Toronto legend Edwin "Honest Ed" Mirvish has died. He was 92. The philanthropic businessman was a crucial part of Toronto's reputation as a world-renowned theatre centre, and had been mostly out of the public eye after contracting a severe case of pneumonia in 2003 and experiencing deteriorating health ever since. Mirvish died at St. Michael's Hospital at 1:30 a.m. Mirvish was born in Virginia on July 25, 1914 to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. His introduction to......

Last night's star-studded 17th Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Awards brought prestigious wins for local play 'Da Kink In My Hair and playwright trey anthony. The play started as a one-woman Fringe Festival production and enjoyed multiple sold-out runs in Toronto until expanded by the Mirvishes at the Princess of Wales Theatre last year. Set in a West Indian hair salon on Eglinton Avenue, the production involves the stories of multiple women who pass through......

Just as the best place and time one can panhandle in Toronto is outside the Princess of Wales Theatre when the show letting out is Les Misérables, there are likely few more effective or appropriate locations to stage a union protest than outside a movie theatre screening a certain film about agitated simians/urban revolutionaries targeted squarely at a hip, leftist audience consisting primarily of agitated simians/urban revolutionaries. Anyone ambling along College Street between Clinton......