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Danforth Avenue is a long road. But when someone says The Danforth, they mean that amble from Broadview to Pape where restaurants with ample patio space proliferate and stylish young women promenade for diners’ enjoyment. Wear your contacts. Many refer to the area as Greektown and most of the restaurants … Read More
With the Toronto International Film Festival eclipsing the World Film Festival over the past 20 years or so, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when the Montreal fest was arguably the biggest in Canada. So what happened? It’s easiest – and probably accurate – to blame the … Read More
Ever since Woodstock, North Americans have been trying to recapture that perfect confluence of music, love, drugs and general good times. Though Woodstock II was a miserable failure (riots, Fred Durst, etc.), a handful of upstarts, like Tennessee’s Bonnaroo festival, are making a go at re-establishing the music festival in … Read More
For a dozen years, Montreal’s Fantasia Festival has been home to the gross, the groovy and the downright weird in genre cinema from across the globe. Here’s a tour of the world, Fantasia-style. Japan: Accuracy of Death Death is the subject here – and the main character. Following a not-so-grim … Read More
Since 1908 or so, depending on who you ask, Saint-Jean-Baptiste (that’s John the Baptist to you) has been the patron saint of French Canada, but his holiday – June 24 – has taken on increasingly nationalistic overtones since the 1970s. To wit: It’s otherwise known as the Fête Nationale. In … Read More
