In today’s edition of This City: meet the director who mortgaged his house to make a doc about MuchMusic, the geography whiz Icelandic TikTok is calling the smartest man in Canada, and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our city coverage. |
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In 299 Queen Street West, filmmaker Sean Menard chronicles how MuchMusic, once known as “the nation’s music station,” defined a generation and changed music history. Here, he talks about mortgaging his house to finance the doc, the time he went (nearly) naked on Electric Circus and how he feels about getting snubbed by TIFF. |
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| | Aidan Simardone has always been a geography buff, but now his nerdy pastime has turned him into a TikTok sensation. It all happened last week, when the immigration lawyer was approached by a man with a microphone. The planned gag was to show how little the average Torontonian knows about Iceland, but in the viral video, Simardone drops an encyclopedic knowledge of the Nordic nation. Read our Q&A with the so-called smartest man in Canada. |
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What to read, watch and listen to in September |
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| | “Cleopatra is a brilliantly written and researched biography of one of the most famous and powerful women of all time. It offers a different perspective on the queen of Egypt than the one we’re used to seeing in Hollywood. I’d recommend it to all non-fiction buffs.”
—Recommended by Rama Rau, writer, director and producer |
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| | Robert Konashewych was a police officer with expensive tastes, two girlfriends and a mountain of debt. Heinz Sommerfeld was recently deceased with a large unclaimed estate. In our October issue, read the story of a crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud. Plus, the general contractor from hell, Toronto’s best farm-to-table chefs, a Q&A with new Raptors coach Darko Rajaković, and more. Still not receiving Toronto Life at home? Subscribe today. |
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