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How To Dress Well played an intimate performance for a rather crowd at Wrongbar on Wednesday night. Half were there for the ethereally voiced Tom Krell while the obvious throngs of teeny tiny pop tarts showed up to pay homage to their latest buzzy idol, Read more
If Andy Stott is the future, then the future is dark. Very dark. The celebrated producer of 2012’s sleeper hit album, Luxury Problems played at Mansion’s Foundry series in the Blk Box Theatre, beneath the Great Hall on Saturday night. His set was a technical exploration of negative space in sounds Read more
Jimmy’s Coffee has emerged from the spent ashes of the Hot Box Café at 191 Baldwin St. in Kensington Market, joining the original and very popular location on Portland. Walking in, you’re greeted with a portico type space with outside benches that will either be used by Read more
I attended my first ACTRA Awards last night as an official guest, (I didn’t even have to sneak in like this guy!). Opening with a lavish assortment of food stations (mini burgers & fries, pastas, mac n cheese, sushi & soba noodles) and a drink Read more
I just caught UK’s The Macabees for their very first Toronto gig. The band’s got three albums under their belt already but what’s got the world’s attention right now was there 2012 Mercury Award nomination. Sadly, they lost out to Alt-J (or ∆)’s spectral folky Read more
Hormones ran high Thursday night as hundreds of Toronto partiers flocked to Uniun Nightclub in hopes to get an earful of Diplo (Mad Decent label founder, DJ and rising super-producer) and quaff some sudsy Buds, Bud Light Platinum that is. A group of a few hundred media, Read more
by Jesse Ship / JANUARY 11, 2013 Pharmacy is a cozy little bar at the southwestern edge of Parkdale. Once a methadone clinic and pharmacy, it’s now a quirky and eclectic bar stocked with buffalo heads, found furniture, vintage knick knacks pillaged from Value Village Read more
Posted by Jesse Ship / JANUARY 8, 2013 The Aria Entertainment Complex had been spamming me to death with Facebook ads for their new club, and having viewed their over-the-top promotional video which resembles a high-end diamond or perfume ad (or more appropriately The Simpson’s Barney Gumble’s epic shortPukahontas), Read more
Imagine Hip Hop never grew old and we were stuck in a world of motherships, cowboys, aliens, and the Dr. Funkensteins that Afrika Bambaata emerged from. Would there still be the gun play, anger, bitches, and hos? It’s hard to say… The December 2012 issue Read more
by Jesse Ship / DECEMBER 18, 2012 Moskito is the buzzing new home to Toronto’s sticky nightlife family, although the building that houses it has seen a fair bit of history since the summer. Just a few months after Plaza Flamingo shut down, the building has already Read more