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Graphic Novella The Next Day Takes on Suicide

A page from The Next Day. Tina Kardassis, 34, has had a lot of rebuilding to do. As one of four interview subjects for The Next Day, a new graphic novella and interactive animated documentary based on surviving attempted suicide, she has opened up and revealed some of the most intimate details of her life—but [...]

Subway Suicide Statistics Released

Photo by tomms from the Torontoist Flickr pool. Suicide by subway train has always been an issue kept under wraps by the TTC. At the risk of spawning copycat attempts, even the mainstream media have agreed to a blackout, leading to frequent speculation about train delays and loudspeaker codes. The frequency of these incidents has [...]

Yes, Virgin, There is a Sanity Clause

Photo taken at Trethewey Dr. and Todd Baylis Blvd. on the evening of Wednesday, May 6, by Rami Tabello. Astral Media Outdoor uses Geotargeting Exclusive Solution—a proprietary GIS program mashing up consumer data from Generation5 and cartographic software from MapInfo—in order to allow “you to concentrate advertising faces exactly where your target customers are found. [...]

TTC Kills the Radio Star

Photo by David Topping/Torontoist. You know what’s hilarious? Ads that make fun of suicide. Why, they’re right up there with the ones that make light of rape. You know what else is hilarious? When a company makes an ass out of the government agency from which it would one day like a contract. Oh, Astral [...]

Live Baby Live – Week of Oct. 9

Hoooo boy! Looks like somebody fed us way too much turkey this weekend. We’ve just come out of our tryptophan-induced comas and realized we lost an entire day. Not only do we have to deal with our tardiness, but also figure out what to do with that permanent dent in the couch. If you can [...]

It’s Better to Burn Out Than Be Unreleased

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 [...]

High School Confidential

Perhaps sampling Rockapella (Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? fame) and referencing Jonathan Swift and his Modest Proposal in your lyrics doesn’t seem like the best way to develop one of Toronto’s most loyal fanbases. But it’s worked like a charm for Ninja High School, who also tap local hot button items like [...]

Da Vinci’s Ingest

Last night, before catching the opening night of Darren O’Donnell’s A Suicide-Site Guide to the City at Buddies in Bad Times, Torontoist stopped in Kathmandu (417 Yonge St., 416 924 5787) for a little Indian/Nepalese pre-theatre dining. While we were chowing down on some Lamb Saag and reading a day-old Metro — oh, Enza the [...]

O’Donnell to Toronto Theatre: Sssooorrrrrryyyy!

Local playwright Darren O’Donnell got himself in a bit of trouble the other day, when he told Eye’s Paul Isaac that the Toronto theatre scene was, by and large, “worthless.” That’s just not something that you say. Especially when your contribution to the year in theatre was a garbled piece of new-agey nonsense called pppeeeaaaccceee. [...]

Exploring The Life Aquatic Soundtrack Without Mention of Bill Murray

With New Order’s “Ceremony” featured prominently in the The Life Aquatic trailer, one might assume that Wes Anderson had updated his soundtrack cuts from the late 60′s pop gems of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums to now include like-minded pop gems from the late 70′s. With this week’s release of The Life Aquatic [...]