今年四月，多伦多人正在观看、阅读和收听的节目是多么引人注目啊
caroline Mackenzie, Tynomi Banks, Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe和Emmanuel Jal的流行文化推荐
小斧
电影导演Charles Officer推荐
“我最近看到小斧,由导演史蒂夫·麦奎因创作的选集系列，讲述了1969年至1982年间在伦敦西印度社区散居的黑人的故事。该系列是一部毫无歉意的杰作，花了10年时间才完成。我的家族根源是加勒比海和英国，在加拿大拍这样的电影对我来说很重要。”
巴比什烹饪宇宙
音乐家renforshort推荐
“我在YouTube上看了很多天才Andrew Rea和Sohla El-Waylly的视频。它们让我想进厨房。他们给了我灵感，让我尝试东亚和墨西哥菜，比如素食鸡蛋面、简单的肉汤和美味的素食卷饼。”
的小屋
主持人卡罗琳·麦肯齐推荐早间秀
“在去年11月突然失去一位密友之后，这部电影给了我一些急需的安慰。它是根据威廉·p·杨(William P. Young)的一本书改编的，我几年前读过这本书，讲的是一个男人在一次露营事故中失去女儿后面对悲伤的故事。我也喜欢奥克塔维亚·斯宾塞出演的任何电影，所以她扮演的上帝是完美的。”
无题(Black Is)通过瀑布
主持人Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe推荐块
“音乐是我的一切。有一个乐队，我觉得我有点晚了，那就是相当神秘的英国组合Sault。在过去的两年里，他们已经发行了四张专辑，他们的音乐是卓越的，令人惊叹的美丽和体裁的挑战。我特别喜欢他们第三张专辑中的《野火》，无题(黑色是)，这是关于警察的暴行和对黑人生命的持续攻击。”
控制
由Tynomi Banks推荐，变装皇后
“我痴迷于电子游戏。控制故事发生在一个被外星威胁入侵的美国政府秘密机构。游戏的目标是跟随该机构的主任，因为她试图重新控制大楼。我通过穿过每个房间和摧毁外星人来消除我的新冠病毒攻击。”
荷兰之家安·帕切特
作家香泰尔·格廷推荐
“疫情开始时，我买了一个Fitbit和一只小狗，在我遛狗的时候听有声书是完美的选择，我每天都要走1.5万步。”这部小说是一个黑暗童话般的故事，讲述了五十年来两个兄弟姐妹的故事，但真正吸引人的是汤姆汉克斯的叙述。他的声音就像被裹在舒适的毯子里。”
打开我们
音乐家朱莉·内夫推荐
“这是艰难的一年，世界上有很多冲突，所以我尽可能多地听布朗的歌。她有社会工作的博士学位，有一种将事情置于情境中的方式，帮助我度过了过去一年里一些具有挑战性的对话。这就像同时得到了一个温暖的拥抱和一些重要的生活指导。”
混合饮料
音乐家ehoni推荐
“在疫情期间，我成了相当不错的调酒师。我在这个Pinterest页面上寻找有趣的食谱，并在家里自制鸡尾酒——从简单的玛格丽塔鸡尾酒到爱尔兰国旗鸡尾酒，再加上层层叠叠的橙色和白色利口酒和绿色的薄荷酒。拿着鸡尾酒，我晚上看90年代末和21世纪初的电视剧，比如《女朋友》和《游戏》。”
比吉斯乐队:如何修补一颗破碎的心
由托马斯·达西推荐，制作人和音乐家，小罪
比吉斯乐队不仅为自己写了几十首金曲，还为芭芭拉·史翠珊和戴安娜·罗斯等众多成功的艺术家写了很多金曲。然而，不知何故，你可以感觉到他们的不安全感，甚至在这部纪录片中有一丝绝望。这让你更喜欢他们，而不是他们是所谓的酷家伙。自从看了这部纪录片后，我发现自己掉进了他们大量目录的兔子洞里。”
失踪411:追捕
作家安德鲁·派珀推荐
“我很喜欢那些与超自然现象相结合的纪录片，而这部电影是这种奇怪的亚类型中一个特别令人满意的例子。它讲述了多个猎人在北美不同的森林里消失得无影无踪的故事。调查员大卫·保利德斯提出了一个令人信服的案例，表明那里正在发生一些非常奇怪的事情。”
授粉的艺术马丁·弗拉纳根
音乐家Emmanuel Jal推荐
“这本书是关于慈善事业巨头简·图森的，我很高兴和她合作过几次。当她提出Comic Relief的想法时，她彻底改变了筹款的艺术，该组织已经在英国筹集了数十亿美元的援助资金，她现在在澳大利亚经营着一家名为“点燃变革”的小型慈善机构。
幸福方程式Neil Pasricha著
作者:Celina Caesar-Chavannes，作家，惠特比前国会议员
“在疫情开始时，我向家人介绍了这本关于创造满足感的书。尼尔的爸爸住在惠特比，他在我竞选公职时给了我这本书。它消除了2020年的一些沉重，让我们意识到我们在一起已经中了彩票。”
喧嚣
作者:Marissa Stapley
“我喜欢关于骗子、骗子和骗子的书籍、电影和电视节目——看他们工作是如此美妙的娱乐。喧嚣、该剧于今年8月在BBC首次播出(现在可以在YouTube上观看)，是一部英国犯罪剧，讲述了一群有道德准则的骗子:他们的分数总是值得被骗的。一共有八季，每一集都是一个令人满意的长骗局，几乎总是有意想不到的转折。”
和尚
作家S.K. Ali推荐
”和尚是一部由托尼·沙尔霍布主演的悬疑剧，具有21世纪初电视剧的所有舒适特征，其中有不要太认真的玩笑和非常明显的线索，可以看出发生了什么。它的可预测性让人感到欣慰。而且，艾德里安·蒙克的细菌恐惧症——在当时被视为一种性格特征——现在也说得通了。在某些方面，我们都必须变得像和尚一样。”
感觉很好
作家菲奥娜·金·福斯特推荐
“我刚刚看完这部由多伦多出生的单口相声演员梅·马丁主演的英国喜剧。这是一个有趣的爱情故事，用人性和智慧解决了成瘾和心理健康等棘手的问题。马丁散发出一种永不停歇的能量，让这部剧以一种令人愉快的速度向前发展。而感觉很好它进入了一些黑暗的地方，最终实现了它的名字。”
燃烧的作者:Megha Majumdar
主持人埃罗尔·拿撒勒推荐频率
“我的根在印度，我一直在寻找南亚侨民的新人才。在过去的几年里，我发现了几位了不起的作家，比如法蒂玛·布托、玛多丽·维贾伊和法蒂玛·法欣·米尔扎。我正在如火如荼地阅读梅加·马宗达尔(Megha Majumdar)的处女作，故事发生在印度民族主义可怕崛起的加尔各答。这是一部扣人心弦的惊悚片，讲述了三个令人难忘的人物的故事，其中一个在Facebook上发表了关于恐怖袭击的煽动性言论，他们的生活因此交织在一起。”
本周病毒学
大卫·戈德布卢姆推荐，作家和高级医学顾问，成瘾和心理健康中心
“谁会想到一个关于病毒学的播客会如此引人注目?”这个节目由Vincent Racaniello主持，从2008年开始播出，主要内容是知识渊博的科学家之间的热烈讨论。自Covid以来，他们已经解决了从每周前线更新到刺突蛋白问题的所有问题，这非常引人入胜。”
 by Sault
Recommended by Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe, host, The Block
“Music is my everything. One band that I feel like I’m late to the game on is the rather mysterious U.K. collective called Sault. They’ve dropped four albums over the past two years, and the music is transcendent, stunningly beautiful and genre-defying. I particularly like ‘Wildfires’ on their third album, Untitled (Black Is), which is about police brutality and its continued assault on Black lives.”
Control
Recommended by Tynomi Banks, drag queen
“I am obsessed with video games. Control is set at a secret U.S. government agency that’s invaded by an extraterrestrial threat. The goal of the game is to follow the director of the agency as she tries to regain control of the building. I get my Covid aggressions out by working my way through each room and destroying aliens.”
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Recommended by Chantel Guertin, writer
“I got a Fitbit and a puppy at the start of the pandemic—and audiobooks are perfect to listen to while I walk my dog and attempt to reach 15,000 steps daily. This novel is a dark fairytale-like story about two siblings set over five decades, but the real draw is Tom Hanks’s narration. His voice is like being wrapped in a cozy blanket by a fire.”
Unlocking Us
Recommended by Julie Neff, musician
“It’s been a difficult year with a lot of conflict in the world, so I’ve been listening to as much Brené Brown as I can. She has a PhD in social work and a way of contextualizing things that has helped me navigate some challenging conversations I’ve had this past year. It’s like getting a warm hug and some major life guidance at the same time.”
Mix That Drink
Recommended by Ebhoni, musician
“I’ve become quite the bartender during the pandemic. I source fun recipes on this Pinterest page and recreate cocktails at home—everything from an easy margarita to an Irish Flag, with layers of orange and white liqueurs and green crème de menthe. With cocktails in hand, I pass my evenings watching shows from the late ’90s and early 2000s like Girlfriends and The Game.”
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Recommended by Thomas D’Arcy, producer and musician, Small Sins
“The Bee Gees wrote dozens of hits not only for themselves, but also for a ton of other successful artists like Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross. Yet, somehow, you can sense their insecurity and even a hint of desperation in this documentary. It makes you like them more than if they were quote-unquote cool dudes. I’ve found myself falling down the rabbit hole of their extensive catalogue ever since watching the doc.”
Missing 411: The Hunted
Recommended by Andrew Pyper, writer
“I’m a sucker for documentary mysteries that sidle up to the supernatural, and this is a particularly satisfying example of that weird subgenre. It follows the stories of multiple hunters who’ve gone missing without a trace in various North American woods. Investigator David Paulides presents a convincing case that something deeply strange is happening out there.”
The Art of Pollination by Martin Flanagan
Recommended by Emmanuel Jal, musician
“This book is about the charity powerhouse Jane Tewson, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with a few times. She revolutionized the art of fundraising when she had the idea for Comic Relief, which has raised billions of dollars for aid in the U.K., and she now runs a small charity called Igniting Change in Australia.”
The Happiness Equation by Neil Pasricha
Recommended by Celina Caesar-Chavannes, writer and former MP for Whitby
“At the beginning of the pandemic, I introduced this book about creating contentment to my family. Neil’s dad lives in Whitby, and he gave me the book when I was in elected office. It cut through some of the heaviness of 2020, and made us realize that we’d already won the lottery by being together.”
Hustle
Recommended by Marissa Stapley, writer
“I love books, movies and television shows about grifters, con artists and hustlers—watching them work is so deliciously entertaining. Hustle, which first aired on the BBC in the aughts (now available to stream on YouTube), is a British crime drama about a team of con artists with a moral code: their marks always deserve to be swindled. There are eight seasons, and each episode delivers a satisfying long con, almost always with an unexpected twist.”
Monk
Recommended by S.K. Ali, writer
“Monk is a mystery series starring Tony Shalhoub that has all the cozy hallmarks of early-2000s TV, with don’t-take-yourself-too-seriously banter and the very obvious cues as to what’s going on. There’s comfort in its predictability. Also, Adrian Monk’s germophobia—treated as a character tic back then—makes so much sense now. We’ve all had to become Monk-like in some ways.”
Feel Good
Recommended by Fiona King Foster, writer
“I just finished this British comedy drama starring Toronto-born stand-up comedian Mae Martin. It’s a funny love story that tackles tough subjects—like addiction and mental health—with humanity and wit. Martin radiates a restless energy that keeps the show racing along at a bingeable pace. While Feel Good gets into some dark places, it ultimately delivers on its name.”
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Recommended by Errol Nazareth, host, Frequencies
“My roots are in India, and I’m always looking out for new talent from the South Asian diaspora. Over the last few years, I’ve discovered several incredible writers, like Fatima Bhutto, Madhuri Vijay and Fatima Farheen Mirza. I’m currently burning through Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, set in Kolkata amid the terrifying rise of Hindu nationalism. It’s a gripping thriller that follows three unforgettable characters whose lives become entwined after one of them makes an inflammatory Facebook comment about a terrorist attack.”
This Week in Virology
Recommended by David Goldbloom, writer and senior medical advisor, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
“Who would have thought that a podcast about virology would be so compelling? Hosted by Vincent Racaniello, this show has been running since 2008 and features enthusiastic discussions between deeply knowledgable scientists. Since Covid, they’ve tackled everything from weekly front-line updates to the problem with spike proteins, and it’s pretty gripping.”
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