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The facepalm is a gesture used in many cultures as a display of frustration, embarrassment, shock, or surprise but when I use it tis usually to express frustration. The gesture has been popularized as an Internet meme based on an image of Captain Jean-Luc Picard performing the gesture in a Star Trek: The Next...
As long as I can remember cyclists have been a part of the traffic in Toronto and for the last couple of years there has been an ongoing dispute between cycling advocates and those who prefer to get around the city by car. This...
High profile events attract pop culture fashionistas like moths to a flame and when the celebs gather you can count on seeing clothes ranging from the fabulous to the...
British-born model and courtroom regular Naomi Campbell has again managed to piss off a bench full of judges and prosecutors. Campbell was recently ordered to give evidence at the...
Hailey Coleman is a rising star in Toronto’s galaxy of young entrepreneurs. Her company Damn Heels is “dedicated to saving women from their (beloved) damn heels.” The idea is...
This morning I found Paddy rooting through my makeup portfolio photos. When I asked him what he was doing he said he was looking for photos to submit to...
It is time to scrap Metro’s prostitution task force, or, at the very least, fire its chair, Metro Councillor Judy Sgro. The task force was supposed to bring interested...
A printed silk gown ca. 1912 attributed to French designer Paul Poiret (1879-1944). Measurements: Bust approx 92cm (36 in), Waist 72 cm (28 in). The current estimated value of this...
Depending upon who is collecting the statistics, there are anywhere between 5,000 to 25,000 regular heroin users in Toronto. Most of these people have one thing in common, they’ve...
About a year ago we wrote about Do Over Day for Angelina’s Wings, the journal that became the forerunner for Alexandra Highcrest Magazine. At the time we announced that...
It was during an editorial meeting, while we were all sitting around making excuses for why it had been so long since anyone had published a story, when Paddy,...
The Spirit of Occupy Toronto
Last Saturday (15th Oct.) the Occupy movement that has swept the industrialized world set down in Toronto. Anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 people converged on King and Bay, in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, to protest corporate greed and its handmaiden, compliant governments....
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