Vinay Menon, TorontoStar

Vinay Menon

TorontoStar

Toronto, ON, Canada

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Past:
  • TorontoStar
  • The Standard
  • Hamilton Spectator
  • WR Record
  • PeterboroughExaminer

Past articles by Vinay:

Despite the spider invasion, the mosquito war, the leaky tent, camping bonded my future wife and I

Something magical happened that weekend on our crash course in the great outdoors: we bonded in a way that was close to impossible at school or the mall. → Read More

By challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage match, Elon Musk has tweeted off more than he can chew

Let’s try to imagine this hypothetical fight. Musk enters in blue trunks, Zuck enters in a Meta Quest VR headset and Joe Rogan calls the action. → Read More

Summer’s war on taste buds has officially begun. First up? Ketchup cotton candy

Winter is the best grazing season. The cold helps our stomachs see straight. The hot makes us susceptible to culinary crimes against humanity. → Read More

Drake is going on summer tour and saying farewell to Toronto like he’s going off to war

Drake posted a treacly farewell to Toronto as he starts his tour. Is his hometown love getting clingy? He’s going to Memphis, not Mars. → Read More

Chris Licht is out at CNN. Here’s why no tears will be shed

The head honcho’s head has rolled, after months of blunders, including that infamous Donald Trump Town Hall and a devastating magazine profile. → Read More

Forget Ozempic: Man says he lost more than 50 pounds by eating McDonald’s for 100 days

Health gurus who should be freaked out. How are you going to persuade a client to embrace Paleolithic or Volumetrics when delicious Sausage ’N Egg McMuffins are a half-block away? → Read More

The QAnon Shaman is free, but his remorse for the Jan. 6 riot may still be behind bars

Jacob Chansley is back to amplifying conspiracies. Truth would be a nightmare for his bottom line. → Read More

Winnie-the-Pooh teaches kids about gun violence — while grown-ups stick their heads in a jar of honey

Is this really the best our neighbours can do to keep their kids safe? There are now more firearms in America than people and more mass shootings than days in the year. → Read More

The Anarchist, Toronto’s anti-capitalist cafe, is closing after getting scalded by capitalism

The Anarchist was never a café. It was a haughty exercise in vanity and hubris. Its closure proves that anti-capitalist capitalism is an oxymoron. → Read More

After smearing George Soros, Elon Musk is now a ventriloquist dummy in the lap of Marjorie Taylor Greene

What a waste of a gigantic brain. The dumbest genius alive is coming across as a raving hypocrite with the media literacy of a North Korean tween. → Read More

Martha Stewart’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover gives a middle finger to ageism

The most remarkable part of her cover gig is not that Stewart is older than Joe Biden — it’s her attitude toward getting older. → Read More

Taylor Swift, a secret author? That’s an old rumour. We heard she’s coming to the Star

If Taylor Swift fans can catapult an unknown book into bestseller territory in an economic downturn, there is hope for all of us who write. → Read More

CNN giving Donald Trump a town hall is a nightmare for journalism

It’s a slap in the face to every CNN journalist who documented the ex-president’s grifts, incompetence, malevolence, mendacity and violation of all norms and decency. → Read More

Smarten up, Hollywood — stop treating writers like second-class citizens

If Robert Downey Jr. can land $20 mil for a role, the people who crafted his lines should not be forced to contemplate side hustles at Skip the Dishes. → Read More

Gordon Lightfoot was our most enduring and endearing genius

Canada didn’t just lose a troubadour who helped score the soundtrack to our lives. Canada lost a bit of Canada this week. → Read More

China’s new robot lips are the kiss of death for human relationships

We keep hearing marriage rates are tumbling and digital dating is a treacherous psychodrama. To continue our species we should encourage more human-to-human contact. → Read More

Mattel is bringing Barney back and is the world not miserable enough?

Barney is not a character. Barney is an abomination. Why traumatize a new generation of parents? → Read More

China’s new squirrel cops are making Canada’s wild animals seem like lazy bums

When it comes to animals and law and order, we’ve never managed to bark past K9. But if China’s squirrels are now fighting crime, surely our raccoons can step up. → Read More

Ben Affleck’s sad Grammys face is not a joke — it’s an inspiration

We shouldn’t be mocking Ben Affleck’s face at the Grammys. We should be celebrating its gloomy authenticity. → Read More

Julia Fox’s absolute dump of an apartment is a balm for my soul

The actor and model is no longer in the running for “The Best Celebrity Homes of All Time” after showing off her crib on TikTok. It’s possible she may end up on a future episode of “Hoarders.” → Read More