Watch Philip Sayce perform live at The Montreal Jazz Festival.

Degrassi alumni and up-and-coming rap star Drake, a recent signee to Lil Wayne's Young Money label who has been covered in NOW here and here, has just released his debut video, directed by none other than Kanye West.

An artist profile of Anna Pantchev.

Sorry for mixing these two reminders together, but I’ll try to segue. Summerlicious begins today and the city has announced changes to the garbage strike dump sites.

In the wake of the Transformers sequel’s conquest of the global box-office, with audiences worldwide throwing money down to see Michael Bay’s latest incoherent mecha-gasm, I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of the modern action movie.

I don’t know how I got to thinking about Commodores lately. It was most likely tied to recently finding a program that let me play old C64 games on my phone. Maybe I’m just getting bored of OSX.

A look at how last year's Fringe playwrights promoted their shows in Toronto.

It pays to stick around. Those who stayed for Sonic Youth’s entire Massey set, including the two two-song encores, were treated to a blazing final song: Death Valley 69, from 1985's Bad Moon Rising.

Day 11 of the strike: With evidence mounting both sides in the city workers strike are willing to ride this one out, (catch inside workers' union head Ann Dembinski's rah-rah Canada Day telephone message to workers?) some businesses have taken to extreme measures to safeguard their bins from would-be dumpers.

Call me a block head, but compared to the cookie-cutter condos going up to house the masses, the stylishness of our World War II-era low-rises is often overlooked.