Month: May 2013

OH NOES! Toxic Belly Bugs!! – From the Spambox

OH NOES! Toxic Belly Bugs!! – From the Spambox

      If you get this email in your spam/inbox, you would be most wise to NOT click on it, but luckily for weirdos like me who live for the bizarre underbellies of the internet, the contents of the mail were a harmless .jpg. Read more

Bloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix – BlogTO

Bloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix – BlogTO

If you were looking for vitamin rich vegetables at the Phoenix when the Bloody Beet Roots rolled through town, then you had come to the wrong place. If you had a hankering for big, bloody, over the top beats, however, then this was indeed the Read more

Natasha Kudashkina “DOTS” show @ Cabal

Natasha Kudashkina “DOTS” show @ Cabal

  Natasha Kudashkina is an award winning visonary artist/body painter/tattoo artist and doer of many things! Check out some shots from last Friday night’s art show. In 2011 she placed second at the North American Body Painting Awards in Dallas, Texas (yes this exists!) In Read more

Max’s Restaurant aka Max’s of Manilla – Canadian Philippine Fashion Week

Max’s Restaurant aka Max’s of Manilla – Canadian Philippine Fashion Week

I went to a press announcement last week for the first ever Canadian Philippine Fashion Week (June 10-15), hosted by the extravagant and eccentric former MTV Philippine’s host and media personality, Jeff Rustia and went home with a lunch box from Max’s Restaurant aka Max’s Read more

Pedestrian Sundays return to Kensington for 10th year – BlogTO

Pedestrian Sundays return to Kensington for 10th year – BlogTO

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years that Kensington Market has been closing off its major arteries on the last Sunday of the summer months from May to September, allowing music-food-and-fun-loving pedestrians to roam wild and free. As a resident of the Read more

Canada Philippine Fashion Week

Canada Philippine Fashion Week

    I’ll be at the media announcement for Canada Philippine Fashion week in an hour!   Kol Hope Foundation for Children will serve as the beneficiary of the inaugural launch of Canada Philippine Fashion Week, to be held from Monday, June 10th to Saturday, June Read more

Hourglass Sea – Richard III

Hourglass Sea – Richard III

Everyone once in a while, a new song or artist renews my faith in music blogging.   Take for example, Richard III by Hourglass Sea, who uses tags for this tune like popstep (twice even lol) maximalism, and RAW! It sounds like a big old Read more

Electric Island turns on for Victoria Day techno party – BlogTO

Electric Island turns on for Victoria Day techno party – BlogTO

The Toronto Island has had a long history of music festivals, from Toronto’s first Love Ins with the Mariposa folk Festival in the late 60s to most recently Virgin Music Fest in 2009, but the island’s been relatively quiet since. By some strokes of luck Read more

Cove Thirtyone – BlogTO

Cove Thirtyone – BlogTO

  Cove Thirtyone gets me thinking of The Little Mermaid – or at least a song that you’re bound to get stuck in your head. “Under the sea, darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from meee” … and take it from Tommy King, a Read more

In search of perfection at the Toronto Wing Festival – BlogTO

In search of perfection at the Toronto Wing Festival – BlogTO

One celebrity host, four media-industry judges, 10 restaurants, 600 tickets, three winners and 20,000 wings served. Such was the outcome of the Toronto Wing Festival held at 99 Sudbury. Our host for the evening, celebrity TV chef, Bob Blumer of the Surreal Gourmet, Glutton For Read more