Category: Arts & Culture

By Briar Stewart On the third floor of the Ryerson Theatre School, Erin VanderBurgh stands on top of a chair, shakes her petite figure and flashes a sly flirtatious smile while singing about life in a cabaret. “Don’t tell Mamma what you say,” she pleads, as she struts in between a chorus line of girls […]

By Brendan Edwards The sound system at Hooch booms with breakbeats punctuated by high pitch electric guitar riffs. A local MC named Misery stalks across the small stage, spitting rhymes in rapid succession. When he drops a clever one liner, the crowd pushes closes. “People really listen to the MCs here,” says host Addi Stewart, […]

By Amy Brown-Bowers Ginger’s rounded bottom bulged like a Victorian bustle from the bottom of his corset. His hair fell below his navel in rusty waves. I complimented him on his curls as he swooshed by. “It’s so fucking tired here” he says. “There are no fags to hold the roof up.” He walks back […]

By Jessica Whitby I am a pretty horrible dancer, so when my editor asked me to try out for Much Music’s Electric Circus, I was nervous. Yet, when I arrived for my audition I soon found out that not being able to dance was not as important as having the right look. A friend, who […]

By Fatima Najm Kimono-style shirts are cropping up on campus courtesy of Canadian retailers Le Chateau and Dynamite. Halter crops, fashioned from Chinese embroidered fabric, are not an unusual sight on the club circuit. Toronto-based clothing company Yellow Fellow has taken the familiar yellow smiley face and given it an Asian spin by adding slanted […]

By Fatima Najm As dance instructor Hamzat Brama demonstrates the dynamics of the salsa by twirling his petite partner almost fairy-like before bringing her back and then letting her go, it becomes quite clear that this man is one hell of an athlete. Bramo’s sport may not be about scoring goals, but scoring chicks is […]

By Fatima Najm Two words took three Ryerson graduates all the way to the first ever Surround Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, nominated for the same award as Pete Townshend and The Who on Dec. 13, 2002. “’Two words’, my friend said to me dramatically: ‘DVD-Audio,’ when I asked […]