• 01 2013 May

    AMANDA LANG: DRAGON TAMER

    PHOTOGRAPHS IVY LIN Journalist, broadcaster, author, mother, fashionista, businesswoman and dragon tamer. Amanda Lang is a woman with shoes that are hard to fill....

  • 01 2013 May

    FASHION: TORONTO’S STREET STYLE

    PHOTOGRAPHS DANIELA MITROVIC; RESEARCH MONICA PURBA Borrowing from grandmothers’ closets and runway trends,...

  • 01 2013 May

    THE PLAYER CHARACTER

    PHOTO-ILLUSTRATIONS ALEXANDER FRID On the opening screen of World 1-1 in the original Super Mario Bros., you assume control of a mustached little man in red overalls. He stands idle on a brick road bordered...

  • 01 2013 May

    SURVIVOR STORIES

    PHOTOGRAPHS JENNIFER WEILER High school, senior year: for most students, this is the year of college and university applications, prom, and...

  • 01 2013 May

    UNPAID INTERNSHIPS: THE CULTURE OF FREE

    PHOTOGRAPH PAUL SEYMAND Andre, a one-time animator who asked that I use a pseudonym instead of his real name (like a spy), was hired to do some unpaid 3D modelling at Toronto’s CORE Digital Pictures...

  • 01 2013 May

    NO SWEAT: Q&A WITH MARTIN READER

    PHOTOGRAPHS CASSANDRA D’ONOFRIO Martin Reader Curriculum Vitae: Age: 28 Home: Comox Valley, Vancouver Island, B.C. Sports: Swimming, Beach Volleyball Education: Camosun College, Victoria, B.C. Years in sport : 15 years; professional competitor since age 21;...

  • 01 2013 May

    EXOTIC GETAWAYS

    PHOTOGRAPHS AS CREDITED: Machu Picchu, Peru ALBERT NOGUEIRA NIELLES DREAMSTIME Travelling is what most of us aim to do at least a few times in our lives. Being able to take on the world with...

  • 01 2013 May

    HIPSTERS THROUGH THE AGES

    ILLUSTRATION MEGAN LUNN Every era has its own version of a hipster: edgy, ‘too cool for school’ attitude, and an intentional ‘effortless’ look (oh the irony!) See if you can spot the hipster in these...

  • 01 2013 May

    DEFINING THE HIPSTER

    PHOTOGRAPH DANNIKA MOSES You’ve seen them lurking just about everywhere, from thrift stores to boutiques....

  • 01 2013 May

    TRENDING IN TORONTO: TEA

    PHOTOGRAPHS JEREMAINE EBANKS Vibrant leaves are plucked off lively bushes and gathered in foreign lands. These leaves are then dried, sometimes crushed and steeped into billions of cups around the world. The aroma and taste...

  • 01 2013 May

    THE NAKED TRUTH

    PHOTOGRAPHS DANNIKA MOSES Strip clubs and burlesque shows are two social settings where an exposed body is to be expected....

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    01 2013 May

    THE V-CARD: HAVE YOU LOST IT?

    PHOTO-ILLUSTRATIONS MEGAN LUNN THE CONVERSATION It started as just another conversation with a Toronto taxi driver. But the typical ‘how was your day?’ type questions soon led to a surprisingly intimate tale of his life...

  • 01 2013 May

    HOW DO YOU DEFINE VIRGINITY?

      EMERGE asks: How would you define virginity? “Sex is a two part thing, doesn’t matter if you give or receive. Once you’ve engaged in it, you cannot classify as a virgin. You cannot claim...

  • 01 2013 May

    VINTAGE TORONTO: DISTILLERY

    VINTAGE TORONTO CONCEPT EUNICE WU; PHOTOGRAPHS DANIELA MITROVIC DISTILLERY DISTRICT The Distillery District, once The Gooderham and Worts Distillery, was founded in 1832 by brothers-in-law William Gooderham and James Worts. It was the biggest distillery...

  • 01 2013 May

    VINTAGE TORONTO: ENOCH TURNER SCHOOL HOUSE

    VINTAGE TORONTO CONCEPT EUNICE WU; PHOTOGRAPHS DANIELA MITROVIC ENOCH SCHOOL HOUSE The schoolhouse, one of the oldest buildings in Toronto, represents the history of the evolution of education in the city. Built in 1848 by...

  • 01 2013 May

    VINTAGE TORONTO: DOMINION HOTEL

    VINTAGE TORONTO CONCEPT  EUNICE WU; PHOTOGRAPHS DANIELA MITROVIC DOMINION HOTEL On the northwest corner of Queen Street East and Sumach Street sits one of the oldest hotels in Downtown Toronto. The Dominion Hotel,  built in...

  • 01 2013 May

    VINTAGE TORONTO: ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL

    VINTAGE TORONTO CONCEPT EUNICE WU; PHOTOGRAPHS DANIELA MITROVIC ST. JAMES CATHEDRAL Originally built of wood in 1807 as the ”church at York”, this Gothic Revival cathedral  is the fourth Anglican Church on the same site. ...

  • 01 2013 May

    NO ARTIFICIAL INGREDIENTS

    PHOTOGRAPHS MEAGHAN DECLERQ When we have a headache, we reach for Tylenol. When we have a cold, NeoCitran becomes our very best friend. Without question, we pop pills, whether prescribed or not, to rid us...

  • 01 2013 May

    ECO-FASHION DESIGNERS

    PHOTOGRAPHS CHRISTINE PSAILA Recycling isn’t only for the blue bin, paper and pop cans. Being environmentally conscious is a trend many Toronto designers are picking up on. Emma Paige Burchell, Will Fung, and Melanie Ferrara...

  • 01 2013 May

    TORONTO’S URBAN RADIO: AN OBITUARY

    ILLUSTRATION ALBORZ JESMI Much like Jackie Robinson broke into baseball’s major leagues in the late 40’s, the story of Toronto radio station Flow 93.5 is about overcoming obstacles and breaking barriers. Flow, started more than...

  • 01 2013 May

    HOSPITAL OF THE FUTURE

    Artist’s rendering and graphic courtesy of Women’s College Hospital. Walking down Grenville Street in Toronto, a cloud of brown dust rises up forcing me to cough into my sleeve with one arm and protect my...

  • 01 2013 May

    RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS

    PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION NICOLE MEDEIROS Twenty-five years ago when Lisa Brown started Workman Arts, mental health was a painful subject. Brown wanted to support emerging and established artists with mental illness and addiction, as well as to...

  • 01 2013 May

    FLOORBALL: LIKE HOCKEY, JUST FASTER & LIGHTER

    PHOTOGRAPHS JESSICA RAYMOND Canada is often stereotyped as a nation of igloo-residing inhabitants with a great love of hockey. One of these stereotypes actually bears some reality: hockey and everything affiliated with it is extremely...

  • 01 2013 May

    TORONTO SPORTS CURSE: MAPLE LEAFS

    PHOTOGRAPH JESSICA RAYMOND Toronto Maple Leafs logo is used with the permission of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd.  Last playoff appearance: 2003-2004 Last championship title: 1967   While interning with The Hockey News, I...

  • 01 2013 May

    5 TO 9: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE

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  • 01 2013 May

    PICK OF THE LITTER

    PHOTOGRAPHS KAILYNN FIFE...

  • 01 2013 May

    EMERGING: THE NEXT GENERATION IN QUOTES

    ILLUSTRATIONS MAYA ALENTIJEIRO Research by Bushra Layeq I wonder how many times throughout history an elderly individual, either sir or madam, has uttered the penultimate scoff of resignation: “Kids these days! They don’t know the...

  • 01 2013 May

    THE TEST OF TIME

    INFOGRAPHIC DESIGN DEMI YANG-OSMOND; MARIO-INSPIRED ARTWORK GRANT TABLER                       OTHER VIDEO GAME-INSPIRED IMAGES PHOKUSPOKUS DREAMSTIME  ...

  • 01 2013 May

    EMERGING: BIG TIME

    PHOTOGRAPHS CHRISTINE PSAILA AND KAILYNN FIFE “Quality over quantity.” That is what actor-producer Adrian Grenier said was his key piece of advice for participants who attended the inaugural Emerge conference at the University of Guelph-Humber...

  • 01 2013 May

    REARVIEW MIRROR: GRANT’S RANT

    PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION JEREMAINE EBANKS Do you remember The Jetsons? The Jetsons is a cartoon series originally airing in the early 1960s and set 100 years later in the early 2060s. The main character works one hour...

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