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Wild Toronto: Nighthawk

Wild Toronto is a bi-weekly comic strip about the animals and plants that make a living in our city. Rosemary Mosco makes the comics, and would love to hear your suggestions (in the comments!) on wildlife to be profiled.

Wild Toronto: Monarch Butterfly

CanStage Can’t Con CanCon

Gossip no longer, culture vultures. We’ve finally got confirmation on CanStage’s upcoming season. Like it or not, it looks like the rumours are true. As we reported before, the Bluma Appel Theatre’s rather commercial lineup is entirely free of any Canadian-written shows, which has some folks in quite a tizzy. And as we suspected, CanStage [...]

Wild Toronto: House Mouse

Film Friday: Malcolm Jamal-Warner’s Rastafarian Rap Battle

Hello, and welcome to another installment of everyone’s favourite film column in which the writer makes up their opinions on the weeks films largely based on what trailers they’ve seen on TV. This week we didn’t watch much (busy watching our IT Crowd Series 2 and Metalocalypse DVDs) so the only one which managed to [...]

Wild Toronto: Pigeon

Wild Toronto is a new bi-weekly comic strip about the animals and plants that make a living in our city. Rosemary Mosco of Birdandmoon.com makes the comics, and would love to hear your suggestions (in the comments!) on wildlife to be profiled.

Wild Toronto: Cicada

Tarragon Serves Up Love and War

There is a moment near the end of the first act of Maureen Hunter’s play Wild Mouth when Oliver Becker, playing the tortured Ukrainian WWI vet Bohdan, grabs Sarah Orenstein as proto-feminist anti-war Englishwoman Anna (pictured, left), douses her in pig’s blood, and then rubs the animal’s heart all over her face and body. It’s [...]

Fashionista Alert: Anti-Fur Protest in Yorkville

Attention Wintourites, Olsen fan club members, and other fabulously fur-clad denizens of our fair city: It’s January. It’s freaking cold. Yes, the Weather Network says it’s going to be unseasonably warm any day now, but we’ll believe that when we stop seeing our breath—indoors. So, when you arise to minus-whatever temperatures tomorrow, bundle up in [...]

Wild Toronto: Kestrel

Wild Toronto is a bi-weekly comic strip about the animals and plants that make a living in our city. Rosemary Mosco of Birdandmoon.com makes the comics, and would love to hear your suggestions (in the comments!) on wildlife to be profiled.

Things Are on Sale, Terrorists Are In Jail, And So Is The Girls Gone Wild Dude

It’s Boxing Day! Go spend money! If you don’t, Canada’s economy will suffer and it will all be your fault! You probably don’t even own all the seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD yet, do you? You slacker. Turkey explains how well its airstrikes in Kurdish Iraq have worked. Short answer: they worked [...]