Photo by Bradley J. Reinhardt from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. “When I was a kid and I started doing this, I thought I invented hip hop. And then when I began to leave my little world, where it was all happening in my bedroom in Mount Uniake, and I discovered that there were some other [...]

Attention residents of the tri-city area: much of the cast of SCTV is reuniting for a single live performance in Toronto on Monday, May 5 at 8 p.m. The occasion is a benefit for the Alumni Fund for Second City cast and crew facing financial or health difficulties. It’s bound to be difficult for the [...]

At first we assumed it was Scientology. After all, who else has the money to produce and purchase space for such glossy anti-pharmaceutical ads, which have been popping up all over transit shelters and buses in Ontario and Montreal? Google wasn’t much help, and their Blog Search just pointed us to other people as perplexed [...]

Something is in the air at Bluenotes, and it smells like stupid. In a move that could reduce the most articulate champion of women’s issues into a slack-jawed heap, the denim retailer has released a men’s t-shirt (as shown) that undermines the Canadian Federation of Students’ campaign against sexual assault, from which the shirts poach [...]

Michael Ignatieff is a popular guy. He has 171 friends in Toronto, 66 at Queen’s and 60 at McGill. His favourite music is by Glenn Gould and his favourite movie is The Godfather Part I. He’s married, interested in women, and looking for friendship. Online friendship – on Facebook, the ever-expanding online social network. In [...]

By virtue of the world wide web, Neil Young’s famous 1973 concert recording, Time Fades Away, is now available in digital format. Online petitions abound, the classic Young performance has been mythologized as one of the greatest live performances not for sale – supposedly on par with Dylan’s Newport performance since Young peeved off the [...]