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‘Profiles’ News

Theatre collective raises money for orphans in Ghana

Theatre collective raises money for orphans in Ghana

Friday, June 19, 2009 9:34

Growing up, Gordon, Michele and Singh had always tossed around the idea of running their own theatre company. They came up with Fly By Night as a way of helping an orphanage that had affected Gordon while also cultivating their collective love of theatre.

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New comedy site features budding Canadian talent

New comedy site features budding Canadian talent

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:28

Carl Hiehn catches up with Topher McFarlane to discuss his new comedy site, TheSketchers.com.

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A “Sketch” about Homeless Youth

Monday, May 4, 2009 18:46

Looking at my reflection in a storefront window, I adjust my tie, attempting to give myself that professional yet just-got-out-of-bed look – the style all young, soon-to-be hipsters strive for.

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Girls with guns

Girls with guns

Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:54

Chocolate and menstrual cramps are shared in the sisterhood of four tattoo artists and one piercer, in the black hallways and pink tattoo rooms of the all-female Bloor Street tattoo studio. On black leather couches, Sister Salvation’s Karen Stewart and Mistress Michelle banter about their childhood obsessions with sketching cartoons ...

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Toronto native trades cooking beets for dropping rhymes

Toronto native trades cooking beets for dropping rhymes

Sunday, March 1, 2009 20:33

Rohan Rojas is not afraid of death. The scariest prospect that could pan out for this 24-year-old rising hip-hop artist would be remaining a cook at the hot foods section of the grocery store where he lives and works in Maple, Ont. He won’t accept minimal success or life without ...

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Poetic expression helps poet relieve pain of depression

Poetic expression helps poet relieve pain of depression

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 14:54

Kiki Mahy came through depression, a divorce and a string of aborted degree attempts by focusing her pain into a collection of poetry

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Disclosing a little more

Disclosing a little more

Monday, November 10, 2008 9:54

Uteruses and binary were in no short supply at Heather Williams’ and Danielle MacDonald’s co-art exhibit, Disclosure, which ran from Oct. 27 to 30 in Gales Gallery at York University. The exhibition featured photography, painting and a blend of other mediums to investigate themes of identity, nature, the human body ...

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