Yelp is an awesome app, right? – real people around the globe, rating and reviewing all manner of restaurants, shops & spas in passionate detail.  Reviewers take their Yelping […]

  What stands to be regarded as one of the best albums of 2012 is reggae legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Jimmy Cliff’s groovin’ new album […]

Literary Legend Margaret Atwood regales the crowd at DisC’s Gateway to Bohemia 2011 event. As the saying goes “The best way to predict the future, is to invent it.” The […]

Bill “Billy” Jamieson & his beloved dog Rameses at home [Photo: William Jamieson Tribal Art]   Bill Jamieson was a Toronto legend – a tribal art dealer obsessed with illuminating […]

Former skateboarder turned graffiti artist turned fine artist, Andrew Schoultz painted the entire exterior of Daniel Lanois’ Toronto studio in 7 days with a mural titled “The Winds Are Changin’” […]

Remember reading Shakespeare’s King Lear in high school? I did and thought it was a pretty memorable cautionary tale of how power can corrupt and result in epic tragedy.  But, […]

Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama.           Louis Vuitton’s Marc Jacobs is well known for his love of popular culture and Japanese avant-garde art [remember his 2002 […]

[One of the chicest women in the world: Iris Apfel, born 1921.] Dylan Thomas wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” about his desire for his […]

To all our Different and Cool American friends, Whilst you are enjoying Memorial Day bbq’s and spending your weekend with friends and loved ones, please take a moment to reflect […]

As it is one of our goals to create a Different Is Cool “Endowment for Cool” – a repository of funds to be distributed to aligned, worthy charities – we […]