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Grrrl Power!
Kate Nash Brings Her New Sound to Toronto By Natasha Tsakiris She’s sugar and spice, and not playing nice anymore! No longer a hot and bothered redheaded mess, Kate Nash is electric fire, coming back full-throttle with her third album Girl Talk. The young British singer-songwriter played to a full house Friday night at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern, where she revealed a new look and a new sound. Showing a darker version of her usual bubbly, 50s pinup-girl demeanor, Nash has dropped the piano and picked up the guitar along with a tough-girl attitude, releasing her inner punk-rock chick in the vein of Courtney Love. On Girl Talk, Nash is…
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March Madness
Staycation Spring Break By Natasha Tsakiris Spring break is nearly here! No school and no work—for those lucky enough to get time off. It’s time for some fun and a little, very much deserved R and R time. While many Canadians will be facing extremely long lines at airports for a chance of sun, surf, and sand, the rest of us will be looking for fun activities to do on a staycation. “A vacation that is spent at one’s home enjoying all that home and one’s home environs have to offer”, as the Urban Dictionary describes it, a “staycation” is a great way to be a tourist in one’s city…
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A Year of Firsts
Rediscover Your City Today By Natasha Tsakiris Do you remember the first time you learned to ride a bike? What about driving a car? The first time you learned to read or tie your shoes? Do you remember the excitement and pride that you felt as a child when you discovered you could accomplish something new? When was the last time you did something spontaneous? In the spirit of the New Year, I made some resolutions and goals: exercise more, write more, and many others. The most important goal I made though is to be an adventurer of sorts, using each and every day as a chance to learn and…
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And the nominees are….
The 85th Academy Awards By Natasha Tsakiris It’s Hollywood’s biggest night in cinema, a night where a little gold statue named Oscar is all it takes to catapult your career in film forever: the Academy Awards. It is the Mecca for all film connoisseurs and lovers and the showdown for which actors and films were truly the best of the year. The 85th Academy Awards may still be less than two months away but funny man and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, who will be hosting this year, announced the list of nominees alongside Gangster Squad’s Emma Stone. With less than two months away until the big day, we present to…
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Love, Unibrows, and Communism
Frida & Diego at the AGO By Natasha Tsakiris Even if you have never heard of Frida Kahlo, you’d probably recognize her by her distinctive eyebrows prominent in many of her self-portraits. But before Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón became Frida Kahlo, Mexico had another renowned artist. Diego Rivera, Kahlo’s husband, was considered the “people’s artist.” His paintings expressed his passions and beliefs about politics and his homeland. Together they became two of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century and of modern art. He painted for the people, while she painted to survive. Therefore, it is only fitting the two share an exhibit at the Art Gallery of…
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The Literary Scene
Your Favourite Novels, Now in Theatres By Natasha Tsakiris This winter season, many literary classics will be released as film adaptations. While some of these novels have been deemed “unfilmable,” directors have taken these well-known stories and transformed them into onscreen gems. This award season, it’s a battle of the books on screen. They may all be big players in the literary world, but will these adapted versions become box-office gold? Read the books before you see the movie and see if they live up to the expectations! Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi We begin with the science fiction puzzle Cloud Atlas, based on a novel by David Mitchell, and directed by Lana…
