Photo by Arline Malakian. Courtesy of Lucian Matis. Lucian Matis's Fall 2008 line premieres at L'Oréal Fashion Week on March 18, but the designer is oddly calm: "I’m not nervous at all," he says in his Bloorcourt Village studio. "It's almost like I don't know the show's coming." It’s a surprising response from a designer who will be watched closely after having broken through into Canadian consciousness: his work has been showcased on Canada's......

Toronto native Lucian Matis, 28, landed in second place behind Evan Biddell, a 24-year-old designer from Saskatoon, on the finale of Project Runway Canada last night. Matis, Biddell, and third-placer Marie Genevieve Cyr showed ten-piece collections at Toronto's L'Oréal Fashion Week in October as the final challenge of the reality show. The runway shows were performed in front of an audience and evaluated by the Runway judges: supermodel Iman, Elle Canada Editor Rita Silvan, and......

Finally, another excuse to write about La Blogothèque's Take-Away Shows. The last time we covered the France-based music filmmakers, they were psyching us up for the Arcade Fire's May concert with the best concert footage we've ever seen of the band. Before that, they won us over with The Hidden Cameras parading along boardwalks. Now they've given us Owen Pallett plucking away at two songs––"Your Light Is Spent" (above) and "Horsetail Feathers"––in Paris. If......

If you were one of the many Arcade Fire fans not lucky enough to grab tickets to one of the band's Massey Hall shows on May 15 and 16, we can but offer two paltry consolation prizes. The first, above, is a brilliant video by La Blogotheque/Take Away Shows, of the band at their March 19 show in Paris. It is, far and away, the best concert footage that we've ever seen of the......

Shakespeare in the Rough's production of Antony & Cleopatra (directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones) is taking place in Withrow Park from Saturday August 5 to Labour Day, Monday, September 4. But if you can't wait for your dose of the Bard, you can catch a preview tormorrow and Friday evenings at 7pm. Shows run Wednesdays through Saturday at 7pm and on Sundays and holiday Mondays at 2pm. Admission is pay what you can, with a......

Tall Poppy Interview - Amanda Walsh, Actor...

If this TOist post were an Amazon book page it would say 'Customers who purchased Spellbound also purchased Mad Hot Ballroom.' But it would only say that because every bloody review feels compelled to refer to this doc, about grade school dancers of various socio-economic backgrounds, as the next Spellbound. Maybe it is, but TOist thinks the formula Spellbound + ballroom dancing = Mad Hot Ballroom is a bit simplistic. For once, it would be......

Between the screaming thirteen year olds and the creepy older men, Torontoist somehow managed to grab a front row ticket to the Live at Much House of Wax "special red carpet edition." Sure, watching from the comfort of your own couch and television is fun, but it's much more satisfying to be part of the live action. After all, where else can you be shoved by a Chanel-wearing fifteen-year-old because she needs to get her......

We feel we shouldn't like her but we do. Her show's a guilt-inducing pleasure even when she's not making something brazenly unhealthy. What is it about Nigella? Why does Nigella Bites not reek of poor production values and poorer taste, like so many of the other home-house-help shows out there? Torontoist doesn't presume to have a well broiled answer, but we do think one may be in the air when the Brit bombshell herself signs......