When Coach House Books launched uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto last year we were absolutely, positively thrilled. The book brought together a group of people in love with the city and its potential. A year later, we're just days away from the launch of the State of the Arts, the sequel to that fine volume. With many of the same contributors as the first volume, we know that Coach House will pull off a fine......

Are you tired of hearing about the adventures of Frodo and Gyllenhaal? A change of pace is yours today, by way of the Coach House Books 40th anniversary reading and 'virtual tour' at Harbourfront. Authors include Karen Hines, Andrew Kaufman, Anne Michaels, Darren O’Donnell, Michael Ondaatje and others. Don't tell the movie stars.......

We'd like to box the Rivoli for their anti-peanut allergy stance, but tonight a couple of writers do the boxing for us, by way of The Box Salon. Golda Fried will read from her newly thatched and hatched Coach House press title. And Claudia Dey, Paige Gratland, Karen Hines, and Greg Hollingshead will also be on hand to read, and eat things that may or may not contain peanuts, but even if they do not......

When the federal government nixed tobacco sponsorship in 2003, it was almost curtains for Harbourfront Centre’s cancer-stick-addicted World Stage international theatre festival. But then new artistic director Tina Rasmussen came on board and figured out a way to cut costs: Turn World Stage into a solo performance extravaganza. World Stage: Flying Solo opened last night with Rosebud, a play about Orson Welles, and A Mobile Thriller, a play that takes place in an actual car......