Walking into Colin Hutzan and Brian Nguyen’s Annex apartment feels like entering a forgotten antique shop that also happens to be a contemporary art gallery. It’s filled with improbable yet fantastical objects, like a gumball machine filled with pills, a giant wooden spider and a stuffed toucan wearing a bowler hat. Inside the couple’s shrine to the weird and wonderful. For all of our city coverage, visit torontolife.com or subscribe to our print edition. |
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| “I rent out the basement unit of my house. My tenant, a university student, calls me for everything. First she asked me to replace a lightbulb. I thought she was joking. Then it happened again. Now she wants me to change the clock on her stove. Is there a polite way to suggest she learn some basic life skills?” See what our Urban Diplomat says. |
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| Connor, a 22-year-old vintage clothing seller, thought he’d cancelled a date—until she turned up at the front door of his parents’ house in the middle of the night. “I woke up to my mom knocking on my bedroom door,” he says. “She looked like she’d been rudely awoken.” Read more here. |
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| Mark Rowswell moved from Canada to China in the ’80s, adopted the stage name Dashan and became one of his new country’s most beloved comedians. He hosts the TSO’s Lunar New Year celebration this weekend. Honouring the Year of the Snake, the show features performances by guzheng master Wu Fei and virtuoso violinist Stella Chen. Feb. 8, Roy Thomson Hall |
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