Meet Clever

Pizza della Pistola is Toronto's newest pizzeria, and its loveable, no-nonsense, gun-wielding owner is EVERYTHING. Located on the corner of Dufferin and St. Clair in Toronto's Corso Italia neighbourhood, Pizza della Pistola is making big waves in the GTA food scene. Head chef and owner Luigi Sambicci has his roots in Naples, Italy, a city that many argue is the birthplace of pizza as we know it today. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels But Sambicci's traditional past aside, there's nothing traditional about the way he sticks a gun in your face the second you step through the front door. "Get the fuck outta my goddamn house," says Sambicci. "I didn't invite you here, so get the hell out, and take your microphone with you." Sambicci's specialty dish is his Margarita pizza, consisting of his top-secret dough, buffalo mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and just the right amount of tomato sauce. It's a delicious and tantaliz...

Connor Glib, who has spent the last thirteen years of his life trapped in a spider box on one of the original sets of Fear Factor , told reporters Thursday that he has no regrets. A contestant on the fifth season of the show, Glib says he was one of many people who were chosen to go into the spider box on that fateful afternoon in 2005. The difference, however, was that the producers made a last minute decision to cut Glib from the show. Photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels "He was a little intense," says Lauren Chang, key grip for Fear Factor between 2001 and 2006. "He wasn't really what we were looking for. And I guess we just all forgot about him. We had to shoot an outdoor scene later that day with, like, deer uteruses or skunk anuses or something. Obviously Joe was pretty excited about that. And we just left, I guess. It was our last day in that particular studio too." Though he has wasted a considerable portion of his life trapped in the fetal pos...

29-year-old University of Calgary professor Kyle Schmidt, who just last year earned his PhD in English literature from UBC, says that while he loves his job, he is always careful not to inspire his students too much. "I mostly teach first year English classes," Schmidt says. "So I understand that my students are at a very impressionable stage in their lives. That's why I have to be careful not to get them too excited about literature, you know, careful not to give them any ideas." Schmidt says that while he feels that English is an important part of any post-secondary education, he would never encourage any of his students to pursue it past second year. "It would really kill me if it turned out I were the reason that one of my fresh-faced, intelligent students decided to major in English," Schmidt says. "Like all teachers, I have to work hard to keep my students engaged, which isn't always easy when we're constantly reading Shakesp...

Why am I at the food court in Four Hills mall at eleven o’clock a.m.?   Don’t you worry about it. Just keep walking, mister. This doesn’t concern you. I got business, important things to attend to. Don’t look at that. That’s all part of it, don’t you worry. Yeah, I still use manilla envelopes. Call me old fashioned, but you can’t hack into a manilla envelope, no matter how hard you try. Just try. Things of such high importance, of such high calibre, can’t be trusted to sit on a hard drive, vulnerable, weak, exposed, raw as flesh. No. Avert your eyes. Take a step back. Or two. Better yet, skedaddle. Don’t get yourself involved in this. It’ll only come back to bite you. Get out while you can. Go for a walk. Get yourself a coffee. Get out of here, far away. The sooner the better. It’s for your own good, don’t you know. Serious. He’ll be here soon, so take a hike, capisce? It takes a special quality, a certain character, to navigate such murky affairs as those I wade throu...