Guidance from your elders is invaluable. Today we’re offering some old school lessons to the new school, so listen up, we might just save you a ton of humiliation, money or physical pain.
Continue reading Lessons from the dance floor at Electric Island Civic DayCategory Archives: Wonderland
Alice was here.
Explore the Roots of Bestival from Sunday Best to Common People
According to the music festival’s director and partner Ben Turner, Bestival got its start as a series of parties created by BBC Radio DJ Rob Da Bank called Sunday Best, which took place at a tea shop in London, UK. Da Bank would invite “legends of our nightlife world and DJs to play for nothing” and the audience would pay a mere 99p (.99 cents) per person to get in, says Turner.

Continue reading Explore the Roots of Bestival from Sunday Best to Common People
Museum Takes Us on the Flight Path of Birds Through Bloor-Yorkville Culture Corridor
The flight path of an urban city centre is a deadly obstacle course for migratory birds.
Migratory Bird Layout at the Royal Ontario Museum is an Art Piece Made From Dead Birds
The Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada’s ‘Annual Migratory Bird Layout‘ at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is an art piece made out of dead birds.
The Centre of Time Runs Through Greenwich Park in London
The first of London’s Royal Parks to be fully enclosed, in 1433, Greenwich Park is now part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site, and includes the famous Royal Observatory on its hill – from where this shot was taken.
Continue reading The Centre of Time Runs Through Greenwich Park in London
Monster Mash at the Liberty Grand
The biggest dance party for the third Halloween in Toronto, for all those who like controlled mayhem or just to party in style. Monster Mash features Metro Boomin’, Thugli, Tommy Trash, Chris Lake and about 16 other artists at the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex on Friday, Oct 28. Let loose to trap, hip-hop, EDM and Electro in one-hundred thousand sq. feet of upscale ballroom space. If you’re trying to get away, you can hide in the crowd in one of the three rooms, each with its own unique vibe.
Smoking Guy
To my own surprise I’ve settled into high-rise living. It’s been more than six years and I find it fascinating to live so peacefully in close proximity with so many people.
Continue reading Smoking GuyMontreal Professor Jailed in Iran for ‘Dabbling in Feminism’, Free
After 112 days detained in Evin prison in Iran for ‘dabbling in feminism’, retired Montreal professor Homa Hoodfar is now free.
Continue reading Montreal Professor Jailed in Iran for ‘Dabbling in Feminism’, Free
Death of Michael Moore in Mobile Lost Under Piles of Mass Shootings
A young man, 19 years old, by the name of Michael Moore was shot by police during a traffic stop in Mobile, Alabama around dinner time on Monday, June 13 leaving him clinging to life in a driveway on Wagner Street in Toulminville. The incident did not receive much attention because it happened around the same time as the Pulse nightclub tragic mass shooting in Orlando.
The incident was filmed on a cellphone.
Continue reading Death of Michael Moore in Mobile Lost Under Piles of Mass Shootings
Bestival Toronto Lighting Rivals European Mega Festivals [Videos, Photos]
The night was electric. LED strobes lit up the sky. Warm kaleidoscopic colours washed over festivalgoers. Laser beams of light illuminated the air and haze enveloped The Cult on the main stage.

Continue reading Bestival Toronto Lighting Rivals European Mega Festivals [Videos, Photos]
