The Normal Heart Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander Street) October 14 to November 6 Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. $35 (PWYC Sundays) There was a moment during a climactic scene between Jonathan Wilson and Jeff Miller at the opening performance of the Studio 180 production of [...]

Scotiabank AIDS Walk For Life Church Street Public School (83 Alexander Street) Sunday, September 25, 11 a.m. On Sunday, an estimated 5,000 people will participate in the Scotiabank AIDS Walk For Life to raise both awareness about HIV/AIDS and funds for the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT). Over 40 communities in Canada will have their [...]

Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova/Torontoist. The International AIDS Conference in Austria two weeks ago served as a reminder that a vaccine for HIV remains in desperate demand across the globe. Yet a new research paper by University of Toronto professor Peter A. Newman and graduate student Carmen Logie says that even if a perfectly effective vaccine [...]

Photo by Robert S. Donovan. When was the last time you heard about Africa’s development troubles? Not too long before the global economic disaster hit, the issue had finally permeated the mainstream media, which increased aid to the continent; since then, wealthy nations and the Western media have re-focused on their own problems. But it [...]

One day Pamela Anderson stood in the centre turn lane of a highway, clad only in a Canadian flag…picturing it? Welcome to the lead photo for the “Best of Canada” edition of SNAP!. Now in its seventh year, SNAP! combines a juried competition for established and emerging photographers with a gala fundraiser on March 2 [...]

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we’ve either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and [...]

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we’ve either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and [...]

The Hidden Cameras are back home, and we are all better off for it. As we mentioned in this week’s music listings, the Cameras––they of the Mississauga-bred now world-famous exuberant gay pop fame––are playing an AIDS benefit concert this Thursday night at the Great Hall in Hart House (7 Hart House Circle), with proceeds going [...]

It’s funny that we mentioned The Rocky Horror Picture Show in our introduction last week, because it’s showing tonight at 11:30 p.m. at the Bloor. It’s been a while, in our memory, since the last time it showed, which would imply that the fans in Toronto aren’t as rabid as elsewhere, but we’d still recommend [...]

The half-wit OCAD student who planted a fake bomb at the ROM on Wednesday has turned himself in to police and been charged with mischief and common nuisance. Ha, closing a major thoroughfare, wasting the time of hundreds of police and emergency service personnel, and forcing the cancellation of an AIDS gala—what a lovable scamp. The death rates at Canadian Hospitals have now been made public in a report from the Canadian Institute for...