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I am a thoughtful and passionate editor, journalist and writer with more than a decade of experience. Always versatile, I'm interested in stories that shift conversations and broaden ideas of arts and culture.
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T he COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder than ever to stay physically active, but one thing has helped: zombies. In 2012, Adrian Hon and his creative partner, writer Naomi Alderman, launched the mobile fitness gaming app Zombies, Run!
Toronto restaurants are having a hard time hiring back staff, but the problem goes back to before the pandemic. It’s not that people don’t want to work, they just don’t want to work at a job that underpays, abuses and treats them as disposable. This was one of the most popular cover stories in NOW Magazine history.
After a year with no concerts, these artists are building music culture and burning it down. I spearheaded this annual series of local musician profiles, one of our most popular issues of the year.
In my first big concert in more than a year and a half, I reflect on a ritual that once felt second nature.
Bay Street Video is one of the last bastions of a pre-Netflix era. Toronto Pillars is my series profiling longstanding legacy businesses that make the city what it is.
Exploring some of the biggest feuds in music history.
With so much of life happening online during the pandemic, some of the city's most vulnerable residents are being left out. "The internet is way too expensive. And I can't really live without it."
The hospitality brand's founder is sticking around, but management has vowed to make change after ex-employees criticized the company over discriminatory practices. In this investigation, I spoke to a dozen current and former employees about their stories.
The number of retail cannabis stores has quadrupled since the start of the pandemic, but how long can this retail boom really last?
With takeout a lifeline for the Toronto food scene during the COVID-19 pandemic, these restaurants want to break their reliance on third-party apps.
As rents go up and venues shut down, the underground is fighting for space. Seven promoters and musicians sound off on why parties matter and how we can make them thrive.
In Audible Songs From Rockwood, Simone Schmidt of Fiver sings the forgotten stories of women incarcerated a Kingston mental asylum—and questions who has the right to rewrite history.
What do you think of when you think of Canadian music? The time has come for the Canadian music conversation to change — or, perhaps more specifically, to begin anew.
For its whole history, rock has been fetishizing tortured artists. With their third album, Morbid Stuff, that’s exactly what PUP want to avoid.
Can you trademark a national dish? A story about arepas.
The more I think about it, the less I'm able to separate the band's name from their album.