All four vegetarian courses of the joint dinner from SARA and chef Rachel Adjei
Toronto restaurants are used to lockdown restrictions being extended, but it doesn’t make navigating running a business during the pandemic any easier. With news spreading that the province is planning to extend the stay-at-home order to June 2, patio season might be further away.
In the meantime, we can keep supporting the new restaurants and food businesses opening through takeout and delivery. This week a beloved coffee shop opened a new location, two friends started selling steak sandwiches out their backyard, a popular ice cream chain is opening a new location in anticipation of the summer – and there are even
Chippy Nonstop
Some of us are still lamenting all the party invites we turned down pre-pandemic. Not Chippy Nonstop. The DJ/producer/vocalist is a queen of the night whether she’s behind the decks or dancing on top of tables.
“Everyone’s complaining, saying ‘I should have done more when shit was open’ but I was always in that mindset of taking advantage of every moment anyway,” she says over Zoom. “I don’t feel like I really missed anything before but I’m ready to get back into it.”
After the prolonged release of her joint album with dj genderfluid, she’s just ready to get back to the rave. They delayed the release, wary of the project slipping through the cracks because they wouldn’t be able to perform it live. Over time they realized the perfect moment to drop it wouldn’t be coming anytime soon.
NOW Magazine
The best Toronto music of the month according to NOW writers
A big roundup of new music from local artists, including Cadence Weapon, Dorothea Paas, Fiver, DijahSB and more By Richard Trapunski, Kevin Ritchie and Kelsey Adams
May 7, 2021
Cadence Weapon
It’s another Bandcamp Friday, the day when the online music seller waives its revenue share and puts all of sales into artists’ pockets. In honour of the musical holiday, NOW writers Kelsey Adams, Kevin Ritchie and Richard Trapunski rounded up some of our favourite new music by Toronto artists from this past month. It’s a supersized edition of this roundup with music from Bandcamp and beyond.
14 must-see shows at Contact Photography Festival 2021
14 must-see shows at Contact Photography Festival 2021
The 25th annual photo festival s shows will roll out across public spaces and galleries throughout the year By Kelsey Adams and Kevin Ritchie
May 6, 2021
Contact Photography Festival is celebrating 25 years of taking over Toronto billboards, building facades and galleries with photo- and image-based art. Since galleries remain closed due to pandemic restrictions, this year the festival is switching things up.
With more time to prepare than the 2020 edition, there was a concerted effort to bolster virtual exhibitions and outdoor programming. No longer working in the confines of the month of May, Contact will roll out shows into the fall to overlap with the city’s Year of Public Art initiative in September.
Jeff Bierk takes friendship to new heights at Contact Photo Fest
Jeff Bierk takes friendship to new heights at Contact Photo Fest
The portrait photographer celebrates a 10-year friendship with collaborator Jimmy James Evans in a photo series that subverts power dynamics By Kelsey Adams
Courtesy of Jeff Bierk/Photo by Micheal Cullen
In The Absence Of Paradise, In The Absence Of Virtue (2019), oil on photograph on panel (48”x72”).
FOR JIMMY by Jeff Bierk and Jimmy James Evans as part of
CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. At Dupont and Perth and Dupont and Emerson. May 1-30. contactphoto.com.
At the corners of Dupont and Perth and Dupont and Emerson stand two odes to friendship. For Jimmy, a series of two billboards that are part of the Contact Photography Festival, is first and foremost an outpouring of love from Toronto photographer Jeff Bierk to his close friend, Jimmy James Evans. In one portrait, Evans’s royal blue hair is scattered in the wind, his eyes pierci