Arts & Culture

Hamsters are small, fluffy, cute-faced rodents that some people choose to live with. They sleep during the day, scurry to nowhere on exercise wheels at night, and rarely make it to their third birthdays. Hamsters are not epic. With one possible exception. Copain is a sweet-natured gay hamster from Paris. He falls in love with […]

Life is a struggle, we’re often reminded. When people engage in a tussle for a truth, the rest of us gather around to watch, in rapt attention. It’s not a matter of cruelty—we’re not intentionally withholding help. We’re waiting to learn from that person’s efforts. Witnessing struggle may very well be a viewer’s role in […]

CottonlandSeptember 15, 7:05pm, Park Lane, $10 Hitting close to home, photographer Nance Ackerman, best known for her striking portraits of First Nations women, turns a camera lens on how the addictive prescription drug OxyContin has become a signifier of the devastating social problems facing the community of Glace Bay. Ackerman collaborated with recovering addicts to […]

The first thing you notice is the energy. Toronto is a fast town. Millions of people live here. They drive fast, they walk fast, they text fast. A normal day in Toronto is a fast one. Add some more people, then, and you’d think you might not notice. At Sundance every January, the tiny resort […]

It’s the culmination of five years of hard work, of personal savings accounts emptied and credit cards dipped. So-called rational people might consider this kind of investment a risk worthwhile only for real estate, but thankfully there are guys like Chris Cuthbertson and Drew Hagen, guys who just want to make movies and are willing […]