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July 19, 2010

Transgendered Canadian performance artist Nina Arsenault has been characterized as cyborg, intellectual, and artist. After sixty plastic surgeries to feminize and beautify her originally male body, Arsenault has become an icon for a new queer generation... Read More...

Margaret Atwood’s cameo misses final cut of Score: A Hockey Musical

July 16, 2010

Four decades ago, Margaret Atwood published her breakthrough satiric novel The Edible Woman. Who knew she would wind up being the Shred-able Woman?

On Wednesday the Star published my column about the Toronto International Film Festival’s opening night gala, Score: A Hockey Musical... Read More...

Generation X Author Moves from Fiction to Fashion

Douglas Coupland launches new line of clothing promising to 'explore a new way of seeing Canada'

Madonna's done it, so has Kate Moss - even Liam Gallagher's launched his own clothing line. But at last, Read More...

Watch NEW 2010 Videos: Erica Jong, Alex Cuba and Jake Shimabukuro

July 13th, 2010

Erica Jong is a poet, novelist and essayist best known for her eight best-selling novels: Fearof Flying, which has sold twenty million copies in thirty-seven languages, How to Save Your Own Life, Fanny: Being theTrue History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, Parachutes & Kisses, Shylock's Daughter (formerly Serenissima), Any Woman's Blues, Inventing Memory and Sappho's Leap... Read More...

Watch the 2010 ideaCity Videos!

June 30th, 2010

Watch presentations from Tavi Gevinson, Margaret Atwood, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Natalie Tran and Adora Svitak from ideaCity10

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson is the 14 year-old creator of the hit fashion blog, Style Rookie, and contributor to Pop magazine's blog: tavi... Read More...