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Seven Things to Do at Fan Expo

... that have nothing to do with this photo of a bunch of Japanese anime girl mousepads where the wrist protectors are their breasts

Not that these mousepads from a previous Fan Expo aren’t very, very special in their own way. Fan Expo is back once more. The annual comic/sci-fi/horror/anime/game convention is now the largest nerd convention in Canada and is widely recognized as one of the most important conventions in North America. This year it moves to the [...]

Laugh Sabbath Celebrates Four Years as the Alternative to Unfunny

Brian Barlow (top) and Sara Hennessey (bottom) Comedy collective Laugh Sabbath, who produce a different monthly show every Sunday in the Rivoli back room, recently celebrated their four year anniversary. Torontoist was there a year earlier to get a primer on the series; we returned this year to chat in detail with returning alumni and [...]

Sunday Funny Sunday

The Laugh Sabbath gang. Photo by Joe Fuda. Sometimes you just gotta sit down over burgers and fries with people who don’t seem to even really get how talented they are. We did this recently with Katie Crown, Sara Hennessy, Nick Flanagan, and Chris Locke at the Rivoli, home of the weekly comedy series Laugh [...]

It’s Getting Hot in Here

Aaron Eves and Chris Locke. Photo by Joe Fuda. Toronto funnymen Aaron Eves and Chris Locke, hosts of the monthly variety show Let’s Get Hot!, celebrate their linen and silk anniversary (that’s four years, people) as a duo tonight at the Rivoli, home to the popular weekend-capping comedy series Laugh Sabbath. LGH virgins can expect [...]

Urban Planner: March 5, 2009

Photo by Meaghan Ogilvie courtesy of Artist Project Toronto. ART: Tonight, the Liberty Grand hosts the opening night preview for Artist Project Toronto. In addition to bringing together works by close to one-hundred-and-fifty artists, this year’s exhibition also features a series of enlightening seminars, a contest for up-and-coming artists, and a chocolate competition (in which [...]

Let ‘Em In On Your Secret Heart

If you’re into Feist, chances are you were at Saturday’s sold-out show at Massey Hall, stink-eyeing anyone bragging within earshot about getting into last week’s much smaller and much secret-er show at Cameron House. Like we said, we didn’t get in either (nor did we get into her impromptu show at Rivoli, but since that’s [...]

Urban Planner: October 15, 2008

FILM: For the ninth year in a row, the imagineNATIVE film festival will feature videos and films by indigenous artists, alongside exhibitions and workshops voicing stories of survival and identity. You may have noticed their Indian Jane posters around—the festival’s annual marketing campaigns cleverly deconstruct Hollywood stereotypes of natives (we’ve been informed that the awesome [...]

72 Little Hours

We’re a month away from Labour Day weekend, and that means it’s almost time for this year’s 3 Day Novel Contest. What is the 3 Day Novel Contest, you ask? Well, it’s exactly as horrifying as it sounds. It’s Vancouver’s answer to NaNoWriMo, except instead of having to hammer out 1,000 words a day for [...]