Evan Davies, Author at NOW Toronto

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Make your own porno

January 21, 2009

Kevin Smith's Zack And Miri may have brought the idea into the multiplex, but DIY porn is nothing new. What better way to spend those...

Lifestyle

Make your own soup

January 21, 2009

Tinned soups and Tetra Paks are fine in a pinch, but popular brands can be crammed with sodium and other crap, so why not leave...

Lifestyle

Become a beer baron

January 20, 2009

Cold nights and alcohol go together like logs and fire, but warming yourself up with a little nip or two can get pricey. So why...

Lifestyle

Get high and go to the mall

January 20, 2009

If you're bored, you might want to get high and hang out at the mall.A stupid idea, you say? Well, consider this: the mall is...

Lifestyle

Waste time fucking with people online

January 20, 2009

Message boards are full of dipshits and assholes. They bitch about all the silly drama in their lives, about the next Batman movie and all...

Lifestyle

Learn medieval martial arts

January 20, 2009

Are Muay Thai or Brazilian jiu-jitsu just too ordinary for your martial tastes? Consider how badass knights used to impale each other with swords and...

Lifestyle

Blasphemy rocks

January 7, 2009

ROTTING CHRIST with MANTIC RITUAL, EPICUREAN and PANZERFAUST at the Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst), Monday (January 12), 7 pm. $23.50. 416-870-8000.As far as metal band...

Music

V.I.C.

January 7, 2009

Rating: NWhen someone says, "Try this if you like Soulja Boy," it's kind of like saying "Man, if you dug that first venereal disease, wait...

Album reviews Music

Evan Davies’s Top Discs

December 22, 2008

1 NACHTMYSTIUM Assassins (Century Media) Intensely spiteful progressive blackened metal that basically pisses all over the boring old purists of the scene. This will be...

Music

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore

December 17, 2008

Rating: NNNThe ever-evolving Bohren have always been a bit tricky to pin down. From ambient to minimalist film-noiresque compositions to dark jazz with subtle nods...

Album reviews Music

Britney Spears

December 3, 2008

Rating: NNAs the album's title so baldly suggests, it seems we're all supposed to have this infinitely lingering fascination with Britney Spears and her ridiculous/depressing...

Album reviews Music

The World Provider

November 26, 2008

Rating: NNNNThe World Provider frontman Malcolm Fraser's croon that floats halfway between heartfelt sincerity and cartoonish parody and omnipresent slacker falsetto make it hard to...

Album reviews Music

Q&A: Ben Curtis of School of Seven Bells

November 18, 2008

Ethereal Brooklyn shoegaze-psych trio School of Seven Bells started as a side project involving Ben Curtis of the Secret Machines and twins Alejandra and Claudia...

Music

Little Joy

November 12, 2008

Rating: NNNWhile the Strokes are on hiatus, drummer Fabrizio Moretti's new three-piece still manages to incorporate some of his other band's jangly garage elements.[rssbreak]He also...