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The Baconless Life: Your Bloggers Guide to Student Affordable and Healthy Food!
I’ve been a vegetarian for over four years. Just the other day, I tried chicken for the first time since then. It was a very impulsive decision made at The Ex, but I mean, it was The Ex, so there was fried food galore. As I ate my fried chicken ...
The Misfit Toy Trope
For the past eight years, The Toronto Burlesque Festival (which took place from August 27-30 this year) has hosted the finest local talent and some of the most spellbinding international performers hailing from New York, Japan, and even Switzerland. While most of the TBF showcases have a general theme (the ...
50 First Dates
For: Romantics Neighbourhood: North York Cost: $14 (Total price of food and drink for two at the Garden Cafe) I’ve always had my doubts about the romanticism of rain. It can be soothing if you are watching a storm from the comfort of your dry, warm abode, but I’ve never really ...
Why I Eat Bugs to Save the World
Last year I took a course in environmental psychology. That sounds totally weird, but the aim was to explore how environmental problems can be addressed in modern society, borrowing from sources in the environmental sciences, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Our main assignment was to develop a feasible campaign, based on ...
TIFF Review – Phantom Boy
In the new film Phantom Boy, police officer Alex Tanguey is injured on the job during a run-in with an enigmatic villain whose colourful, fragmented features earn him the moniker “the Man with the Broken Face.” Recovering in the hospital with a broken leg, Alex meets Leo, a gentle and ...
TIFF Review – Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story
If you could take Larry Clark’s Kids and merge it with Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, you would get a film like Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story. Directed and written by Eva Husson in her directorial debut, the film explores the vivid sexuality of a group of teenagers in ...
Review – The End of the Tour
An early scene in James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour depicts the first meeting between Jesse Eisenberg’s reporter Dave Lipsky and Jason Segel’s David Foster Wallace. Eisenberg awkwardly tries to break ice by commenting on the home and property, to which Wallace responds, “I can’t take credit for the ...
Hillside Music Festival still gives hope
In recent years, music festivals have positioned themselves firmly in mainstream consciousness, and what was once an alternative method of enjoying and experiencing music has now become a manufactured product of a growing industry. Many festivals in North America, like Osheaga, Wayhome, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, are all big-time, for-profit ...
TIFF Review – Love
When the film industry heard that Gaspar Noé was in the process creating of a 3D art film, it collectively sighed, rolled its eyes, and moved onto more interesting topics. For those unfamiliar, Noé is known for the sheer provocation, controversy, and shock value that his films incur. Knowing the ...
Make Campus Your Own
First year is the opportune time to explore some seriously cool, hidden places at UofT. Entering university can be a daunting time, and this article can help sculpt this vast St. George campus into a more intimate and personalized space.