Results tagged “common”

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

December is party season, but what if you don't feel like dancing? There's more to holiday dressing than disco-ball metallics and electro-shock hues. Indeed, in today's ever-flashier scene, you're most likely to stand out in a standby—the little black dress. Luckily for you nineties types, local label Common Cloth is a step ahead on the road back to minimalism. For their current fall/winter collection, scissor sisters Melanie Talbot and Kristina Bozzo cut refined, modern...

With music download trends showing that the coveted male 18–24 demographic is more interested in the music of their ancestors than anything current, music store HMV is dropping CD prices on oldies like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. HMV hopes that the move will convince young men to abandon the web and start stealing from retail stores again.

Music blogs love to hate Silversun Pickups, brushing them off as a low rent Smashing Pumpkins. Besides the sound (the Pickups sound uncannily like the Pumpkins circa their criminally-underrated b-side collection Pisces Iscariot), there are the matching initials, the sweet-voiced female bass players and the lanky frontmen with similarly metallic-sounding voices. But when they rolled into the Phoenix on Wednesday night for a sold-out show, they proved that anyone dismissing them as such is missing out in a huge way.

Though you’ll have to hold your herrerasaurs for the long-awaited (and belated) revamping of the Royal Ontario Museum, this weekend the ROM opened a new exhibition on the ancient Peruvian Sicán culture. Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization explores the lesser known pre-Incan society via artefacts from a recent major dig at the Batán Grande archaeological site.

A podcast, in case you didn't know yet, is a downloadable audio or video file, often syndicated through blogs. On February 24 and 25, everyone from podcast amateurs to connoisseurs are welcome to participate in the "unconference" held at Ryerson University. It's fully volunteer operated, and therefore free. All you have to do to join is add your name and information to the wiki and just show up. Not only can anyone attend the seminars and workshops, but anyone can lead one. Among the 35 sessions that will be offered are "Podcast 101," "How to Get 2,427 People to Podcast for a Common Cause," and "Live Interactive Podcasting." You just might learn how to host your own personal "radio show" or how to fund your podcasts with A/V advertisements. The schedule for the weekend is available here.

The Big Carrot, the Danforth's upscale natural food market and the raison d'être of Carrot Common, is nearing the end of its renovations. In business since 1983 and still a workers' cooperative, TBC will be almost half again as large, bringing way more of that organic goodness into our lives and making us feel fully half again as guilty for not always getting the good stuff instead of those chemically aided calories.

A reshuffling of stores in the Carrot Common on the Danforth has given Book City an extra room, adding a third as much space again as they had, already filled to overflowing with booky goodness. Now there are two entrances into the best bookstore in this part of town [map / 348 Danforth Ave Tel: 416-469-9997, one minute walk from Chester Subway Station]

In the year that the popularity of the ringtone might have outweighed the popularity of the single, Toronto-I-S-T comes up with the top ten songs that mattered in 2005.

Excuse the lateness of this post - the Live 8 announcement was this morning - but we've been working on calming ourselves down all day. The jaw-dropping news of a lame-centric Live 8 concert left us in a state of speechless, head shaking shock. After throwing a few chairs and kicking a few garbage cans, we decided that Live 8 might be the worst concert ever held on Canadian soil. Here's our exasperated reaction:

star Paul Gross, have lobbied for the Brier to come back to the Toronto since it left the city in 1941. Former Premier Mike Harris, father of the Common Sense revolution, has also raised eyebrows at the prospect of more curling in the GTA. If the plan follows through to bring the Brier back to its roots (it started here in 1927), longer than average line-ups are expected at local neighbourhood Tim Horton's.