by Heather Holditch
Standing in front of my bedroom mirror, I felt more naked than usual as I envisioned the bare areas of skin between freckles and moles that I might want to have inked (as the cool kids call it): the centre of my back, the top of my foot, a band around my...
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Arts
To Thine Own Self Be Tattooed
Kids Can Rock at Elite Music Academy
They may be kids, some as young as 10, but these kids are legit. One writer checks out the show they’ve rehearsed so hard for and the student-centric program supporting these future rock stars.
By David Cadiente
School of Rockin’
Vasilis Isaakidis is very proud of Elite Music Academy located at 822 Danforth Ave, at Pape and...
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A Fine Medium
Readings by Margaret Unfogs My Future
By Jessica Glover
I took the tingling in my left hand as a sign that I had reached the right card. I slowly withdrew the final tarot card for the psychic so that she could divine my future. I was afraid of what might be revealed about me, but curiosity...
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Evergreen Everlea
The East Toronto band grows up
By Jordan Whitehouse
I first heard Everlea through a ghetto blaster during a heat wave in my friend’s back yard. We had been listening to tunes all afternoon, trying to keep out of the summer’s blazing sun, when a song by the band came on and I instantly took notice....
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Danforth Music Hall is Detoxified
Why The Toxic Avenger Musical closed abruptly in 2010
By Scott Jeffries
Last fall Danforth residents watched their renovated Music Hall transform into “Tromaville” as Dancap productions prepared the venue for the opening day of The Toxic Avenger Musical. The idea comes from the 1984 cult classic The Toxic Avenger which spawned three sequels (with a...
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