NXNE Day Three: The Varsity’s guide to a week of rock!
Dramatic entrances, underwhelming stage presence and the same band twice in one night: DIIV — Lee’s Palace The side-project of Beach Fossils’ Zachary Smith, DIIV (previously Dive), showed up at Lee’s...
View ArticleNXNE Day 4: The Varsity’s Guide to a Week of Rock
There was plenty of defiance and verve on show on the fourth night of the fest: Ceremony — Wrongbar LA-based hardcore rockers Ceremony left a strong impression on an unsuspecting audience Saturday...
View ArticleNXNE Day Five: The Varsity’s Guide to a Week of Rock!
Although the final day of the fest was short on free pizza, NXNE ended on a high note: Foxes In Fiction — Studio 407 CHARTattack, a group of friendly music bloggers based in Toronto, set up an...
View ArticleFrats, Vampires, and Libraries
There are few cinematic thrills to equal seeing part of your town getting blown up on the big screen. We’ve all been there. And if you’re enrolled at the University of Toronto, you’ve probably seen...
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TIFF: the best and the rest
Toronto’s annual film extravaganza has returned with its diverse lineup of docs, dramas, comedies and everything in between. Here is The Varsity’s take on some of what TIFF has to offer this year. Hyde...
View ArticleStepping into the world
The endless theories about the dire state of Millennials entering the job market are unavoidable. Columnists gleefully exclaim that we’re a lost generation, that we’re lazy and entitled. More gently,...
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An epic tale of India
Midnight’s Children is Deepa Mehta’s love letter to India. Encompassing an impressive time-span in the nation’s history, the two-and-a-half hour film explores landmarks in India’s political past —...
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Digital dialogue
In an age of self-expression, where many of us treat access to the web as an informal go-ahead for the title of part-time critic, audiences have more power than ever to share opinions on the culture...
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Unwind your mind
As a professor of mine once noted while mentally mapping out U of T’s campus, “real life starts after Spadina.” He was no doubt referring to the University of Toronto bubble, a place of great comfort...
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Parents, community, hip hop
You may not be aware of it, but there’s a new music scene on the rise in Toronto, one that’s been taking shape since the late 2000s. Second- and third-generation Punjabi youth in Canada and the gta...
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