11 October 2019
Pilot Watch + 1: 2019 Network Dramas
By Kelly Bedard // TV
The new TV season is upon us! As we mourn the slaughter of all the great shows that had to die so these ones could live (RIP, For the People …
09 October 2019
Favourites Series: Kelly Bedard talks to Frank Turner
By Kelly Bedard // Music
About the Favourites Series: One of our favourite things is to listen to our favourite people talk about their favourite things. In this series, we’ll be inviting some awesome guest …
21 September 2019
Favourites Series: Clare Blackwood talks to Felicia Day
By Clare Blackwood // Books
Welcome to the first episode of our brand new Favourites Series! …
20 September 2019
The End of Orange is the New Black
By Kelly Bedard // TV
When it premiered in July 2013, Orange is the New Black was only the third original show on Netflix. House of Cards, which I’ve always maintained wasn’t half as good …
06 September 2019
Out of Town Report: Bard on the Beach’s Taming of the Shrew in Vancouver
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
Spaghetti Western is a popular approach for Shakespeare’s most controversial comedy (in fact this production…
03 September 2019
2019 at the Shaw Festival
By Kelly Bedard // Theatre
After I saw Brigadoon, the Shaw Festival’s magical staging of a reimagined classic musical, I right away sat down to write about the experience. At least for me, the night …
14 August 2019
SummerWorks, 2019
By Dom Harvey // Theatre (Toronto)
805-4821 (A) “805-4821 is a trans coming out story made out of other stories: a dialogue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a half-remembered swim lesson, and an 80,000 word Facebook correspondence” This …
09 July 2019
ATX Season 8: An Interview w/ MPAC’s Sue Obeidi
By Vyasar Ganesan // TV
One of my favorite panels from the ATX Television Festival was called “Resistance, Inclusion, and Creating Authentic Muslim Narratives.” Moderated by Vanity Fair’s Sonia Saraiya, the panelists spanned an impressive …
17 June 2019
Burning Out His Fuse Up Here Alone
By Kelly Bedard // Cinema
Paramount’s Rocketman is a bold, sentimental, messy, complex, obvious, colourful contradiction. If that sounds to you like a bad movie, you normally wouldn’t be wrong. But this is a movie …
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