Show & Tell Gallery has had a huge impact on Toronto’s contemporary art scene in the short time since it opened its doors. What began as an online venture quickly grew in supply and demand after its November 2008 involvement in the City Renewal Project, an installation work by street artists fauxreel and Specter. One [...]

Get ready to become a Guitar Hero with this axe courtesy of Sparrow Guitars. Established in Vancouver in 2004, Sparrow strives to make high-quality guitars affordable for kids high on rock ‘n’ roll spirit but low on g-notes. They feature custom hand-painted finishes in anything from decorative flourishes and flames to roaring cougar heads and [...]

I’ve got some pretty serious news I need to relay. Consider yourself lucky that you get to read it here first before the major news networks inevitably run with it. This is going to be my last issue with ION and I’m leaving to pursue my true passion: DJing.

Alain Macklovitch, aka A-TRAK, bridges the gap between this and that. He is a bridger of gaps. Turntable battlefield champion, Singaporean super-club sweatmaster, Dirty South Dance Party architect, Kanye’s tour DJ, record label executive; no sweat. A-TRAK has been blowing minds and ringing heads for well over a decade, since he became the youngest and [...]

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We are going to keep hammering this home in the magazine until we have more friends than this bloody hot dog stand in Vancouver called Japadog. Okay, in defense of the hot dog stand, they make a mean dog, but c’mon, what they can possibly have to let you know about? Our Twitter account [...]

Up for grabs is a pair of jeans courtesy of [Blank], which will save the day when you’re standing at your closet in your ginch. Coming from the team that brought us ODYN Denim, [Blank] offer multiple styles ranging from bold to acid wash colours, studded pockets to zip up legs and the ever so [...]