On Sunday afternoon, UTM and UTSC faced off for the Women’s Tri-Campus soccer playoff finals at the North Field. In frigid temperatures, UTSC maintained possession for most of the first half and came close to a goal early on when the ball bounced off the crossbar. A corner kick from UTSC’s #10 led to some [...]
A house divided cannot stand
Last week a friend and I decided to explore the new medical building. We went around 4:30 p.m. and it was completely deserted, so we figured we might as well take our time and look around.
Cinema stirs the senses
The Blackwood Gallery is always looking for new ways to transform the gallery space, and its latest exhibition, Lost Secrets of the Royal—curated by Ben Donoghue and Heather Keung—is no exception to this tradition.
Something wicked this way comes
In anticipation of Hart House Theatre’s latest production, Shakespeare’s haunting Macbeth, we sat down to chat with director Jeremy Hutton and lead actor William Foley, as technical preparations continued into the cold, dark night ahead…
Art exhibit takes over office space
To mark 100 years since the birth of Marshall McLuhan, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery’s fall 2011 exhibition series, How Near is Far, honours the achievements of the great Canadian media theorist by featuring a number of works that address the growing permeation of information technology in society.
Avant-garde opening at the AGO
The AGO has not only acquired the entire General Idea: Haute Couture exhibition that debuted at the French art space earlier this year, but most recently the AGO also became home to a collection of 118 works that make up the highly anticipated, limited-time exhibition Chagall and the Russian Avante-Garde.
Our picks at Tiff
Check out our preview of some of the festival’s most promising movies, and stay tuned for the verdict next week.
Drama students take a bow
As the school year comes to an end, so does another season of student theatre on campus. Theatre Erindale’s 2010/11 “Coming of Age” season wrapped up last weekend with a performance of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale under the experienced direction of Mimi Mekler. The plot focusses on Leontes, King of Sicilia (Paolo Santalucia), who becomes [...]
Rock the Runway 2011
U of T’s fourth annual Rock the Runway fashion show returned to its home at the Royal Ontario Museum on Saturday night for an evening of fashion, music, and philanthropy. Founded in 2007 by Juliana White, Fatima Yusuf, Heather McCann, and Randy Alexander, Rock the Runway has managed to raise over $20,000 for War Child [...]
The games women play
Cue the lights, strike a pose, and make your fabulous entry into New York high society of the 1930s, dahling. Theatre Erindale’s production of The Women, Claire Boothe Luce’s 1936 satire about Manhattan socialites as they “cope” with divorce, infidelity, and gossip, wastes no time in setting the posh mood and witty exchanges between its [...]
