Apathy doesn't usually announce itself. It just shows up disguised as being busy, as needing a break, as “someone else will do something.” Complacency is what happens between crises—in the blue sky moments, it's easiest to assume the problem solved itself. It didn't. The budget is still cut. The next fire season is still coming. And Doug Ford is still in power, doing photo ops until we’re tired enough, or comfortable enough, to stop paying attention. 

Port Arthurians, rejoice: Dough Bagel Co has brought the city’s favourite bagels closer to the waterfront, opening a second location inside Goods & Co. last month.

I am so incredibly impressed with this album. The 16 songs off Fabricated Worlds feel like an epic journey that explores a new sound with each track, traversing genres you’d never have expected to hear.

Szturm’s debut solo exhibition, Discrepancies, intends to examine our preference for manicured versions of the natural world as it confronts viewers with dirt, pests, and what we leave behind—whether that’s intentionally or not. 

Killswitch Engage is spending plenty of time on Canadian highways this month, but for lead singer Jesse Leach, it’s not long enough. The American metal band is on a two-month tour, with the first couple of weeks seeing them hit stages across Canada (including a return to the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium).

Inspired by his childhood love for Nintendo 64, adventures with his siblings in “the magic field” by his house, the thrill of seeing Jaws for the first time, and struggles with anxiety, local filmmaker James Livitski created his first short film, Lasagna Run. 

“Everywhere you’d look, there'd be smiling faces. Lots of people really loved having it because they actually remembered when it happened in the 90s.” With all that being said, last year was just a warm-up; Harbourfest has even more in-store for the whole family this time around. 

You know the rules. 10 Plays. 10 Minutes. That’s right—the 10x10 Short Play Festival is back to celebrate theatrical talent in the city.

The club can’t handle Flo Rida, but Wake the Giant fans can this September.

Doughty’s film, To Keep Her, is a 90-minute horror/thriller made with his wife Tassia Dorsamy, exploring the literal and metaphorical experience of being in a toxic relationship.

Director Jeremy Torrie and his team at the Winnipeg-based White Bear Films are bringing a haunting piece of northern history to life with Coppermine, a sweeping historical drama based on Keith Ross Leckie’s 2008 novel of the same name.

It’s been seven years since Propagandhi’s last full length and things (gestures to genocidal conflicts, the environment, surveillance technology, billionaires, on and on) have continued on their downward spiral.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery will host the debut exhibition of local photographer and filmmaker Laura-Lynn Petrick, Hometown Anthems, running until June 8. The show will focus on highlighting Petrick’s experiences growing up in the rural outskirts of Thunder Bay, and provide a behind-the-scenes look at her family traditions and country life, blending her Finnish roots with the unique aspects of life in Northwestern Ontario.

A new short film has gained international attention after its premiere in New Zealand. My Friend Saabe, directed by Morningstar Derosier and Victoria Anderson-Gardner, was filmed in Migisi Sahgaigan (Eagle Lake First Nation), Derosier says, and screened in late March at the Māoriland Film Festival.

Add a splash of guitar, the essence of Circle Jerks, and a whole lot of angst, bring it to a roaring boil, and voila, there you have it: scalding punk anger—or in other words, RHOADS’s first official release, Idiopathic.

Closing out Magnus Theatre’s 2024–2025 season is Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade, a historical satire inspired by David Lynch, Hamilton, and the fur trade.

“It was a good opportunity to push my art practice in a new direction,” says textile artist Mary Jane MacDonald of her upcoming debut solo exhibition Slow Stitch: The Embroidered Landscape. “I wanted to experiment with embroidery and textiles and show other ways of doing it.”

Take a moment and imagine this: a horrifying world where the birds cease to sing, and artists refuse to create new works for lack of a muse. That’s the dimension where hot dogs were never invented. Thankfully for all of us, Station 22, located inside Dawson Trail Brewery, is making all of our dreams come true with their Chicago Hot Dog.

Sometimes, a good book allows us to escape the real world for just a minute. A musical does, too. But what happens when these two things collide? All the Daze’s latest musical Between the Lines will answer just that.