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Sound Tracks: “Josie” by The Darcys

The Darcys chronicle the very sad, sad, sad lives of Toronto girls about town in the video for "Josie," the latest from their Steely Dan tribute album, AJA.

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. On the frontlines of an up-and-coming generation of Arts & Crafters, Toronto art-rocking foursome The Darcys are staying true [...]

Making His Ode to Joy of Books

A Toronto ad man devotes over 50 hours of physical labour to bring the magic of books to life in a stop-motion viral sensation.

At a time of e-books and rising rent, Toronto is mourning the loss of independent bookstores like Dragon Lady Comics, The Book Mark, and Glad Day; a recent history filled with many other closures; and bitter twists like the conversion of Pages Books & Magazines (into a condo sales centre). Book-lovers were in need of [...]

Nerds Gone Wild for Found Footage

Mr. Dressup-lookalike posing as a Viking for a video dating service, circa 1987. Wayne and Garth impersonators. Pregnant-celebrity exercise videos. Wieners and vomit. This Thursday night, at the Bloor Cinema, prepare to immerse yourself in the Found Footage Festival: a “celebration of bad videos,” where the humour is always unintentional and male full-frontal nudity is [...]

2010 Villain: Bandwidth Caps

While it may seem a tad cliché to take a few whacks at Bell and Rogers, Canada’s foremost internet service providers, this year they deserve our scorn more than ever for one clear reason: bandwidth caps.

Sound Tracks: “Drain the Blood” by Rural Alberta Advantage

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. It’s been a banner year for the Rural Alberta Advantage—their self-released album garnered such a strong grassroots buzz that [...]

Sound Tracks: “The Legion Sessions” by Great Lake Swimmers

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. More often than not, bands now forgo the traditional production elements of music videos and instead make use of [...]

Subway Sing-Along

The folks from Improv In Toronto were up to their old tricks recently, bringing some more whimsy to unsuspecting underground commuters. Those familiar with the merry band of urban pranksters know the drill: participants meet up, head to a public place, and do something unexpected to make onlookers’ days just a little more interesting. In [...]

But Is It Art?

If dropping stuff off of a building is too high-concept for you, or if you still haven’t decided whether or not to go see Blinkenlights at Nathan Phillips Square tonight for Nuit Blanche (or any other nuit until October 12) and that amazing iPhone app wasn’t enough to sway you, boy, have we got the [...]

Train Derails, Soldier Bails, Barenaked Lady Fails

Omar Khadr’s lawyers recently released video footage of Khadr’s interrogation by CSIS agents in hopes that the video would embarrass the Prime Minister and garner sympathy from Canadians. Unsurprisingly, the PM’s office wasn’t hearing that noise. Clearly these lawyers don’t know how hard it is to embarrass Stephen Harper. Speaking of Canadians in trouble in [...]

Tall Poppy Interview: Boozy Suzy

Boozy Suzy is the undisputed champion of the Pillow Fight League. When she’s not downing beers, she’s downing opponents with her dreaded hammer fist. Boozy Suzy is also Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot, an event coordinator who has been involved with the Pillow Fight League since its inception. She has watched the girls-only league grow from a local [...]

Avi Lewis’s America

According to the Inside the CBC blog and the National Post, Toronto’s favourite boyish-looking provocateur, Avi Lewis, is back on the airwaves with his newest show, Frontline: USA. The show promises to “strip away the spin and highlight real issues such as poverty, violence, race, health, and immigration” in America. Considering that Lewis is involved [...]

Queen West Burns Mess, Land Tax Earns Less, Serbia Yearns Best

Fire at Queen and Bathurst. Adios to Duke’s, the Suspect Video outlet, and a bunch of other cool places. Check out Torontoist’s coverage of the fire here and here and here––Queen West will be closed until next week. Home sales in Toronto drop significantly after land tax kicks in. Of course, one has to account [...]