Kids of Kensington

What’s with all the artist collectives springing up in Kensington Market? For young, creative types, things are simply easier when they do it together

Choose your own adventure

What if books were multimedia, able to link between ideas and possibilities? It might have helped EMILY KELLOGG decide whether fiction of the future was really her thing

Reflections on a literary mashup

Two weeks ago, over 20 people came to the Varsity office to create their own ‘literary mashups’: new works of short fiction and poetry from the sliced and diced bits of books about Toronto. Frankly, the results were much more accomplished than most of us would have imagined. Here are the thoughts of our editor, JADE COLBERT, who organized this whole project.

Q & A with Lee Ranaldo

CHRIS BERUBE talks with the co-founder of Sonic Youth

When you can’t quit your day job

Five artists discuss balancing your passion and paying the bills

Campus Art Attack

Often without realizing it, at U of T we are surrounded by public displays of art. Here's a quick glance at some of the places where, if you look close enough, it's easy to be inspired by the wallpaper

The Watchers: A Canadian Iliad

Public exposure: a short history of public art in Toronto

LaBruce Almighty

WILL SLOAN talks politics, pornography, and parody with Toronto’s most controversial filmmaker

My dinner with Daniel Johnston

Kurt Cobain and TV on the Radio have been among his fans. Can Johnston still be considered an “outsider” musician?

Bear and Skeleton Detectives Adventures

The case for an arts education

ALIXANDRA GOULD outlines the argument for why the arts matter in the classroom

What is Transmedia?

DAN EPSTEIN reports from The Futures of Entertainment Conference at MIT

Hardly singing the blues

A profile of U of T's jazz program

Short cuts

Three pieces of ultra-short fiction from the All-Arts Magazine

WAYN

Fiction by STEPHEN THOMAS

From YouTube to the dance floor

Local rapper Scotty Dynamo talks about technology, branding, and how to make it in music

From the editors