ArtStars* 31 - Ex-stripper Christian Aldo is a big talker with bigger plans (and swears like a sailor)—the painter, sculptor, and figurine-maker, who is the subject of a NFB doc series and moved to Toronto in November, is starting an avant-garde nudie magazine, filming an elaborate sci-fi short film, and launching a new art gallery in a Roncesvalles shoe store. Team Art Stars* dropped by his house party to learn that hes doing a secret series of guerrilla cardboard spaceships on west-end rooftops in the coming months. You heard it here first. *snap*

What happens when ArtStars* host Nadja Sayej in a Snuggie! takes on an artist who disses the media? We hit up Double Take at MKG 127 on Jan. 9 for an artspeak-meets-newspeak interview disaster with Kriistina Lahde. This is the first in a series of The Three Worst Episodes, a series ArtStars* is showing at Peak Gallery until Feb. 27.

This is what happens when ArtStars* pushes things too far.

Our very first party happened January 27, 2010 at Double Double Land. Thanks to all those that made it out!
Photos by Carl W. Heindl: http://www.eroder.com

Bruce LaBruce! First interview! Never-seen-before stills! Score. LaBruce chills out for a second from a photo shoot with Miguel Jacob in Toronto to chat about his new alien zombie flick, L.A.Zombie -- on a white leather couch.

ArtStars* takes a vacation to Queen and Bathurst for Alternative Fashion Television circa 1996.

David Waldman -- Kid With Camera -- may be Toronto's foremost music photographer, but at his opening on Dec. 4, 2009 at Whippersnapper Gallery, we learn he is a bit of a rock star himself.

Ellsworth Kelly might be rolling over in his grave -- that is, if he isn't into Green Day. Wait, he's not dead yet.

Two spring chickens meet two art dinosaurs for a group show in Toronto at the Clint Roenisch Gallery on November 25, 2009, only to learn that opposites do attract, even if only for a fortnight -- and the results?

A cloud of smoke.

ArtStars* exposes the Art Fag -- but is it really him? You decide.

Americans? Apologize? Sneak into their back room secret party and watch Wham City, a Baltimore-based art collective, play Canadian.

Five abandoned bungalows, 23 artists, one boring academic - a hell of a time. Oct. 31, 2009, Toronto.

Joseph Drapell was ousted by the Toronto art scene when he first arrived from Prague in the late 1970s -- and has since founded his own museum in a Queen West alleyway. An art scene outsider with an insider's perspective.

Before heading out to Toronto's Nuit Blanche, we visit former art critic RM Vaughan for a psychic reading, which includes running into drunk assholes at 3 a.m. That, and Jeff Koons. But can they pull it off?

TORONTO - Isn't it time we get critical of the critics? AA Bronson tells it like it is (gasp!). Watch the AFTERSHOW of the Art Gallery of York University General Idea opening, Sept. 15, 2009... for the real scoop.

Attention all shoppers... Massive Sale @ YYZ Mall is an art mall by artists Daniel Borins + Jennifer Marman at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto, Sept. 11, 2009. But what happens when a fight breaks out at their opening? We go Jerry Springer.

Rev up your race car engines! ArtStars* whizzes through the Drake Hotel as the hosts of a recent Quick Fix party on Sept. 10, 2009. Wait a second. We're not that cool.

We check out the launch of the latest issue of Bad Day Magazine and learn about why it might be a bad idea to print your mom's face on a bath towel.

HOLLA! ArtStars* TV host Nadja Sayej tracks down infamous Toronto artist Pascal Paquette after his tres-controversial art show at Le Labo for some meaty intellectual art discussion. Get ready for our deepest show ever! June 2009.

When a milk crate and metal rod sit in the middle of the floor, some think its art -- and others walk into it. July 30, 2009. Diaz Contemporary. Toronto, Canada.

Vice magazine show featuring Dana Goldstein and Jamie Taete at Lennox Contemporary in Toronto, July 23, 2009.

ArtStars* ventures into the heart of darkness to uncover Extermination Music Night, July 17, 2009.

ArtStars* host Nadja Sayej talks to - tries to - talk to Jon Sasaki at his opening on July 8, 2009 at Red Bull Projects but one thing stands in the way: The bar.