the newspaper layout editor and former Bloor Cinema manager catches up with her ex-colleagues in their new underground digs.     If you’ve never seen the 700-seat movie palace hidden beneath Toronto’s Queen & Spadina fashion district, you’re not alone. Lodged in the rear end of a half-vacant mall under a condo building at 186…

How do you like your Martini, shaken or stirred? Perhaps with a little school funding? Self cited as a religious organization, Trinity College’s James Bond Society club at U of T is primarily devoted to Bond,  James Bond. A typical event is a black tie affair with tuxes, dresses, movies and of course, martinis. Since…

Every activity has its icons, yet as our booze-themed issue approached, we realized it was surprisingly hard to catalogue a solid list of standout drunkards. It figures that truly cathartic figures of intoxication tend to opt for illegal substances. Drugs are cool. Alcoholism is for the uncle who picks those raging fights over the most…

There is a reason Trampoline Hall has transcended time and space. I can best describe this amateur lecture night as a bouncy castle of rejected smart-alecky essay topics delivered terribly well. 

On Feb. 24, Heather Moyse, U of T Master's graduate in occupational therapy, won gold in women’s two-man bobsleigh with Kaillie Humphries in the Vancouver Olympics.

It's Labour Day Weekend. While most people are savouring the last days of summer, you're holed up in a country house with four friends, feverishly hammering away at a 60,000 word novel that you must complete in 72 hours. There are many words to describe this ambitious feat: brutal, crazy, masochistic. Mark Sedore, winner of…

Reflecting, Najat Abdel Hadi calls her 17-year-old self a right-wing extremist and a member of the “righteous, infallible team” in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Now a recent graduate of the University of Toronto’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Hadi is an active board member of Yalla, a forum providing space to individuals with interest in the…

Two doctors from U of T’s David L. Macintosh Sport Medicine Clinic are heading to Vancouver for the Olympics, but not for fun and games. Drs. Ian Cohen and Julia Alleyne, sports medicine specialists who have longtime experience helping university athletes get back in condition, will be in charge of important medical facilities at the…

Simple props, simple costumes, and powerful words tell the tragic story of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard--a 21-year-old student tortured to death near Laramie, Wyoming, because he was gay. “I feel that Cat’s Eye is an appropriate place to do this because it provides an intimate relationship between the storyteller and the audience," says…

Along with the rapid urbanization of regions around the world, landscape architecture is becoming an increasingly important and growing field. On February 6, the John H. Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design will be holding a symposium that explores the work of up-and-coming and seasoned Canadian landscape architects. It will feature keynote speaker Charles…

Move over, Miss America. U of T graduate and lecturer Tahmena Bokhari has proven that beauty and brains can coexist when she won the title of Mrs. Pakistan World 2010 at the end of December. She has become the fourth married woman to represent Pakistan with the international title. As Mrs. Pakistan, Bokhari will assume…

Beginning on January 12, Guy Maddin takes up a week-long residency at Innis College’s Cinema Studies Institute to present a series of lectures and films in a self-examination of his oeuvre. Dubbed the Canadian David Lynch, Maddin is one of Canada’s most prominent filmmakers.