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Your Urban Lifestyle Guide

Fish out those white jeans from your closet, grab your party shades and put on your dancing shoes. The world’s most renowned electronic music event is finally coming to Canada. Set for June 1, ‘Bud Light presents: Sensation’ will debut in Toronto at the Rogers Centre for 30,000 Canadian partygoers. With over 20 countries under its belt, Sensation has travelled the globe for almost a decade.
If you don’t think true love exists, a visit to Stella Luna Gelato Café will make any non-believer change their mind. On the surface, Stella Luna serves up the best gelato in the city. However, behind the popular café is the love story of a lifetime. Tammy Giuliani was just 19 years-old when she decided to travel to Italy.
Bummed you couldn’t get your hands on ‘Tomorrowland’ tickets? Don’t worry, you aren’t the only one. When ‘Tomorrowland’s ticket site opened last month, two million people fought for 180,000 tickets. Tickets for the world’s biggest music festival in Belgium were gone in under a minute. So what do I have to say to the hundreds of thousands of disappointed ravers and ‘Tomorrowland’ hopefuls?
Hyped & Ready to Conquer The music industry today is not the same as previous generations. Artists are discovered fast. Fan bases develop early and grow internationally at the same rate a town would’ve once learned of a band playing in a garage down the street. Social media and the unfathomable number of music blogs have made the competition fierce for acclaim and success, but also allows the strongest to survive and proposer at a quickened pace.
One of the most eccentric characters in the electronic music scene, Dillon Francis, embarks on his ‘Wurld Turr’ of North America this month. With a stop in Ottawa on Friday March 29th at Barrymores Music Hall, Canadians will be in for a show with no boundaries. “I plan on throwing tacos out into the crowd every night,” forewarns Francis.
The quintessential New York aura that attracts visitors from around the world is not an easy thing to capture. Themed restaurants from coast to coast long to imitate the incomparable coolness, easy going, yet electric thrill that emanates from a true New York venue, like the inimitable Brooklyn Bowl. New York City is known as the awe-evoking city that never sleeps because there is simply so much to see and do.