May Review – BlogTO
Posted by Jesse Ship / DECEMBER 4, 2012 May could be the answer to the rampant gentrification that’s been hitting Toronto’s urban western corridor between Bathurst and Ossington. While revitalizing a former Vietnamese underworld karaoke bar (formerly Café May, now simply running as…
Super Furry Animals
Seth Falk is kind of an incredible dude. He’s under 30, has a zoo license (the only one in downtown toronto), and under his company, Hands On Exotics, he owns over 90 exotic animals. From desert lizards to 20 lb…
Innis & Gunn Bartender’s Choice Tasting
Despite the rugged sounding name, the Edinborough Innis & Gunn Brewery have only been around since 2003 and was founded, Dougal Gunn Sharp, who used his middle name and his brother’s, Neil Innis Sharp, to title it. A group of…
Five Things We Learned at Ray Kurzweil’s Immortality Lecture – Feat. in THE GRID
Smug, nerdy, and in full I-told-ya-so form, inventor Ray Kurzweil expounded to an audience of hipsters, futurists, and mad scientists at the Danforth Music Hall last Thursday night. Kurzweil talked about the future of artificial intelligence and a few topics…
Flying Lotus @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto, Oct 13
With the release of his new album, ‘Until The Quiet Comes’, Flying Lotus is reaching new highs in his spiritual vehicle, vimana, merkaba, or just plain old cosmic chahttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgt, I guess you could say. Inundating our eardrums with a mix…
Wisers That’s Spiced UP! Halloween launch event
Established in 1857, Wiser’s is one of Canada’s oldest whiskeys but the Spiced Up blend is one of the newest kids on the block. I attended a Halloween-themed launch event earlier this week where we got to try the…
Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012 and the Post-Modernist Revolution
Highlights of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche 2012 – Being featured in Vice’s scathing critique of post-modernist art and e-tard exploitation. – Douglas Coupland’s Museum for the End Of the World. Maybe I missed a few things but it would have been…
HARDFest Feat. Justice, Buraka Som Sistema, Austra, M83 and MORE!
I woke up Saturday noon to a simple one line email from my editor at Spinner, “Can you interview Justice at 330 pm?” Obviously, the answer was yes, I would say yes even if I was in a quadriplegic full…
PUMA® PRESENTS TORONTO’S MAD DECENT BLOCK PART – SET TIMES NOW POSTED
Waiting to speak to Simian Mobile Disco backstage at the Hoxton, I got to meet Chris, Diplo‘s tour manager who gave me this pithy hair advice. “Dude, it’s like a mushroom cloud on the sides but I wanna see it more nuclear on…
Flying Lotus @ Red Bull Music Academy – Lecture Series [2009]
[Apparently a lot of people have been asking for this one. The file links didn’t transfer properly when I changed the name of the site, but that’s now been fixed. Here we go again. Enjoy – Cap’n Ship] I was…