Vital Signs

If you’re gonna be in Chicago this winter, here are a couple things I’ve done with friends recently and are totally worth checking out: Gosp...

Incredible images from the Travel Photographer of the Year competition. Akash from Bangladesh, 2009 winner. Poras Chaudhary, India, winner...

I know, I know, we're all sick of end-of-the-year blog lists. But I've been looking at best-of and worst-of music lists for 2009 and...

The Olympic torch is coming through Toronto tonight and people are actually outside City Hall in the cold waiting for it and drinking cold C...

Is it just me, or does Johnny Depps' Mad Hatter owe more than a little to Madonna?

I usually find Wes Anderson's movies a little hit and miss, his highbrow irony too contrived, his offbeat humor often not funny, but I t...

I finally got around to watching Querelle, Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's last movie before dying of a drug overdose. When it came out in 1...

The Pet Shop Boys just sent out their Christmas cards, simple and festive at the same time as one would expect. They're celebratin...

Gee, Google really loves Sesame Street! It's been a week of dedicated banners. And speaking of Feist, she also digs the Street:

Holt Renfrew decided it’s Christmas time here in Toronto . They had Kristin Chenoweth scheduled to come unveil their window dressings for t...

The Rio Pride Parade brought in more than a million people to Copacabana last weekend, and the rain was no deterrent to revelers. Even Spide...

Posthumous homage or cash grab? A bit of both, of course. This Is It leaves you wishing that this concert would have come true -- it was g...

Of the two Brazilian film festivals in Toronto , the Brazil Film Fest is the one with the biggest budget – and the one officially supporte...

Good Hair For a documentary done by a comedian, Good Hair is neither particularly probing nor funny (even though it has some amusing momen...

Cirque du Soleil ’s latest installment -- and my first time under their tent -- adds a Brazilian flavour to the Cirque’s antics, cour...

It took her 20 years, but Kylie Minogue finally arrived in North America . She paraded her hits to an almost full Air Canada Centre Friday n...