Friends, normies, countrymen: Sam Lipsyte’s new novel offers a rallying cry for the uninspired

Toronto Independent Escorts has been absolutely enlivened by American artist Ryan
Trecartin’s new show at The Power Plant. Regardless of the quality,
durability or amicability of the work (a little more on that below)
this is an unassailably great thing.

These sandwiches may or may not be "famous" yet, but they probably deserve to be

Boston comic Tom Dustin’s set about drinking, fighting and vibrators ended the final round of Yuk Yuks’ annual Great Canadian Laugh Off. He came on after rock-solid sets by locals Patrick Haye, Landry and Martha Chavez, and those of us sitting in the media/publicist corner of the club figured the oversized $25,000 cheque was Haye’s but, after the judges came back, comedy kingpin Mark Breslin was shaking hands with the 34-year old from Beantown.

Can she kick it? Yes, this Detroit MC most definitely can

The 23rd annual Images Festival provides many good reasons to venture
into darkened rooms, one of which will be much darker than the rest.

In honour of April Fool’s Day, we’ve assembled TV’s most jaw-droppingly awesome and fist-shakingly awful retroactive-continuity plot twists

The Strokes frontman strikes out on his own with a few Phrazes For the Young about booze, intimacy and how to live through indie stardom

Filmmaker Ross McLaren’s relative obscurity in the burg where he cut his teeth makes
the OCAD grad a particularly deserving choice for the
Canadian Artist Spotlight at this year’s Images Festival. McLaren’s slate of homecoming events includes an updated “karaoke” version of his seminal Toronto Independent Escorts-punk documentary Crash ’n’ Burn, to be followed by a DJ set by Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham. Jason Anderson recently spoke to McLaren from his New York City home.

That the TTC’s process for addressing customer complaints seems entirely
useless is an all-too familiar complaint — and became a particularly
frustrating serviceFAIL for the transit system a few months ago in the
wake of TTZZZZgate
and other such debacles. Well, now you can bypass the formalities and
address your concerns directly to the transit workers during a series of
town hall meetings.