Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'frontline'
March 3, 2008
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 and that the show airs on Al Jazeera English, chances are that Frontline: USA won't be a Dobbsian exercise......
Continue Reading "Avi Lewis's America"October 27, 2007
There's an old cliché that says everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. It follows, then, that everyone is goth on Halloween . If you’re going to be exploring your inner goth anyway, you may as well go hog wild and get your little black-clad tuchus down to the fourth edition of EBM Fest at The Reverb (651 Queen Street West) on October 28, where the folks who live Halloween every day will be......
Continue Reading "In Touch With Your Inner Goth"January 7, 2005
Chalk it up to the parade of pap that we've been watching of late, but TOist is going to go dramatically serious for this evening's marquee film recommendation. Hotel Rwanda won the audience award at TIFF, which could mean as little as it could mean a lot. But you go to a film like Hotel Rwanda not so much to like it as to feel it. It won't be a Sunday at the pool in......
Continue Reading "Film Fridays: Hotel Rwanda"