On the first Thursday of every month, the AGO hosts a bit of a party. After sundown, art keeners hit up the gallery, pairing their Shary Boyle ceramics with a cocktail or two. This month, it’s all about the photograph: Jeremy Laing and others will present the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize before chanteuse Zaki Ibrahim — a 2013 Polaris Music Prize nominee — will hit the stage and get the crowd moving.
To those who’ve been meditating in sensory deprivation chambers for the past six hours, it’s official: Our mayor did, indeed, smoke that crack. The now-infamous words have come from the man himself just hours ago as he confessed to doing the drug before an army of reporters at city hall. Naturally, Toronto has taken its opinions to the Twittersphere en masse, so we took the liberty of picking 10 of the funniest (and obviously most impassioned) of those tweets. Grab some popcorn and enjoy.
While recent years have done much to lower our expectations when it comes to the athletes who call the Air Canada Centre home, there is a group of people who happen to work in the same building who put in a remarkable effort every single Leafs and Raptors game (not to mention Toronto Rock games and all the concerts).
Jon Bon Jovi has spent the past 30 years honing and perfecting the ideal arena rock experience. He and his band play with energy, passion, audience engagement and stage spectacle, all the while delivering a fresh set list every night.
Opening this past summer on the Ossington strip, Pop Up 120 is “a rotating pop up shop concept that features a unique, dynamic brand, event or exhibition each season”. Conceived by the wholesale distribution company, AgencyOne, the pop up shop strives to act as a mouthpiece for emerging brands, promoting brand awareness to the Toronto community at large.
Chef Charlotte Langley, who runs the show at seafood resto Catch, has shared her recipe for bouillabaisse, a Provençal staple chock full of fresh fish.
It’s Friday and the weekend is fast approaching. Need things to see or do? We’ve got you covered. In this edition: TIFF’s first major original exhibition, a winter fair at Exhibition Place, a celebration of the Day of the Dead and more.
Polaris Prize-nominated band Rural Alberta Advantage (www.theraa.com) have announced that they will head into the studio to being work on a new album scheduled for release in 2014. With said announcement, the trio will also be playing a few select concerts in the United States and Canada.
CNN news legend scheduled to make a rare live stage appearance on Nov. 3
I’ve been trying to understand the challenges facing young men in Toronto, particularly young black men and others of colour being stopped by Toronto police in “carding” incidents or street checks. More than 350,000 of these incidents occur over a year, or almost 1,000 times a day.
The weather is finally starting to cooperate with the schedule of beers that I had planned to write about, because there would have been no way to handle a dark, rich and slightly sweet monster like the Grande Cuvée Doppelbock on one of those sunny and hot days we had earlier this autumn.
Looking back at his illustrious career, Kurt Browning is still amazed at the incredible opportunities that figure skating has afforded him over the years.
