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Gleeks are Gleeking Out for Glee
The wait is over! The highly anticipated show, Glee, is coming back this week. And when I say highly anticipated, I mean it. Fans of the show, known as Gleeks,...
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Movie Review: Date Night
Oh, the lunacy! Shawn Levy, the director of the Night at the Museum franchise, teams up with two of the comedy world's biggest talents, Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Office)...
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See The April Blue Jays
There’s something about Toronto baseball in April that’s majestic. It might be because it’s usually the first time we’ve seen the sun in six months, or because our sports teams make us so sad that having...
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Have a Hotz Night In
When it comes to stand-up comedy, I find that the lesser-known comedians in Canada bring the best laughs. No offence to Russell Peters, of course, but it’s not like he should care as...
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Molson Amphitheatre: Concert Dates to Remember
The Molson Amphitheatre is one of my favourite concert venues in Toronto. The acoustics are excellent, and when it’s a beautiful summer’s night, the outdoor atmosphere can make a good concert that much more magical. ...
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Make it a Classic
It’s a Friday afternoon and I’m browsing through lists of movies currently out in theatres, as well as recently released DVD thrillers with graphics that’ll really give my Blu-ray player the opportunity to stretch its legs....
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Burton’s Alice in Wonderland promises to be a “mad” success
It took me two days to be able to sit down and enjoy Tim Burton’s latest foray into the world of weird: Alice in Wonderland
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The Best Practical Facebook Apps
We’ve done the best Facebook games, but how about applications that bring some practicality to life’s needs? Not all of us have time for tomfoolery! (But clearly I do because I write words like tomfoolery.)...
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Dancing Into History
Dances like “the hustle,” “the mashed potato” and “the macarena” have all become a part of popular culture over the years. For the most part, we can all say that we’ve grooved with these dance moves in at least one of our office parties (let’s not kid ourselves...
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Avatar: More Than Just Science Fiction
Cinema is changing, and its new face may just be blue.
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Rock ‘n’ Rhetoric
Syd Barret once said, “I think...
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Sacrificial Art
Last week artist Heather Goodchild hosted a reception for her new exhibit at Toronto’s Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects. The exhibit, The Fire and the Knife, draws from Biblical stories and fairy tales to...
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Art Star
October 7th marked the first showing of this year’s regional and national winners of the BMO 1ST Art! Invitational Student Art Competition. Each year, undergraduate-level students...
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Madama *sniff, *choke, *sob Butterfly
On Wednesday, September 30, fellow Lifestyle writer, Diana Cina and I had the great fortune to attend a production of the Canadian Opera Company’s
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You’re So Vain
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is hosting a photography exhibit that will feed everyone’s secret or not-so-secret voyeuristic tendencies and love of celebrity. The exhibit displays portraits from Vanity Fair’s various incarnations, including the earliest photo of George Bernard Shaw taken by Malcolm Arbuthnot in 1920. The exhibit also features...
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Polaris Prize Winner is F—ked Up. Literally.
In a win that was almost as shocking as the band itself, pop-hardcore band F—ked Up won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize. Although there was no clear favourite leading...
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My White Night
Amid an audience decked out in enough red, white and black retro chic to make Rita Hayworth jealous, I prepared once again to indulge in a musical love affair that rivals the David Cassidy crushes of the...
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Seen and Heard
Lifestyle was on the star-studded red carpet of the Canada’s Walk of Fame gala on Saturday, September 12, talking to current cover girl Kim Cattrall...
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Coco & Igor
Family Feud
When going to see a Werner Herzog-directed, David Lynch-produced, Michael Shannon-starring cop drama, you can predict an intelligent, oddball experience. The Herzog and Lynch partnership marks a strange marriage...
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