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May 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

Pop-Post Modernism

by JAMES WATKINS-STRAND for urbanemagazine.org

The Internet has permitted the dissemination of massive quantities of user-generated content, most of which takes the form of what could be referred to as recordings, or products, of the quotidian, including, but evidently not limited to: writing, photography, and music. The most wildly successful websites to date, such as MySpace and Facebook, have fundamentally been hubs for interconnecting, distributing, and documenting daily occurrences. The trend is a progression towards [...]

May 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

Not Naked But Famous: A Blissful Electric Earful

by ALYSSA PITTAO for Urbane Magazine.

Culture contributor Alyssa Pittao gives her take on buzz band “The Naked and Famous” and their performance on the New Music Live stage.

The Naked and Famous, not to be mistaken for a jean brand of the same name, are making waves in the indie scene. But try this sound on for size. Culture Contributor Alyssa Pittao gives her take on the buzz band which is likely to make it [...]

May 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

TEMPERATE SEASONS

Selected Streetstyle by Alyssa Pittao and Jessie Lau

Spring has sprung and the fashionable Torontonian has emerged from their winter cocoon- here’s a number of Urbane’s captures from across the city.

November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Galleries of Toronto

by TREVOR BLUMAS for Urbane Magazine When we see an art gallery pop up in an otherwise non-descript neighborhood, it usually seems to be a sign of things to come. Regardless of their reasons for the move, (usually cheap rent) art galleries tend to attract, well, other art galleries. Then before you know it, slum [...]

November 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

Beauty Report: Bringing Beauty Back Down to Earth

By Andrew Lovesey for Urbane Magazine Collagen, Botox, face-lift, nose job, and plastic: these are all terms that have crept their way into our modern-day beauty vocabulary. Why it that the sense of re-creation has been paired with such a toxic connotation? Whether it is smeared across the tabloids on the bodies of celebrities, showcased [...]

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