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6 days ago |
torontolife.com | Courtney Shea
Even by “not on my 2025 bingo card” standards, Adam Vaughan’s rebirth as staunch defender (and paid employee) of Therme, the Austrian company behind the province’s megaspa plan, is a shock. Yes, that Adam Vaughn—the former City TV newsie turned city councillor turned Liberal Party of Canada politico who famously railed against Doug Ford’s plan to sell off Ontario Place.
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1 week ago |
torontolife.com | Courtney Shea
Last November, the owners of Squirly’s announced that they would be pulling their last pint, signalling the end of an era for the Queen West institution—or so it seemed. Enter Britt Kirby and her partner, Patrick Grant, both service-industry vets and now the proud owners of Squirly’s 2.0. “We want to preserve the history, and then we have some fresh ideas,” says Kirby. (Don’t worry, the name—and that bizarre diaper-wearing squirrel logo—aren’t going anywhere).
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2 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Courtney Shea
If you were a Torontonian with a TV in the 1980s, you knew J.D. Roberts, the heavy metal–loving, mullet-sporting, cool-guy music nerd who rose to local fame first as the co-host of The NewMusic with Jeanne Beker and then as a MuchMusic VJ. Before he hit 30, he’d swapped out interviews with debauched rockers for hard reporting, eventually relocating to the US to anchor the morning news on CBS.
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2 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Courtney Shea
You’re heralded as a pioneer of body horror. Do you consider your latest film, The Shrouds, a member of that genre? It seems more like a romance to me. “Body horror” is a term someone else invented to describe my work. I accept it, but genre isn’t something I think about. Some people have called The Shrouds science fiction, but all the tech we show, including the tech for the shrouds themselves, exists today. I think of the movie as something of a drama.
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3 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Courtney Shea
Growing up in a low-income neighbourhood in LA, Flores experienced institutional racism and systemic injustice first-hand.
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