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Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo – Feb 10/11, 2017 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 25, 2017

by: in Events, Featured Events, Theatre, Toronto

The Boys Are Back in Town! Five years to the exact day of their last appearance in Toronto, the internationally acclaimed all-male comic ballet company, LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO returns to Toronto with their breathtaking blend of technical prowess, athletic artistry and perfect parody. For this Toronto engagement, THE TROCKS repertoire will include one […]

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“Passing Stranger” – Until February 5, 2017 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 25, 2017

by: in Events, Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

Passing Strange is a bold coming of age story told through sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. In the late 1970s, a black teen is driven from Los Angeles to Amsterdam and Berlin in search of himself and a place to call home. Fusing punk rock, R&B and soul, and performed at Toronto’s preeminent music […]

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“Carrie: The Musical” on stage Jan 20 to Feb 4, 2017 (Toronto)

posted Friday, January 20, 2017

by: in Events, Featured Events, Theatre, Toronto

Opening January 20, Hart House Theatre presents a musical based on Stephen King’s well-known revenge thriller novel, Carrie: the musical is directed by Toronto theatre icon, Richard Ouzounian, and stars a cast of young performers.   Tormented at school by the ‘cool’ kids, and smothered at home by her religious zealot mother, Carrie is a true outcast. […]

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Club Kid, Superstar DJ Keoki, Arrested and Under Investigation

posted Thursday, January 19, 2017

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Drag, Events, Fashion, Featured Events, Film, New York City, Queer, Toronto

It was reported on January 12th that Superstar DJ Keoki has been arrested for drug possession stemming from an incident where NBC producer Thomas Felty was found dead a few weeks back in a New York City apartment. Keoki is still reportedly in jail, and while friend Patrick Walsh was also charged with the same […]

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“Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” held over until Feb 10 at the AGO (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, January 17, 2017

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Using two retrospectives at LA’s Getty and LACMA museums as a backdrop, this definitive portrait profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in New York City and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. The only thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life. […]

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“Love is a Drag” – Man-to-Man Love Songs (1962)

posted Friday, January 13, 2017

by: in Activism, Art, Bar/Club, Celebrity, Drag, Music, Pride, Queer

A once shocking 1962 LP of love songs… by men, for men. A long lost treasure featuring the cool & sophisticated vocals of Gene Howard and a cast of prime studio jazz musicians, performing a set of standards sung to a male suitor. Ahead of its time in every way. Reissued for the first time […]

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Christeene at Toronto’s Black Eagle – Saturday January 14, 2017

posted Thursday, January 12, 2017

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto

Christeene is a human pissoir of raw unabashed sexuality; a gender-blending, booty-pounding, perversion of punk fully equipped with an arsenal of ferocious music intertwined with raw moments of strained intimacy and fiery stank. Reports from live shows describe Christeene appearing alongside two sexually distinct ‘Backup Boyz’, macabre scenes involving butt plugs tied to bouquets of […]

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“Workin’ Moms” premiering January 10th, 2017 on CBC

posted Monday, January 9, 2017

by: in Celebrity, Comedy, Film, Lesbian, Montreal, Toronto

The CBC has been doing quite well recently with their comedy series. First “Schitt’s Creek” took off a couple years back and will be heading into its third season later this month, then “Kim’s Convenience” debuted earlier this year and already has been confirmed for a second season. Now there’s a new kid on the […]

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Toronto’s Storefront Theatre to close January 2017

posted Tuesday, January 3, 2017

by: in Art, Theatre, Toronto

On January 31st the Storefront Theatre will be closing the doors to its flagship location at 955 Bloor Street West. After four years of protracted negotiations with the owners of the 955 Bloor location regarding a long term lease for The Storefront Theatre, the company is being asked to leave the location in order for […]

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Lower Ossington Theatre – Holiday Show Reviews

posted Saturday, December 17, 2016

by: in Events, Featured Events, Theatre, Toronto

The Lower Ossington Theatre has been producing some unique one-of-a-kind shows for the past several years, long before “The Ossington Strip” became gentrified and glorified. This theatre house is one of the mainstays of culture, along with the awesome Sweaty Betty’s, on this otherwise strand of bland. Beyond my cynicism, there are actually a few half-decent spots that […]

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