Every week, we gather our favourite tweets from in and around Toronto’s fashion scene. This week we’ve got VIP party invites from The Bay, top picks from the Philip Sparks Trunk Show and reading suggestions from Canadian Living’s Karen Kwinter.
Toronto’s first CyborgCamp hits our city this Saturday promising a low-cost, day-long opportunity to klatch with folks who know about the simpler topics in life such as quantified self, robots, and what else? Cyborgs. Feeling a little too, um, intellectually intimidated to go? Here are some tips on how get your cyborg on at CyborgCamp, even if you never made it past high school science and math.
After a relatively late start in a gritty industry, Toronto-born Stephen Lobo has had a consistent role on screen for the past five years, including past roles in major Canadian and American TV shows like Godiva’s, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Smallville, Falcon Beach and Painkiller Jane. His latest starring role is in the Canadian film Afghan Luke, directed by Mike Clattenburg (Trailer Park Boys).
A blend of Sangiovese, Merlot, Syrah and Petit Verdot fermented in stainless steel. Expect a bouquet of cherries, black licorice and leather with a truffle note. Full on the palate and rather supple, drinking well already, very pleasant and really well priced. Lots of flavour here. Food match: tomato-based pastas, fresh Parmesan.
Secrets, secrets, secrets. The new Toronto Blue Jays logo — decidedly retro-looking — appears to have leaked online, but the organization hasn’t confirmed it yet.
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A hundred years after the birth of Marshall McLuhan, “prophet of the Information Age” and Canada’s most baffling icon, his legacy is being celebrated this year around the world with McLuhan 100, especially in Toronto, where he made his home and his mark on the world. In preparation for Monday’s event at the Toronto Reference Library, McLuhan 100: Toronto’s Future in McLuhan’s Global Village, here are six ways to get a better understanding of McLuhan.
Now that the TIFF madness is over, we’re left with mixed emotions. We feel happy when we think back to all the great movies we saw, all the celebrities we spotted and all the parties we attended. But we also feel sad when left so exhausted and jet-lagged that we’d prefer not to get out of bed for the next two weeks in order to recover.
With the new Total Recall set to be the most expensive movie in Toronto history, the city could break a record this year. In total, Toronto is close to seeing over a billion dollars in production value for 2011, the most ever.
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Load up on guns and bring your friends. On Oct. 1, as part of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, a rotating cast of local and national celebrities, including members of Fucked Up, Tokyo Police Club and The Flatliners, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nirvana‘s breakthrough album, Nevermind, by playing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” 144 consecutive times.
Lovers of quality theatre have been blessed once again, this time with John Mighton‘s The Little Years, playing at the usually Shakespeare-oriented, and more recently, musical-obsessed Stratford Festival. Anyone who saw the Dora-Award-winning, profoundly moving Half Life, about men and women sinking into Alzheimer’s, knows what a gifted, thoughtful artist Mighton is.
The music of The Shanks exists in a perpetual struggle with itself. It is at once unsettling and familiar, dark and soothing, heavy and pretty, while managing to remain cohesive. This Orangeville-area twosome take a White Stripes-minimalist approach, crafting tunes on just drums and bass, but managing to create enough dynamics and layers to keep the listener engaged — no easy feat, but made less painful by vocalist/bassist Ian Starkey’s haunting, at times operatic voice.
