Jess Bloom

This is about so much more than ketchup and fries

Why do mundane real-world jobs make for such fun digital experiences?

I Think About This a Lot is a series dedicated to private memes: images, videos, and other random trivia we are doomed to play forever on loop in our minds.
When Kim Kardashian was 30 years old, she briefly married basketball player Kris Humphries. The marriage lasted 72 days and their relationship has since become a blip on her pop-culture legacy — but within that blip is a blip that I think about every time I brush my teeth. In those moments, with a vibrating electric brush between my lips,...

An art tour of a sex club.

The wait-to-reward ratio is skewed, and I'm not buying it

There are plenty of places in Toronto to catch a drag show. The public library is one of them. On the morning of December 30, the Jones branch hosted a New Year’s edition of Drag Queen Storytime. It’s RuPaul’s Drag Race meets Reading Rainbow, a family-friendly event where toddlers yell “Yaaaaasss” as queens read LGBT-themed picture books. The kids couldn’t take their eyes off of Erin B. and Lucy Flawless, two stunning Amazons in full face. We went to the packed event to speak with kids, paren...

There are rock stars, and there’s Liam Gallagher. He’s in a league of his own, even when he’s just making a cup of tea backstage. But how do you photograph an icon? He’s the singular voice that inspired teens around the world to pick up their first acoustic guitar and pluck “Wonderwall.” And also the voice that’s quick with a tasty insult—on his press tour for his newly released solo album As You Were, he dismissed the entire ocean with, “…fuck the sea. I ain’t going in that. Fuck that, mate....

Toronto’s Rita Leistner has decades of experience as a war zone photographer, but she battled a different sort of rough terrain for her new portrait series, The Tree Planters. At first glance, her images look like the posed dioramas you might find in the ROM, but the shots are so full of detail that you can almost smell the sweat and bug spray. The large-scale photos will be on display at Stephen Bulger Gallery until November 18, alongside drone video footage that shows exactly how Leistner w...

To get more insight into the creative spaces and habits of Long Winter’s artists, we visited five studios and asked the artists how they stay productive during the freezing, dark months.

Astrology profiles of Mariah Carey Songs on R&B fanzine "How Does It Feel." (Scroll down on the site!)

Behind-the-scenes of a food magazine that's so much more than recipes.

The inside scoop on Taco Bell's brand relaunch.

According to a new study, female bats vomit blood into their hungry peers' mouths. We asked the researchers what this means about the power of female friendship....

For people with dacryphilia, "cry me a river" is a pick-up line....

Toronto's King of the Dot is one of the longest-running and most respected battle rap leagues in the world. KOTD live events have been hosted by Drake, Too $hort, Method Man, and Raekwon. YouTube videos of the battles have pulled in millions of views. It's easy to see why: This is rap in its rawest, most offensive, and most immature form—MCs lay down bars that touch on their opponents family, race, sexual orientation, appearance, and whatever else they can grab hold of.