Anya Wassenberg

Kate Upton’s $1.5 Million Engagement Ring And 23 Other WAGS With The Most Expensive Blinged-Out Rings

WAGS – the wives and girlfriends of professional athletes – lead a rarefied lifestyle of expensive clothes, jewelry, evenings on the town, and luxurious getaways. Still, with all that money, at least some of the fairy tale has to be true, right?

15 Deep-Sea Secrets About The Ocean We Can’t Explain

The Earth’s oceans make up more than 70 per cent of the planet, and we’ve only just barely begun to explore them. Despite the fact that human beings have been sailing the seas for hundreds of years, we have only seen about 5 per cent of every thing it holds. There’s a lot of deep, dark environments, animals, and mysteries lurking down there, in other words.

Sykamore- Self + Medicine

Self + Medicine is the second release for singer/songwriter Sykamore. The native of Carseland, Alberta has been recording since 2012, and released her debut album PETAL in 2013. Sykamore has spent a lot of time between then and now on the road honing her stage presence opening for acts like Adam Cohen, Miranda Lambert, and Paul Brandt.

Actors The MCU Regrets Ever Casting

Getting a shot at a Marvel superhero role is one of those once-in-a-lifetime chances to make gold out of the roller coaster ride that is an acting career. And, sometimes, those casting directors make exactly the right choices. After all, who could possibly have done a better job at playing Tony Stark than Robert Downey, Jr.? It’s hard to imagine a more perfect Thor than Chris Hemsworth or a more convincing Cap than Chris Evans.

15 Embarrassing Family Photos Celebs Wish We Never Saw

Awkward family photos — we’ve all got them, or maybe they’re hiding at mom and dad’s place, waiting to be taken out and displayed at gatherings of the clan on holidays. For most of us, that’s about as public as they become. When you’re a celebrity, though, those horrible old pics are just more fodder for the insatiable appetites of fans and haters alike.

15 Photos Of Movie Heroes Who Are Actually Real-Life Villains

Movie heroes played by real life villains. It’s not that the idea is surprising or even unexpected. They do call it acting for a reason. And movie heroes, whether they are the superhero champions of cartoons or meant to be grittier and more realistic, are the epitome of Hollywood fantasy – the dude who can fist fight his way out of a gang of bad guys. The exotic mutant team who saves the world. We’re not expecting realism here.

15 Photos Of Hillbilly Weddings That Make Us Never Want To Get Married!

Hillbilly weddings have a look and design aesthetic all of their own — it’s not surprising. The hillbilly lifestyle is a true American cultural phenomenon. It has roots in Appalachia and the Ozark region, but has often been used to describe the type of life lived in the largely rural areas of the country from Ohio to Florida. It’s a lifestyle based around the outdoors and life in the country, whether it’s farming, fishing, hunting or other woodsy activity.

15 Horrifying Things You Didn’t Know About Prison

Prison isn’t meant to be a picnic — we get it. But still, something seems to happen to human beings when you put them into a cage. It creates a whole new kind of sub-society with rules that amount to the law of the jungle on steroids. Instead of right and wrong, you end up with wrong and horrifying.

Local Music Teacher Sues After Elementary School Calls Song Racist

Land of the silver birch, Home of the beaver…

The words are familiar to generations of schoolchildren, trotted out with Ian Tyson’s Four Strong Winds and other Canadiana in elementary schools and summer camps across the country for decades.

Times have changed. Violet Shearer, a music teacher at High Park Alternative Public School, included the song in a school concert in May 2016. About two weeks later, after some parents allegedly expressed concerns, the school’s principal and vice-principal sent out an email to the entire school community denouncing the song, which they called inappropriate and racist. As reported in The Toronto Star, the email claimed, in part, “While its lyrics are not overtly racist…the historical context of the song is racist.”

Why Are Toronto’s “Big 6” Arts Boards Nearly All Men, And All White?

In Toronto, recent headlines and casual observation tell us that visible minorities now make up the majority of the population. If you perused group pictures of the board of directors of Toronto’s major mainstream arts organizations, however, you might be forgiven for wondering whether the headlines were an exaggeration. When it comes to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), Canadian Opera Company (COC), Tafelmusik, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and The National Ballet of Canada, overall board members are still largely white, and in some cases, still largely male.