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DOXA is Vancouver’s documentary film fest. This year marks the seventh year the DOXA organizers have scoured the planet (and our own backyard) to bring you the best in non-fiction film making. Here are five picks you shouldn’t miss. Emoticons Director: Heddy Honigmann; The Netherlands, 2007, 53 minutes. Emoticons is … Read More
It’s hard not to root for Blue Metropolis, the annual literary festival that gets underway today. Though the public has never flocked to it like, say, the Jazz Festival, Blue Metropolis has established itself firmly in the city. This year, it celebrates its 10th anniversary. Organizers have always shown serious … Read More
All year round, not just during the upcoming Taste of the Danforth Festival, many of Toronto’s finest women dress up and flock to the Danforth to promenade between Broadview and Donlands. They display a European flair and pride in femininity that most of the city lacks. Window or sidewalk seats … Read More
Why is it that Elvis impersonators tend to choose the later Elvis as their model, not the svelte younger one? Perhaps because the heftier incarnation is a slightly easier one to ape. This is not for us to judge, but we will anyway. You can’t deny the global fixation with … Read More
