Chris Rattan
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CBC arts show In The Making demystifies the genius artist
Documentary series travels Canada and the world to create portraits of artists in the midst of making new work more
Virtual reality film imagines an Indigenous future for Toronto
Nature reclaims the city in director Lisa Jackson's room-scale VR experience Biidaaban: First Light more
TIFF review: Sew The Winter To My Skin
Canadian actor Kandyse McClure stands out in Apartheid-era pic about the hunt for South African folk hero John Kepe more
Maisie Cousins
Review: Anna Calvi uses rock 'n' roll to subvert the gender binary on Hunter
Album review: Singer/guitar shredder Anna Calvi is in a new era of openness, and it's pushed her to new heights on this third album, Hunter. more
TIFF review: Les Salopes or The Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin
Renée Beaulieu's drama about an academic studying the link between skin cells and desire is a fascinating, if uneven, exercise more
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10 must-see queer films playing at TIFF 2018
This year's fest is light on queer content, but we dug into the program to round up key titles plus films with prominent queer directors, writers and actors more
TV review: Random Acts Of Flyness uses its late-night slot to critique modern America
An experimental sketch comedy series from director, creator and star Terence Nance is a hard-hitting critique of contemporary American life that mixes live action, animation, video footage and puppetry. more
TV review: Insecure: Season Three is beginning to get repetitive
Issa Rae's series could probably coast on its wit, social commentary and cast, but its characters seem stuck in the same situations more
Review: The Miseducation Of Cameron Post delivers mixed messages
Desiree Akhavan's engaging drama about teens at a gay-conversion camp suffers from uneven characterization more
Photos by Samuel Engelking
Toronto Caribbean Carnival costumes go high tech
As carnival culture spreads globally, local costume designers are using technology to rekindle interest in old traditions more
Samuel Engelking
Toronto students learn the art of Ol’ Time Carnival
Veteran designer Clarence Forde will teach carnival history to grade-schoolers this fall more
Succession Raghubir Singh
ROM's #MeToo exhibit shows why we can’t separate art from artist
The museum tackles sexual assault allegations against influential photographer Raghubir Singh – and reframes his work in the process more
Eight can't-miss events at queer festival Bricks and Glitter
The community-based arts event takes over venues across Toronto's west end from July 19-29 more
Samuel Engelking
Janelle Monáe's Rebel concert was a celebration of freedom and self-love
Review of Janelle Monáe's Toronto concert at Rebel: With a joyous, ambitious performance, the newly out pop singer's performance was the truest version of the story she's been telling since the beginning fo her career. more
Samuel Engelking
Bricks and Glitter: a new queer festival that's "for us, by us"
The 10-day grassroots event is more than just an alternative to Pride Toronto more
Review: It's time to call a moratorium on docs about Whitney Houston
Kevin Macdonald's authorized film Whitney paints a dimensionless portrait of the late pop icon more
Fringe review: Here Me
Solo performance piece about deaf identity wants to be radical but ends up conventional more
Virgins!
Toronto-set web series Virgins! celebrates the joys of being sexless
Black women on TV are increasingly affirming their desire for sex. But with Toronto-based web series Virgins!, creator Aden Abebe chronicles the lives of four millennial women as they navigate adulthood without a certain rite of passage more
Fringe review: Josephine, A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play
Tymisha Harris is magnetic in this hugely entertaining biographical play about the first African-American to take her 30s-era stardom global more