Works by Brian Donnelly at the Show & Tell Gallery. Photography by Danielle Roach
Gallery owners to curate art for the walls of your dream home.
1. Daniel Faria, co-owner of the Clark & Faria Gallery (55 Mill Street Building #2, 416-703-1700, monteclarkgallery.com) in the Distillery District. He’s loveable and approachable, with a keen eye for curating rock star contemporary art and photography exhibits. Read the rest of this entry »
The menu at School
Whether you like yours with an extra spicy rim on the glass or easy on the Tabasco, we’ve found the Toronto spots that make a Bloody Caesar worth getting out of bed for on Sunday.
1. School (70 Fraser Avenue, 416-588-0005, sbcto.com) This hopping joint always does the trick for a Saturday or Sunday brunch fest. We usually start with a healthy smoothie and then move into the Caesars. Very counter-intuitive but somehow makes us feel like we’re keeping our health in check. Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to heavyweight pop collaborations, there’s a lot to be fearful of: Stepping on toes, amounting to the sum of two parts, going through the motions. Broken Bells’ self-titled debut is nothing of the sort.
Broken Bells is James Mercer, principle songwriter for the Shins, and Brian Burton of Danger Mouse fame. Together, they’ve made an empyreal pop record. One that’s psychedelic, atmospheric and hypnotic. It’s being drawn up to a 21st Century Pet Sounds made with special tools. And it’s damn good. Read the rest of this entry »
The Besnard Lakes’ music is as vast and dramatic as the remote region of Northern Saskatchewan for which the band is named. Listen to the wall of sound captured on this Pitchfork-approved outfit’s third release, The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar Records), and you’ll understand why Jace Lasek and wife Olga Goreas were tapped to score actor Mark Ruffalo’s directorial film debut Sympathy for Delicious. We spoke with Goreas, the voice behind lead-off single “Albatross,” from her home in Montreal. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re headed on a break to escape the last dregs of winter, here are a few suggestions to keep you entertained on the flight:
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller ($17, HarperCollins) Rebecca Miller’s tale about a suburban trophy wife with a past came to the big screen last fall. The novel is a great quick read for a short haul trip. Read the rest of this entry »
Photography by Jeff Petry
Consider the mythical chimaera. It has the body of a lion, a serpent’s head for a tail, and a goat’s head jutting from its back. Weird, right? But considering its relevance to Brasstronaut’s debut full-length, Mt. Chimaera (Unfamiliar Records), it’s not all Classics Club geekdom. Grazing and gobbling up genres in its path with cunning sensibility, Brasstronaut manages to fuse pop, electronica, klezmer (yup, pokey clarinet) and jazz into one highbred take. Every moment of Mt. Chimaera is fresh—dashing your anticipations at each unexpected turn. Read the rest of this entry »
Restaurant La Salle à Manger
Montreal’s artsy Plateau district is never at a loss for things to do, see and eat. If you’re looking for a break from Fashion Week, there are two hot spots currently lighting up the nocturnal scene on the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare. Read the rest of this entry »
The bar at Market by Jean-Georges in Vancouver
Ashleigh Dempster and Amanda Blakley call themselves cultural curators. Their club, The Society (thesocietyglobal.com), hosts high- and low-arty happenings in Toronto, L.A. and New York (and on March 25, Miami!)—from literary salons to graffiti tours and the always hotly-anticipated S.M.U.T. Soiree—so we can think of no better pair to write our new feature, The Culture Club. Every Thursday, they’ll be bringing you a weekly list of six culture picks for Toronto (and beyond)—everything from the best airplane reads to late-night eats to the top gallerists.
First up (and early this week): The top 6 places to get a cold beer in Vancouver during the Olympics.
The Shore Club (688 Dunsmuir St., 604-899-4400). We love the dark woods, California blinds and subdued interior. It’s also a stone’s throw from Holt Renfrew. Sit at the bar and order a Rickard’s White– refreshing after shopping til you drop in the Pacific Centre. Read the rest of this entry »
With Robson Street completely pedestrianized between Bute and Beatty streets and Georgia Street now home to one of the city’s largest public squares, it’s inevitable that visitors will come across the Vancouver Art Gallery (vanartgallery.bc.ca). I love artist Michael Lin’s enormous mural of colourful Taiwanese fabric covering the entire Georgia Street façade, but with all the world’s attention on athletes and their bodies, two exhibitions inside are also worth a visit. Visceral Bodies is a collection of multi-media art inspired by advances in science and medicine, while Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man features 16th century drawings of the genius’ discoveries about the human body, hundreds of years before they were confirmed by, well, scientists. I took my two interns to their first press conference ever, where we got a preview and tour of the latter by its British curator, Martin Clayton of the Royal Collection. Our conclusion? If you’re in need of a mid-Olympics break (or perhaps just some well-deserved quiet time), we suggest checking out these exhibitions.
The Vancouver 2010 Olympics open officially tonight and we’ll be keeping you up to speed on the stylish side of the games–the celebs, parties, opening ceremonies outfits and more–at our Olympics hub on fashionmagazine.com/olympics. Bernadette Morra and Rebecca Tay will be filing regular reports, plus we’ve got to-the-minute updates from our favourite tweeters and where to eat and shop if you’re lucky enough to be in Vancouver and Whistler.
And we can’t forget that other Olympic event–New York Fashion Week. Sarah Casselman and Lesa Hannah are embedded at the tents and we’ll have show reports, backstage beauty, street style and video from the shows. Check back over the weekend!
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