Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'sparks'
May 24, 2007
Thousands of crane and heavy equipment operators go on strike. So if you needed to lift something really heavy, well, you should have done that last week. Jordin Sparks wins American Idol. Now she will go on to have a career as brilliantly successful as Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, and that crazy dude with the prematurely white hair from last season who rips off Joe Cocker's shtick. And in ten months' time, Fox will......
Continue Reading "No Cranes For You, Somebody Wins American Idol, and FC Ties Big Important European Soccer Team"March 12, 2007
L’Oréal Fashion Week kicked off this morning with an 11 a.m. press conference at Queen's Park. Seems the Ontario government excludes fashion from its definition of culture. So members of the Fashion Design Council of Canada want fashion visionaries to get the same recognition as their colleagues in art, dance, theatre and music. Clearly Toronto Fashion Week isn't the same kind of high-octane glamathon as Paris or Milan. In fact, most shows will be......
Continue Reading "What Will You Be Wearing Next Fall?"August 3, 2006
Dear Editors, This letter concerns your August 2nd performance at the Opera House. Let me just start by congratulating you - you really pulled it off. I wasn't sure that you'd be able to. I mean, you made us wait through two opening bands (first one good, second one bad) and three hours before you finally came on, which meant that everyone was kinda pissed off by the time you started. Three hours is......
Continue Reading "A Letter to the Editors"July 20, 2005
Are you always searching for that something, or someone, special? Something like a new song to rekindle long lost feelings. If music is that special love you seek... good luck, for music can be a cruel mistress/mister. Oh, you think you know what you're doing, you've been listening to and buying music for years. BUT there are some bad matches out there, ones that cry out for help, couples that need guidance, directions away from......
Continue Reading "Mixtape: The 'Match' Tape"