U of T’s 3rd annual Rock the Runway charity fashion show tore up the runway at the Royal Ontario Museum on Saturday night, with no shortage of flashing cameras and blinding spotlights among the jam-packed rows of eager onlookers. Hosted by the students of Woodsworth College and in support of War Child Canada, the event [...]
Everybody Loves Comedia Italiana!
If a burglar asks you for a drink upon being discovered, chances are he’s not as dangerous as you think. Led by professors Salvatore Bancheri and Guido Pugliese, the Italian theatre troupe Le Maschere Duemondi dell’Università di Toronto a Mississauga (The Two-World Players of UTM) staged a production of Dario Fo’s comedy of errors, Non [...]
Album in review: Submarine by Scanners
There is no such thing as band obscurity these days, despite what their names might suggest. Take, for example, the London indie outfit, Scanners. So what?
But if I tell you that they are signed to Steve Aoki’s record label, have had their music featured in episodes of Entourage and One Tree Hill, have toured with [...]
Look—no, it’s not Face—book
Perez Hilton may be your go-to guru for all the current celebrity fashion trends (and faux-pas), but where can we find out the latest street styles from everyday fashion enthusiasts around the world? The fashion blog LOOKBOOK.nu specifically targets these international trendsetters, which include high school students, aspiring designers and amateur photographers. LOOKBOOK.nu allows them [...]
Beauty in the breakdown
The construction of art is a multi-layered process. An initial stroke of inspiration, some preliminary drawings, an assemblage of materials and a whole lotta coffee come together as the key ingredients of many artistic endeavours, including the Blackwood Gallerys latest exhibition,
Location! Location! Location!, which opened last Wednesday.
A project that required the construction of art, artists [...]
The Greek Connection
Take a French play that is set in Greece, translate it into English, et voila! Theatre Erindales production of Andromache is the resulting dramatic fusion, a 17th century tragedy of pride, passion and jealousy by the French playwright Jean Racine. Though an English rendition of the play is quite uncommon, Richard Wilburs translation is greatly [...]
Record in review
Upon listening to a few seconds of any Vampire Weekend song, it doesnt take long to realize that the bands name is clearly a misnomer. Any preconceived notions of emo dreariness are instead replaced with images of bright-coloured sombreros, long drives along the coast and hillside orchestral performances. Mellow, youthful and fun are just a [...]
High times at Hart House
Rob Gordons relationship is falling apart. He lives in a crummy apartment and his greatest achievement in life is the collection of 45s hes been amassing since the age of seven. Hes the owner of a record store with zero growth potential, but its still the last real record store on earth, and [...]
Winter chills, movie thrills
The winter of 2009 saw a number of blockbuster releases that both generated large revenues at the box office and left behind a trail of mystique in theatres. From the legacy of enigmatic personas to worlds of fantasy, Sherlock Holmes, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Avatar were able to capture the magic of the [...]
Love, sex, and magic
How do you spruce up one of Shakespeares most famous plays and manage to send the audience through tears of laughter in the process? Hart House Theatres production of A Midsummer Nights Dream makes that possible. Directed by Jeremy Hutton, whose past directions include Arcadia, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet, the classic tale of [...]
