Aspiring manic pixie dream girls, your wardrobe wishes have been answered. Free People, the popular Urban Outfitters offshoot, is set to open its first ever Canadian retail store in Toronto. The company has posted ads for Toronto store managers and staff on its website and a representative told us it is planning to open a location on Yorkville Avenue in early August.
Whoopi Goldberg will be on stage at Roy Thomson Hall tomorrow evening (June 1, 7:30 p.m.) as part of a lecture series for women called Unique Lives & Experiences. She’ll be talking about everything from feminism to politics to menopause. And since she is one of only a handful of entertainers who can rock EGOT bling, we expect to learn a lot from this talented lady.
One good thing about globalization is that the sake available in Toronto these days is no longer solely limited to the poorest examples of Japan’s national liquor. If the only sake you’ve ever tried has been the “house sake” at the nearest all-you-can-eat sushi joint, then you haven’t had sake. In honour of Kampai Toronto’s Festival of Sake, this evening at The Distillery District, we offer you seven reasons to make sake your drink of choice.
Former MuchMusic executive strikes a chord in support of at-risk youth
They say that accessories make the outfit, but what if the accessory is the outfit? Then there would be no to worry about whether cocktail rings and statement necklaces complemented a look or went with your shoes.
If you’re looking to tap into your inner dark side, these Vancouver rock gods are the the droids your looking for. Japandroids may only be made up of axe man Brian King and drummer David Prowse, but their sound is massive. Their dense and heavy punk-garage-vibe is like Fugazi had a love child with MC5 that was raised by Against Me!
No one drinks rosé between October and April, but wine is otherwise less weather-dependent than beer. Already, two of my five First Draught posts have profiled seasonals — beers that breweries only make and sell at a certain time of year.
Every grown man should be able to change a tire, drive stick, do CPR, gut a fish, throw a punch, shoot a gun, build a fire, cook a steak, recite three lines from Fight Club, run a marathon and, like in they did in the ’50s, eat as many figs as they damn well want.
We can’t find any scientific proof for this, but we’re guessing there’s some kind of link between caffeine and impulse buying. How else to account for the growing trend of retail stores in Toronto that seem to take coffee as seriously as the goods they’re selling?
The monolithic Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking — a 50-pound, six-volume encyclopedia featuring 2,400 pages of elaborate cooking lore — will soon be adding another robust recipe-repository to its high-end cookbook family. Capitalizing on the surprising commercial success of its big brother, the upcoming Modernist Cuisine At Home moves away from the restaurant industry and towards the home kitchen, designed to “set a new standard for home cookbooks.”
On June 4 several organizations will shut down their websites as part of an ongoing campaign for free speech
Just in time for Toronto’s end-of-May heat wave, Vancouver-based brand Lifetime Collective asked me to take part in a style-off with other fashion bloggers to show how to wear three of its key SS12 items – the Paige dress, the Stevie Tank, and the Beaches shirt — in looks for both night and day. I say “just in time” because when dealing with such sudden mega heat, everyone’s all like, “What the heck do I wear?”
