Mary D

If you’re into smart, eclectic fashion design, then WORN Fashion Journal should be sitting on your nightstand. This independent fashion “journal”, named exactly so because it sounded better than “magazine”, shuns high-paying advertisers and bourgeois fashion ideals. WORN is exactly what we’ve come to expect from local thrift shops, record stores and coffee houses...
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With additional reporting by Iris Leung Shary Boyle, who currently graces the cover of Now Magazine, is a Toronto artist worth watching. Everything Under The Moon, (opening the World Stage season at Harbourfront) is a fantastical, re-vamped old-style shadow play that’s powered by a hybrid of hand-animated projections (essentially transparencies on an overhead projector)...
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The 6th annual Erotic Arts & Crafts Fair (EACF) hosted at the Gladstone Hotel this Saturday February 11th is not an event to bring your grandmother to. Presented byToronto’s Queen West sex shop, Come As You Are, dozens of vendors are putting their goodies up for sale. Sexy crafts include crocheted pasties, handmade lingerie...
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Red, White and Pink Day as I like to call it, draws near. The expired Halloween candy is devoured, the credit cards are maxed out on Christmas gifts and the pounding headaches of New Year’s Day are alleviated. Valentine’s Day has struck and it’s not even February. Blame it on seductive marketing all you...
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“Painting does what we cannot do – it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.” – Chuck Jones. We had already sipped on espresso at El Macambo, wandered in vain searching for a bank and chowed down on savoury pulled pork poutine at Poutini’s. All this in the drizzling rain, before arriving at...
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Aroma is the hot new coffee joint in town. The café offering a diverse range of coffee-based beverages, freshly baked pastries, salads, soups and sandwiches has opened three new locations in the GTA just this past summer, rounding off a total of eight openings in three years. The first Aroma Espresso Bar location to have...
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If you’re in the artistic or entrepreneurial industry, you know that hard-copy portfolios are declining as steadily as paperback novels. Digital, digital, digital. If you want to get your name out there and break into your field, chances are you better get your ass online. Personal branding, professional websites, twitter, all of that digital...
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If you haven’t been to Roncesvalles yet, shame on you. The construction finally came to an end earlier this summer, so there are no excuses. Time to plan a day trip to this brimming neighbourhood before the hipsters stake the territory as their own. They always get to the good spots first. It’s those...
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Like most people in the city of Toronto, chances are when you hear the word “pride” you think of the annual gay parade and week-long celebrations that sweep the city every June. What you probably don’t know is that disabled folks have their moment in the spotlight too. For the past eight years, Simply...
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As I stroll through Kensington Market, I have no need of a marker or a sign to guide me to the Poetry Jazz Café. The music streaming down the sidewalk and past the outdoor patios finds me first. Unassuming and neatly affixed into the wall of 224 Augusta Avenue, Poetry is the type of...
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