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Cartoonist Jason Loo from Marvel and Star Wars to Toronto Comicon

By lindsaylow

Toronto-based artist Jason Loo’s life is not unlike that of Lucas Barrett’s, the protagonist from his highly successful comic book series The Pitiful Human-Lizard. Barrett is a thirty-something Toronto office clerk by day and a crime-fighting superhero (albeit a struggling one) by night. Loo’s 9-to-5 gig is as a library children’s programmer, and he spends … Continued

The new Ace Hotel’s restaurant taps Alo’s Chef Patrick Kriss

By Erica Commisso

With Toronto’s own Ace Hotel opening this spring, the worldwide hotel group tapped one of the city’s most iconic chefs to handle the culinary experience. The hotel restaurant, which will be called Alder, will be helmed by Patrick Kriss, the Michelin-pedigreed chef behind the prestigious modern French restaurant Alo, one of the country’s–and the world’s–best … Continued

This new Toronto clubhouse celebrates women who love beer

By Erica Commisso

Erica Campbell felt a bit isolated back in 2013, while working her first full-time job in the beer industry. “I was working with all men, which isn’t uncommon in the brewing industry,” she says. So, she approached four beer-loving women she knew in Jaime Dobbs, Renee Navarro, Jen Reinhardt, and Magenta Suzanne and pitched them … Continued

How They Met: Oscar-nominated filmmaker’s Toronto romance

By Julia Mastroianni

Award-winning Toronto filmmaker Nathalie Bibeau’s first documentary feature, The Walrus and the Whistleblower — which follows the life of a Marineland worker who blows the whistle on animal abuse — garnered her three Canadian Screen Award nominations, the top Audience Award at the Hot Docs International Film Festival and earned her an Oscar nomination for … Continued