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Dear Canadian Music Week, It’s Not Us, It’s You
Why is Canada's oldest multi-venue music festival seen as a weak, sloppy knock-off? We offer six reasons. If you were paying attention to the local Twittersphere over the course of the last week, you...
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The Toronto Urban Roots Fest Charmed Audiences, Despite Rain
The first Toronto Urban Roots Festival had some challenges to overcome—rain, camera-shy celebrities—but it soldiered on. The Toronto Urban Roots Festival—a multi-day, outdoor concert—climaxed on Sunday...
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Scene: India on the Toronto Islands
The 41st-Annual Festival of India took over Centre Island. WHERE: Centre Island WHEN: Saturday, July 13, and Sunday, July 14 WHAT: After a Saturday parade down Yonge Street, the Festival of India’s...
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Ontario Craft Beer Week and Beyond
Some of the best reasons to get out and get drinking this summer. Summer is around the corner, and with warm weather on its way, it will soon be all about the patios, patios, patios, folks! And while...
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How to Eat Cheap (But Well) at TIFF
The best places for frugal festival-goers to grab a quick bite between screenings. There’s a point at which the hardcore TIFF-goer’s regular diet of coffee and Clif bars just doesn’t cut it anymore....
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Four Fresh Toronto Faces at TIFF 2014
Toronto-based actors and filmmakers explain what TIFF means to them—and get out their pre-festival jitters. With all the hype and hysteria that accompanies the arrival of even the most marginal...
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Behind the Scenes: TIFF Programmers on Surviving the Festival
Two of the festival's unsung heroes talk glamour, caffeine intake, and (literally) hitting the wall. Omnipresent at screenings and events, TIFF’s cadre of programmers gets more time in front of...
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Festival Spotlights Home-Grown Horrors
Check out our country's best horror movies at the Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival. Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival Carlton Cinemas (20 Carlton Street) November 28–30 $11; Saturday...
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2014 Villain: Radius Clauses
Nominated for: pitting festivals against each other, with local bands caught in the middle. Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains—the people, places, things, and ideas that...
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An Inside Look at Summerlicious
Torontoist contributor and restauranteur Samira Mohyeddin gives an industry view on the mixed emotions that come with Summerlicious and Winterlicious. I have been participating in Summerlicious and...
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It’s November, Now What?
From Roncesvalles Avenue to Regent Park, cultural events warm up even as temperatures drop. Federal election stunts and the Blue Jays kept us entertained in October but, as the days get shorter,...
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Historicist: The Caravan is on its Way
Torontonians travel the world—without leaving the city borders. “Toronto was once a mausoleum where nothing moved on Sunday but clergymen’s lips,” wrote the Toronto Star‘s Trent Frayne in 1974....
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