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Of a Monstrous Child is Caught in a Complex Romance with Lady Gaga

Carly Maga — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:29 +0000

Alistair Newton's new play dives into the history of performance art to explain our cultural fascination with the House of Gaga.

Despite the fact that the last show in Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 2012/2013 season is titled Of a Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical, Lady Gaga herself takes a secondary role. There are no homages to raw-meat dresses and gold-plated wheelchairs here. Instead, writer and director Alistair Newton uses the House of Gaga as a pathway into the history of the notable performance-art stars that came before her in the pantheon of queer iconography, and how she is and isn’t a construct of all of them put together.

Twin Showcases at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Herald Student Filmmakers

Kevin Scott — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:46 +0000

TIFF presents a night of films by directors who are still in high school or university.

It’s entirely possible that an early work by the next Atom Egoyan or David Cronenberg will screen on Wednesday night at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. With the 2013 Student Film Showcase featuring the best from post-secondary schools around the country and the Jump Cuts Young Filmmakers Showcase kicking off the evening with Toronto-area high-school students’ films, the night will be a coming-out party for a new crop of talent. Judging by the polished creativity of some of the entries, it’s safe to say that young people are more prepared than ever to start telling stories on film from an early age.

New Street Furniture, New Tainted Tomatoes, New Hitting Coach For The Mariners

Christopher Bird — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0000

At an event yesterday to show off Toronto’s new street furniture, David Miller praised the exclusive deal with Astral Media. The contract includes a measly 1,000 new bicycle posts, because God knows we don’t want to encourage cycling in downtown Toronto. The contract also includes new public toilet installations which are billed as being “self-cleaning,” to which Torontoist can only issue a collective “shyeeeeah, right.”
Oil prices dropped slightly yesterday, but nobody thinks it’s going to stick. Mostly because it turns out everybody wants oil, and not everybody can get oil. Torontoist has a couple of barrels of light, sweet crude in the basement that it is holding on to for a rainy day. Someday, that oil’s gonna get us power. And then we get the women.
Canadian restaurants pulled raw tomatoes off their menus in response to an outbreak of salmonella in tainted Roma tomatoes in the United States. Salmonella is traditionally transmitted to humans by eating food contaminated with animal feces, so think about that the next time you want some ripe red tomatoes, and then think about what they might have been sitting in.
The Liberal party’s abstention allowed bill C-50 to pass. The controversial immigration reform bill is just the latest round of everybody’s favorite game, How Chickenshit Is Stéphane Dion?
Finally, the Jays lost a squeaker to the Mariners in extra innings last night. The Mariners fired their hitting coach right before the game, so it looks like that worked out well.
(And for the record, Metzger, my lambada was exquisite.)
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