Comedian showing signs of comeback
One of many capital city comics that have gone on to great acclaim
Category: Culture
Balancing act
During her first two years at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Zoë Belkin split her time between classes and being on set for the television series The Latest Buzz. In a delicate balancing act, she’d often be away from school for five weeks at a time but worked with a tutor between takes and sent her … Continued
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Barbra Streisand pleases, but doesn’t awe at the ACC
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Morning Throwback: before video games made attention spans nonexistent, beekeepers were enthralling
Before zom-bees, bees were just bees and they were still super cool.
Five of Toronto’s most wickedly haunted hotspots
We hate to break it to you, but your favourite Toronto haunts are probably haunted — that is, if you believe in ghosts and that type of fourth-dimension stuff. If you do, Halloween is the perfect time to embrace your inner Robert Stack (or Peter Venkman) and investigate spooky things. So here are our top five haunted places in Toronto. Grab your proton pack and trench coat and get going.
Morning Throwback: in the ’40s, cribbage was the most exciting thing ever
Obama may have evoked the board game Battleship to bash Romney, but there’s nothing like a good ol’ game of cribbage to really make ‘em sweat.
Diamond Rings’ new album is bedroom pop with ‘umph’
Diamond Rings wasn’t supposed to get this big, this quickly. John O’Regan was using his new, ultra-glam musical persona as a way to exercise his more theatrical side, while continuing to play in indie rock bands such as The D’Urbervilles. But a funny thing happened on the way to another rock show. Diamond Rings got hot in a hurry.
Meet a Comedian: Ben Beauchemin
Originally hailing from Winnipeg, comedian Ben Beauchemin is quickly making a name for himself in Toronto’s stand-up scene, appearing regularly onstage everywhere from Comedy Bar to Rivoli. Having been nominated for this year’s Tim Sims Encouragement Award, it’s hard to believe Beauchemin first took the stage less than two years ago. We chatted with the comic about his first time onstage, canoeing and Troll 2.
Morning Throwback: unfortunately for these kids, we now know that sugar is actually poison
We hate it to break it to these kids, but not only will eating a lot of sugar make you fat, it will make you stupid, too. Worst combo ever.
Morning Throwback: unfortunately, women don’t have an excuse to be mean anymore
If women don’t really get PMS, then how do you explain this woman? Pretty (F**king) Mean Syndrome, that’s how.