[Pre-FAT]: An Interview with Anahita Azrahimi
MONDO is ecstatic to be covering Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week [FAT], one of Toronto’s most exciting fashion events. The [Pre-FAT] series features short and sweet interviews with some of...
View ArticleScotiabank CONTACT 2010: An Interview with Ruth Kaplan
By Kerry Freek Have you ever wondered what draws people to faith? As a teenager, I was once asked to attend a Pentecostal service with some friends from school. More out of curiosity than any kind of...
View ArticleInterview: the red light district’s Ted Witzel
By Kerry Freek Based loosely on a true story (told through the eyes of dramatist Karl Georg Büchner), Woyzeck tells the sad tale of a man driven mad by societal forces, culminating in the murder his...
View ArticleDiva of Parkdale Takes on Beauty with Miss Toronto
By Kerry Freek You may have seen her. Trapped in time, she resides in a weathered mural on the wall at the Rhino in Parkdale. It’s Miss Toronto 1926, holding a trophy and wearing a headpiece and dress...
View ArticleAn Interview with Bryan Lee O’Malley
Interview by Owen Craig Bryan Lee O’Malley is the creator of and cartoonist behind the popular Scott Pilgrim series. MONDO: I’m sorry, I know this is the most obvious question - Bryan: How does it...
View ArticlePreview: I Was Barbie
By Jen Handley “I consider my body the result of a long creative process,” says the disarmingly frank Nina Arsenault, a transgendered artist and the star of I was Barbie, which begins its SummerWorks...
View ArticlePreview: The Sad and Cautionary Tale of Smackheaded Peter
By Jen Handley “He has this vision of leading people towards each other by giving everybody access to low-cost heroin, so they don’t have to dedicate their lives to petty crime, they can go and...
View ArticleOwen and Curtis Kill Shakespeare
By Isaac Mills (Hey Readers, how are you? Good? Good. Listen, we’re going to engage in a bit of nepotism here at MONDOcomcis this week. You see, one of our regular writers (Owen Craig) and one of our...
View ArticleInterview: Ross Bonfanti
This weekend, we talked with Ross Bonfanti, one of the artists taking part in The Artist Project Toronto (March 3-6) at the Queen Elizabeth Building on the Exhibition grounds. What draws you to toy...
View ArticlePreview: The Simian Showcase
MONDO’s art department doesn’t often have the opportunity to geek out as much as its neighbouring departments, Comics and Film. It’s just our luck, it seems, that tonight Monkeyman Productions, the...
View ArticleInterview: Doug Benson, Man of Many Pies
Comedy and bloodshed go together like soybean butter and jelly – just ask any fan of Kick-Ass, Pineapple Express, or the Three Stooges. Maybe this is why so many comedians love UFC. Whatever the...
View ArticleInterview: Daniel Kurland of The Raisin Gang
By Meagan Snyder The Raisin Gang’s members are active in Toronto’s sketch comedy community, translating their fast-paced and often absurd sketches into innovative live shows as well as high-quality...
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