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  • Ed Piskor’s Family Tree: Beat Street Movie Gets Greenlit. (Music History)

    Anyone that’s tried to fulfill a personal dream knows how difficult a journey it can be. There is no road map to lead your way to the buried treasure. There is no compass to point you in the right direction, and no barometer to guide you past stormy weather. All you have is the idea…

  • 10 of the Very Best Club Tracks from Toronto’s Twilight Zone. (Music History)

    The Twilight Zone first opened it’s doors in 1980 in the nearly empty, factory filled, garment district of Toronto’s downtown, which years later became zoned as the city’s Entertainment District. During it’s incredible nine year run, the Zone became a mecca for a dedicated, eclectic clientele that included a solid mix of straight and gay;…

  • The Startling Truth Behind Toronto’s Tunnel of Terror. (Essay, Culture)

    To him who is in fear everything rustles. – Sophocles The intersection of Jane and Finch is well known to most Torontonians. It’s not a place the majority of it’s citizens have actually lived in, visited, or in fact, even driven by. Most Torontonians know it from news reports. It’s the place that people get…

  • Van Orton Design: Old School Pop Culture Revisited. (Fashion)

    If there is a bitter truth to the old Klingon axiom that revenge is a dish better served cold, for a no less volatile species, though perhaps slightly more attractively packaged; mainstream pop culture, nostalgia is a dish best served old. And the older you get, the more delicious it tastes. A side dish like…