Since its debut at Cannes last year, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors has been dazzling audiences lucky enough to experience it. An immersive and surrealistic journey, Holy Motors marked Carax’s triumphant return to the big screen after a 13 year feature-film hiatus.
This month we pair Pan on the Danforth with Pantheon in anticipation of — what else? — the 20th annual Taste of the Danforth. Which legendary Hellenic joint is more heavenly? You choose.
One of the best-value red wines at Vintages. It’s a richly extracted full-bodied wine with a spicy, smoky nose of blackberries and black olives. It has a sweet and savoury taste backed by lively acidity.
August is a glorious month of warm weather, fresh air and, let’s not forget, greasily delicious CNE food. But you don’t have to wait until Aug. 16 to (over-) indulge. These Toronto restaurants are serving up fair-inspired food just because they can.
The city’s groundbreaking arts festival SummerWorks kicks off this month. Known for experimentation, SummerWorks features a large theatrical program as well as a music series with artists such as indie pop group Snowblink. Post City chatted with Daniela Gesundheit about her music, the festival and the future of artistic expression.
The standard boy band model is typically one that is risk-averse. Take a handful of handsome performers possessing marketable, crowd-pleasing talents, arm them with individual identities, coordinated dance moves and a couple of catchy tunes and cash in.
While the conglomerate-owned Beer Store continues to pull shenanigans like listing Keith’s as an IPA, the LCBO has transformed itself into the default retail source of good beer for most Ontarians. The government-owned monopoly deserves a (brief) round of applause for opening its shelves over the past year to envelope-pushing bottles like special-release double IPAs and the province’s first gose
Going back to high school is not something everyone wants to do. This may be especially true if you went to an all-girls school. And you can imagine the problems associated with finally being accepted into a desirable private school at 15 years old — only to take on the role of outsider among a sea of cliques.
El Catrin, the Distillery District’s jazzy new joint for tacos, is a visual feast. A loud mural dancing with colour is splayed across one accent wall; neon skulls glow from a back room; and eye-catching dioramas of rural scenes from the homeland are dotted throughout the space. Liquor also plays a role in the decor scheme, with bottles of tequila and mescal surveying the scene from mammoth shelves behind the bar.
Good luck topping that, OVO Fest. A capacity crowd of nearly 17,000 was on hand at the Molson Amphitheatre last night for Drake’s annual music festival, which turned out to be heaven on Earth for local hip hop fans.
July was not a good month for me, coffee-wise. You see, I work near York Mills and Don Mills, which is a terrible area if you are hungry, thirsty or tired. There is little in the way of good food, and even less in the way of good coffee.
Cats production stage manager, Darragh Parsons, and associate conductor, Steve Hunter, met 28 years ago on the Toronto set of Cats at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre. It didn’t take long for sparks to fly after their first meeting, and now, after more than a quarter of a century, Steve and Darragh are still going strong. Here, the couple takes us behind the scenes (so to speak) and tells us how they met.
