Many artists will agree that the creative effort is as important as the final presentation. With this in mind, Noah Mintz (formerly of hHead; presently of Noah’s Arkweld and Mastering Engineer at Lacquer Channel) and Aniko (Creative Director of The Spa Suite at the Gladstone Hotel) have organized an event that foregrounds the often collaborative, spontaneous process of artistic creation: "In an industry where we all get plenty of opportunity to celebrate the finished product......

Lush" src="http://www.torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_marcl/taraspencernairn.jpg" width="640" height="340"> Corner Gas may not be everybody's cup of Ruby coffee, but we've always been big fans of Tara Spencer-Nairn, better known to Canadians these days as Officer Karen Pelly. Though "Karen" has a large stable of drooling fans with cop kinks, the spring issue of Lush brings us Spencer-Nairn out of uniform and as fashion-hot as a smoking Glock 22. The shoot was photographed by Paul Wright, who also captured Hilary......

Last week, Matthew Blackett quietly announced that his comic m@b would be taking an early retirement after four years of syndication in Eye Weekly. "I'm still happy with m@b", he writes, "[but] I've lost the energy to think about it. The spark of inspiration of when I saw someone do something insane, or say something off-kilter, has dulled and rarely goes off these days. I'd rather play Tetris on my cell phone that try to......

When it launched in April of 2003 by real estate developer Christopher Bratty, Toronto-based men's magazine Toro was a critical darling. The glossy won two Folio Awards for design almost immediately, followed with four National Magazine Awards in 2004 (48 NMA nominations in total), then accolades for investigative journalism and fashion photography. Today, news arrives that Toro will immediately suspend publication, with the March 2007 issue scheduled for release on February 20 remaining undistributed. Publisher......