WHO WANTS A BRAIN MASSAGE?
I’m working on a new book project for an exhibition by Year Zero One in Toronto. The exhibition, medium_massage2.0: an infinite inventory, is curated by Michael Alstad and is concerned with contemporary perspectives on the ideas and creative processes illustrated in Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore’s 1967 book The Medium is [...]

MAJOR GAYZERS
The last time I’d heard The Gay Nineties play, it was February in a shitty little makeshift jam space, somewhere in butt-fuck nowhere East Vancouver bordering on Burnaby. I remember thinking, “Whoa, is this what the Zombies would sound like in 2011 if they weren’t doing the Casino circuit?” I spent the next five [...]

What do bacon covered doughnuts, green tea beer, strip clubs and farm-to-table restaurants have in common? A little place called, Portland. Much like the bran-muffin-hippy-jam society Portlandia portrays, Portland’s restaurant culture and nightlife is shockingly progressive for a society supposedly stuck in the 90s.

FLOWERS IN THE DUSTBIN
“Hi, can I please speak to Barry Hansen?” I ask the man over the phone.
“Barry Hansen?” the attendant replies with a thick Mexican accent. “Just a moment.”
A few seconds later, Jamie Hince, one half of The Kills, is on the line sounding pleasant, but tired in his Mexico City hotel room. Since [...]

DENIM GALLERY CAFÉ
This unique concept café/retail location is the brainchild of Michel Menard. He uses his showroom as a retail location where clients can shop for brands such as Timex, Levis, Ray Ban, Converse, Landyachtz Longboards and Vancouver designed Herschel Bags, while drinking Lavazza Coffee and noshing on grilled cheese sandwiches. Food and fashion-what could [...]

GUELPH CONCERT THEATRE
The first time Ethiopian-Canadian The Weeknd performed for his home city of Toronto, he drew a diverse crowd of hipsters, hip-hop heads, label A&Rs, Drake, and a handful of bigwig record execs, packing them all into The MOD Club on College Street, downtown.
Warner Bros. came away from that debut performance believing they were [...]

ALEXIA ANASTASIOU – Photographer
Every time Alexia feels suffocated by fashion, she remembers the day her childhood friend showed up in bright purple Guess jeans, beat up sneakers, and a baggy shirt falling off her shoulder, and then she falls in love all over again.