The Euro 2012 soccer championship kicks off this afternoon. And, though the games are taking place several time zones away, they sure will be felt throughout multi-cultural Toronto over the next three weeks. Expect to see flag-adorned cars and bars packed at strange hours of the day (hosts Poland and Ukraine are six and seven hours ahead, respectively).
Sure, this photograph may have been taken in 1953, but it could easily be a familiar scene come January 2013 thanks to one of the biggest “Fordian slips” of all time. No word yet on whether bag boys will be making a comeback, but we kinda hope so, since they sure were cute.
Cai.ro met each other on Craigslist, and after a face-to-face Tim Hortons’ coffee and shaky basement jam session, they’ve been honing their sound ever since. The result? Rich, fuzzy, orchestral indie rock with massive sound. Backed by booming drums, honeyed vocals, warm strings and driving bass, Cai.ro have (shockingly) remained unsigned. But they’ve been gaining a cult following in Toronto.
When not inventing cubism or lurking in his blue period, Pablo Picasso was a clean freak who liked nothing better than to get out the Swiffer and Windex and have a real go at his apartment. That, at least, is according to the subversive imaginings of Toronto artist Eric Rosser.
The Clash may have whined, “I got my motorcycle jacket but I’m walking all the time,” but like these dudes from 1912 prove, there’s bikers out there without jackets, or even half-decent choppers, who are still riding to live and living to ride because that’s where they live. Literally.
Local comedy club fave Gord Paynter didn’t let his blindness slow him down
This has to be one of the best excuses ever to slack off from cleaning your car. Your windshield isn’t dirty, it’s just an artwork that hasn’t happened yet.
Recently, at a boutique investment firm, an analyst complained to co-workers that he was scared to go home because his wife was reading Fifty Shades of Grey, the best-selling erotic novel about the relationship between a college graduate and a young business magnate, notable for its sexy scenes. Though this investment analyst’s colleagues were envious … Continued
There’s aging gracefully, and then there’s aging kick-assedly, like this guy. He’s damn classy with that glass of milk, but what really does a body good is his cavalier ‘tude that says, “Yeah, I’m drinking a tall glass of straight-up vitamin D. What of it?” If we don’t get to be this guy for at least a couple hours before we die, we are going to wreck the shiznit out of heaven.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet gets the ballet treatment thanks to American-born choreographer Kevin O’Day and the National Ballet of Canada’s most splendid dancers. Of course, the question we’re all asking is: “To plié, or not to plié?”
Toronto hip-hop artist Drake announced yesterday has signed up R&B star The Weeknd and rappers A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz for his third OVO Fest at Molson Amphitheatre on August 5. It adds to an already packed summer of music in Toronto that features the likes of The Black Keys, Coldplay and The Beach Boys. Here are our picks for 20 concerts you can’t miss.
We like to imagine that these two women were involved in a Truth About Cats and Dogs situation where the “smart” one was telling the “beautiful” one what to say to the guy through some sort of way-ahead-of-its-time candlestick telephone earpiece. It’s going well until some nutso bee distracts the smart one and she’s all like, “Get out of here, stupid bee!” and then the beautiful one repeats it and the guy realizes what’s going on and dumps both of them, because who needs the drama, right?
