Labour Day’s sudden chill had us piling on the layers and ruminating about the cold and bleak winter months to come. It feels like only yesterday we were rejoicing in the floral bloom of spring and the raging heat of summer. While those who love clothes can appreciate colder days for the fact that, well, we get to wear more clothes, how about a little something to remind us of summer fun (and sunshine) as the days get darker?
So the big T word is coming to town this week. You know, that event with all the big movies and big fancy celebrities. But for movie-goers who like to keep things a little more obscure, there’s another film fest opening this week: the fifth annual Toronto Urban Film Festival, a nine-day event of short silent films that promises, literally, to keep its films on the down low by screening on TTC platforms. Here’s how the two fests square up.
Jessica Biel is in town shooting Total Recall, and during her time here, she and former(?) flame Justin Timberlake have been given some admittedly good Toronto tips. They’ve dined at Swan, sampled the baked goods at Ella’s Uncle and they’ve even indulged in our favourite anti-Ford activity: city cycling. But aside from eating and, well, exercising locally, Biel has been sizing up some of our local designers — and, literally, trying on some of their homegrown creations for size.
The Stables are the type of band that thrive within their collective limitations. Sure, their bass is made out of a bucket and a hockey stick and they use a suitcase for a kick drum, but it’s not about what those items can’t do, it’s about what they can. The Stables circumnavigate whatever drawbacks might be contained within those instruments to find the powerful and unique tones they offer, using them to lay the foundation for their music.
Once upon a time, students wrote in cursive and marveled at the wonders of technology (like the light bulb). Nowadays, students write with technology and marvel at the simplicity of yesteryear. In celebrating the annual ritual of back-to-school, we present these pictures of school life in Toronto towards the beginning of last century.
Earlier this year, Eddie Vedder put out an album of ukulele songs, ingeniously titled Ukulele Songs, but if you’d prefer to hear the “golden baritone” atop, y’know, electric guitars and whatnot, then Pearl Jam (September 11 @ Air Canada Centre) is swinging by Toronto this week.
What do disenchanted youth, carnies in love, six queens, “The Little Rascals”, and Rob Ford have in common? Nothing, except that they’re currently trending in Toronto’s theatre scene this week, and with that mixed bag, you’re bound to catch a show you’ll surely enjoy.
After $48-million and 14 months, the Eaton Centre’s swanky new Urban Eatery is now open, welcoming finicky foodies and junk-food-aholics alike. Here, five reasons to take a break from retail therapy and grab a bite to eat.
Every week, we gather our favourite tweets from in and around Toronto’s fashion scene. This week features quips from Greta Constantine, Jeanne Beker, Sarah Nicole Prickett and more.
The life of a theatre critic can be awkward and embarrassing. Consider that I only recently saw Soulpepper’s latest stab at delivering to us one of the finest, most moving American plays of the 20th century: Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. It closes this coming Tuesday, Sept. 6, unless Soulpepper chooses to extend it. The superlative company now presents up to a half-dozen plays or more per month throughout the season, an admirable and wonderful thing.
François Lurton is a flying winemaker who makes wine in Argentina, Chile, Spain and France. He’s something of a Sauvignon specialist. This wine is very pale straw in colour with a herbaceous, green plum nose, soft mouth feel and a gooseberry flavour with tart acidity. Good value. Food match: grilled scallops, Caesar salad.
Soulpepper brings back the Theatre of the Absurd
