawning teenagers and twenty-somethings. Indeed, the transplanted Australian-American reggae-rockers found a half-capacity, albeit captive, audience at Toronto’s Berkeley Church last week. And the [...]

One small step for Toronto, and a giant step down for the rest of mankind. It’s not that we care about The City, MTV’s big apple version of the gossip- and “work”-based reality show The Hills. And there’s no way we were glued to our TVs last night, taking notes and screencaps of the outfits [...]

We’ve said it before: MuchMusic kinda sucks nowadays. Dave Bidini says the same thing, but more eloquently, in his column at This Magazine. The front man of the now-defunct Rheostatics reminisces about a time when his band was “afforded two hours at midnight to present bands live in an empty garage studio in the bowels [...]

Sure, they penned the obviously raddest one-hit-wonder of 1996, but since that fateful year, full of cheerleaders and homoerotic football players, Nada Surf have continued to rage against the dying of that hit-single light. They may have fallen off MTV’s radar, but so have most things north of Christina Aguilera’s baby-bump. Since leaving Elektra in [...]