TIM MURTON: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
TIM MURTON: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST PHOTOS & STORY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘I’m naturally inclined to be an artist,’ Tim remarks, pulling on…
AN EXCURSION INTO FALL: SPIRIT TREE CIDERY
AN EXCURSION INTO FALL: SPIRIT TREE CIDERY PHOTOS & STORY BY CHRIS TIESSEN As we tear across open countryside somewhere between …
CRAFTING NOSTALGIA: SEAN KANE AND HIS PAINTED GLOVES
CRAFTING NOSTALGIA: SEAN KANE AND HIS PAINTED GLOVES BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘So you’re basically in the Hall of Fame, then?,’ I inquire wi…
MULBERRY STREET COFFEEHOUSE: HAND-CRAFTING AN AUTHENTIC SPACE
MULBERRY STREET COFFEEHOUSE: HAND-CRAFTING AN AUTHENTIC SPACE STORY & IMAGES BY CAI SEPULIS It’s a quiet morning on James Street…
LEATHER OBSESSIONS: LITTLE KING GOODS
LEATHER OBSESSIONS: LITTLE KING GOODS BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘Let me get this straight,’ I exclaim to Ryan James over americanos in the small hamle…
INVITING PERSPECTIVES: THE MESMERIZING WORLD OF ARTIST HEATHER KOCSIS
INVITING PERSPECTIVES: THE MESMERIZING WORLD OF ARTIST HEATHER KOCSIS BY CAI SEPULIS ‘Nothing in this studio is safe,’ artist Heather Kocsis …
THE FRIENDLY SOCIETY: A NEIGHBOURHOOD GASTROPUB WITH POLISH
THE FRIENDLY SOCIETY: A NEIGHBOURHOOD GASTROPUB WITH POLISH BY CHRIS TIESSEN We follow the group ahead of us down the narrow flight …
THREE TOWNS: VENTURING OUT – INTO OUR OWN BACKYARD
FOR MANY OF US, HEADING OUT ON A WEEKEND EXCURSION SO OFTEN MEANS ONE OF TWO THINGS: EITHER ESCAPING TO THE WILDS OF COTTAGE COUNTRY OR DIVING HEADLON…
SUMMER NIGHTS’ ADVENTURING IN #DTK
PREAMBLE BY CHRIS TIESSEN Over back-to-back evenings in late June, the TOQUE team wandered into downtown Kitchener – to check out the sights, s…
THE GENERAL: A HAMILTON GEM
BY CAI SEPULIS ‘Ok. I definitely need to come back with Chris and the camera,’ I tell my wife Sonia thirty seconds into our first visit. What…
SPRING MILL DISTILLERY: BLENDING HISTORY AND MYTH
BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘A sledgehammer. A bag of corn. Two men. And six weeks.’ I turn to Cooper, raise my eyebrows, and fix my gaze upon the two m…
UPTOWN’S ‘SOLSTICE SAMPLING’: A MOST SATISFYING SCAVENGER HUNT
BY CHRIS TIESSEN ‘Why’s everyone watching me?,’ I ask TOQUE Partner Cai – nervously. My fork, loaded with rice and chicken, hovers at my mout…