Glendon College presents the second stage production to come out of its newly formed drama club, Lionheart Productions Coeur de Lion. Written by Justin Ruttan, Dark Lady: The Musical is a fantastic romp through the life of a drag performer, set to the music of Cher. More than just a theatrical glitterbomb, the story sees […]
“Ontario Can’t Afford Religious Discrimination” read the banner behind the speaker’s podium at Sunday afternoon’s Canadian Secular Alliance rally to protest public funding of Catholic schools. The costs, as a spirited roster of speakers told a quietly attentive audience outside the Ontario Legislature, are as financial as they are moral. Education Equality in Ontario president Leonard […]
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected] A teasing interior glimpse of Slant by Jennifer McGregor. Courtesy of 47. ART: Gallery 47 hosts the opening reception for […]
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected] Photo by jonathan ponce from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. PARTY: This summer, cyclists will tackle a six-day ride to Montreal […]
In April 2007, “Premier McGuinty and Ontario police chiefs announce tough new measures to combat drunk driving and street racing.” Courtesy of the Office of the Premier. We become unreasonably annoyed when bands release self-titled (non-debut) albums. With the obvious exception of Beatles-biting Weezer-style colour-coding, this approach strikes us as lazy and uncreative—at best, a […]
Maylee Todd conducts Sweatshop at The Boat, featuring Laura Barrett, Henri Faberge of the Adorables, Ken Farrell of Gravity Wave, Simon Borer of Entire Cities, Drew Smith of The Bicycles, Paul Banwatt of Woodhands, and Grace the Stage’s Steve Fisher. Photo by Joseph Fuda courtesy of Gracing the Stage. PARTY: Weekly culture mailing list Gracing […]
THEATRE: We would be remiss if we did not mention the Fringe‘s Next Stage Theatre Festival, as previewed in this past week’s inaugural Drama Club. The festival is a showcase of the eight top Fringe companies, with performances every night until January 18. The Fringe is also offering an evening double-bill of only $25 at […]
With their third album, Portland’s Decemberists continue on with their singular brand of highly literate, nautically-obsessed hybrid folk-rock. With their highbrow lyrics, unconventional arrangements and Colin Meloy’s distinctive nasal vocals, the sound of a Decemberists record is unmistakable, but Picaresque differs from the first two full-lengths in that it carries itself with a greater confidence […]
This year’s Toronto Fringe Festival was the largest to date, with 160 shows to see and daily programming (and partying) at the festival’s new club and headquarters at Scadding Court at Dundas and Bathurst streets. Navigating it all was exhilarating and exhausting, but nearly 70,000 patrons and artists did. Here’s what we observed.
This is Torontoist‘s seventh-annual feature showcasing some of the city’s best established and emerging comedic talent, and up until now, they’ve all been female-identifying. The intent has always been to shine a light on performers and creators who don’t resemble the same five white guys (or four white guys and one POC) on a stand-up […]
Some of Toronto’s most nostalgic and beloved venues have also been the grittiest, and they are disappearing. But in sanitizing the city, we may be washing away its colourful history and the people who created it.
This post originally appeared April 3, 2010. When the world is beginning to awaken to the fact that spring with all its revivifying and gladdening influences is at hand, when the earth is delivered from the bondage of the iron hand of winter, it is appropriate that paeans of praise and thanksgiving should rise from […]
Countess Grace Buchanan-Dineen, child of a prominent Rosedale family, lived a glamorous life in Detroit during the Second World War. Beautiful and cosmopolitan, she rapidly “became a social favorite,” one observer recalled, as she regaled them with anecdotes about her decade spent in Europe as the continent descended into war. Then, in late August 1943, […]
Politics and current events may have a deep impact on how our lives change, but some of our deepest year-to-year memories are those we create for ourselves, with others, seeing and doing things in our city. We looked over the past year in arts and culture to come up with this list, arranged chronologically, of […]
Classifying Toronto as the capital city of child poverty, as was done in last week’s report, Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital [PDF], is bold, but undeniably true. Judging from the way the report is written and constructed, the allegation is meant to shame government officials who claim to uphold values of equal […]
This post originally appeared on November 23, 2013. Regular readers of the “Woman’s Kingdom” page in the Saturday edition of the Mail noticed something new in the October 26, 1889, paper. Amid the usual excerpts from other publications, a new column appeared. Little did they know that the author of “Kit’s Gossip” would become a […]
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