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The Search for The Next Dundas Square Star

During the summer, the stage on Dundas Square offers concerts, free movie nights, and other various sources of entertainment to keep the masses happy in the hot days and nights. On one hand, this is a nice source of light fun but from time to time, the locals of Toronto step up to attempt to [...]

It may not do so well…but thanks Mike!

So then, early reviews for Mike Myers’ new flick The Love Guru have come out and it’s not doing so well. There’s even talk that it may be up for a Razzie Award for Worst Film of the Year. Now, I’m not overly excited for the film. It doesn’t look that great and the [...]

Fringe Fest Preview

The Toronto Fringe Festival is less than a month away. If this intense heat lingers between July 2-13, then I highly suggest you all head out and catch some new theatre. Every year, the festival offers something for everybody, it’s mixed bag of the good and the bad, the happy and the sad, and all [...]

Self-Reflexive City Gazing

So here’s something that I’ve had written but never actually got around to getting it posted/published anywhere. Now that I’m contributing here, I feel like this is a good outlet for it.
Sometimes life inevitably gets you thinking. And as television and films have taught us, when a protagonist gets introspective, it’s time to cue the [...]

I hear it was big in the 70’s

When Robert Opel streaked across the stage during the telecast of the 46th Annual Academy Awards, he made his mark and arguably became the most famous streaker ever. As far as streaking goes, he did good.
Now then, here’s where I make my plea.
As I sat in my last sociology class at U of T, I [...]