Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'wicked'
February 16, 2008
Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. At work the other day a co-worker stated he was off to Club Wicked. Can you tell me how they get away with "sex" in that club? I understand he stated it was because it is registered as a "private club" but would like to know more. I'm sure one of your "roving reporters" would love to take this......
Continue Reading "Snappy Answers: Swingers Sex and Sexy Drinks"December 11, 2006
Overheard in the lobby halfway through the second act of Wicked, the "spellbinding musical" at the Canon Theatre. An usher approaches a couple exiting with their coats. Usher: Is everything alright? Man: Yes. We just couldn't be in there anymore. Usher: Was there a problem? Woman: There's just too much singing.......
Continue Reading "What was Streeter expecting?"August 11, 2006
Ah, another week, another Film Friday. But wait! There’s something special this week to break up the monotony! An extra special review of the (heavily delayed) Pulse brought to us by our superhuman photographer and co-editor David Topping. What do you have to say about it, David? Pulse may be both the worst and best movie of all time. It's not an even halfway-decent horror movie, so don't go expecting something like The Shining -......
Continue Reading "Film Friday: Every Week, There is a Column, which DEFINES A GENERATION."May 9, 2006
In due time, you'll be able to fold a map of city in half, with Yonge Street as the crease, and witness the more or less symmetry in Starbucks locations on Queen Street. One Starbucks is on Queen West in Beaconsfield, site of the infamous "Drake you ho this is all your fault" tag of last year. The other is planned for Queen East in Leslieville, home of the infamous commenter Joe Clark. More......
Continue Reading "Leslieville, the New Queen West?"November 29, 2004
Just from the three or four lines exchanged between the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch, you could tell there was a little bit of history there. It turns out the two witches actually had a close, non-sexual relationship - according to the stage production of Wicked. The outgrowth of the classic Wizard of Oz looks at the complicated lives of witches, and acts as a prequel to the well known......
Continue Reading "Mean Witches"