If you want to get on the bill for the third anniversary edition of Everyone’s a DJ, which we’re hosting this Saturday night at Disgraceland, then now’s the time. Since my last post about the party, five more DJs have joined the bill, and at the time of this writing the schedule is nearly full. […]

I don’t want to tell a bunch of mayoral campaign staffers how to do their jobs, but in this day and age, the importance of owning your online identity can’t be understated. I guess that’s why it seems especially odd to me that the Ford campaign, with all their bogus radio callers and fake accounts […]

There isn’t an awful lot that I can say about the passing of Mark Dailey that hasn’t already been said by people all over Toronto since the news broke yesterday afternoon. The man was an institution in and of himself, and certainly a caring and beloved local figure. And although I wasn’t lucky enough to […]

Hey, remember yesterday’s post about Golden Words and the potential insensitivity of its annual Montreal Massacre spread? Well, my friend and fellow former editor Peter Lynn, who was the first of many former staffers to show up in the comments following the post, expanded on his response in a post on his own blog. Why […]

Back in university, I used to write for a campus paper called Golden Words. During my third year, in fact, I was one of its co-editors. It was Canada’s only weekly campus humour paper – and “Canada’s other national newspaper,” if our billing in those pre-National Post days could be believed. But it was also […]

This Saturday night at Disgraceland, we’ll be celebrating the third anniversary of Everyone’s a DJ. As always, we’ll be hosting sixteen DJs, veterans and rookies alike, spinning all different kinds of great music. There are still a few open spots on the schedule at the time of this writing, so if you’d like one, do […]

That got your attention, didn’t it? The place in question is called Ohhh Canada, and the launch party is here in town at 7:00 PM tonight. Oh, and for every purchase, the store will donate fifty cents to ovarian and prostate cancer charities. My friend Ana put me in touch with the owner, Katrina McKay, […]

Jocelyn Geddie, a very funny woman that my brother can proudly call his girlfriend, set a fun mock-debate in motion on Facebook this afternoon after I pointed out that a lot of elected officials “wait until at least their second day in office to violate their own campaign promises.” Granted, this was a matter of […]

Jason Hall, a notable playwright and a true classic of a friend, is also one of those guys who’s frustratingly intelligent. You know those people who can look at a seemingly trivial event, unravel the latent but nagging contradictions, and unearth an undeniably compelling point that you wish you’d been clever enough to spot on […]

The cover of today’s Toronto edition of 24 Hours is a great illustration of its role as one of the subtler papers under the Sun Media umbrella. Especially when you spot it right next to a copy of today’s edition of the Toronto Sun. The front page of 24 Hours, for example, says “Now We […]