This weekend.
{ Read about - then go see - these art shows }
top: Derek Mainella. bottom: the next gen, a.k.a OCAD
{ Where to put a red-light district in Toronto? }
Not sure if you’d hate me for (sort of) doing what I say we shouldn’t be, but the conversation about this terrible idea has been missing the point entirely. For The Grid.
{ The new Tupperware party }
Women renting dresses. Buying jewellery. Buying chocolate. Whatever. With cocktail service. This week’s column, in The Grid.
"Of course, the act of hair removal on every piece of bodily real estate is almost expected. But not one’s head, especially not a woman. And when it is, it’s a subversive, marveled thing… Not even America’s sweetheart Britney Spears could make being bald popular; instead, she was pitied, psychologically evaluated and ridiculed."
— “At the Root of Beauty.” Being neurotic about losing my hair and being a man and why it’s the one cross-cultural thing that is supposed to makes us feel beautiful/confident/powerful/rich. For The Genteel.
{ Whiskory: A history lesson: Prohibition x Canadian Club }
…also known as “What I did in Windsor for 24 Hours.” I toured a mansion. Drank enough to fuel a country album. Click for pics, word play, etc etc etc.
In Toronto magazine, March 2012. My feature on Montreal designer Travis Taddeo, online now.
"The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work—especially his first full-length book—and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence."
— Paul Johnson. Another Paul, same story. About how to write, and why I write, and keeping writing, and never stop, not even for online commenters.
{ Up & Coming: A new art/sex/etc mag }
More photos in the gallery. Click the link. By Becca Lemire. For The Grid.
{ The curious case of being a "white" "non-white" }
A guest contribution I did for the Ethnic Aisle. About being from two different races, and growing from two different places.
{ Have You Met Krane? }
Look up (^) then. There’s been a continual tide in menswear that comes and goes, comes and goes. In Canada, we’re the strongest we’ve ever been. I talk to Ken Chow about his collection, his challenges, and becoming a designer for a complicated market. For The Genteel.
"Indeed, this is what Fashion Week in Toronto is, or what it has always been, and what it will continue to enforce: big, bad kids with big, brittle egos, at big shows with big audiences in little bleachers, checked off from big guest lists, ambivalent to the little kids with big talents because, omg, is that a new street style photographer? (Even though everyone knows that the only person worth being photographed by lately is Fashion magazine’s Lewis Mirrett.)"
— From The Night Shift: Dear “fashion” kids, please return to Earth. Same shit, different day.
"The reality is that these places don’t do much to quell a growing city-wide income disparity, where everything may look pretty but the prices are perpetually on the rise."
— Me, on beautiful bars in now-more-beautiful Toronto, and the reality of it all. In The Grid this week.
{ Q+A: Denise Cronenberg, costume designer }
Yes, that Cronenberg. The #RPatz fans went nuts with this because, well, she dressed him in his next movie, Cosmopolis, and we talked about that + other serious costume designer-y things. For The Genteel.
