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Toronto Photographer Donald Weber in Japan

Toronto-based photograph Donald Weber is perhaps best known for his work documenting life in Eastern Europe, particularly in Chernobyl as it still struggles to recover from the disastrous 1986 nuclear accident. More recently, he travelled to Japan to see how that country is contending with its own nuclear disaster, at the Fukushima power plant. To [...]

Show Notes: King Khan & The Shrines at Lee’s Palace, October 8

Khan all pimped out, making love all over that mic. Arish Ahmad “King” Khan has earned his moniker. As garage rock’s second or third or fourth revival edges closer to the mainstream, King Khan has risen to the occasion as the movement’s scantily clad, skull-capped guru. Between his work with bands of Montreal’s late-90s-early-oughts heyday [...]

Sound Advice: Threats/Worship by Lullabye Arkestra

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. While it’s no secret that we’ve got a wimpy soft spot for lush, melodic indie rock with banjos and acoustic guitars, we’re tough enough [...]

Urban Planner: September 4, 2008

WORDS: Chris Carlsson, one of the founders of Critical Mass and the author of 2008′s Nowtopia, is speaking this evening at CineCycle as part of Pages‘ This Is Not A Reading Series. He’ll be discussing Nowtopia, which researches social challenges faced by outlaw bicyclists and others looking to get away from urban consumer lifestyles. Spacing‘s [...]

Vice to Zune: Music Sounds Better With You

The best things in life, everyone knows, aren’t free. The best things in life are things other people have to pay for, and you get for free. Like the 1,000 bottles of beer at the latest of Toronto’s legendary Vice parties, if you were early or lucky or special enough to get into the Deleon [...]

Toronto the Naughty

Photo of Amsterdam’s Red Light District by Stuck in Customs. With all this talk about promoting tourism, all kinds of ideas have been proposed, from improving our toilets to depicting the city as a tattoo. These suggestions are a good start, but it is also important to look at one of the biggest attractions that [...]

The Heavy Metal Photo Show

You may remember our coverage of the excellent Vice film Heavy Metal in Baghdad. A documentary following the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda, we reviewed it at TIFF and called it “one of our top films of the festival” before interviewing one of the directors, Suroosh Alvi. Although Acrassicauda have since managed to escape Iraq [...]