Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Rumours” album performed live and intimate – February 4 to 25 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 17, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

Coal Mine Theatre presents their first ever Coal Mine Concert, the world premiere of RUMOURS by Fleetwood Mac, February 4-25, 2018 at the intimate Coal Mine Theatre. Ted Dykstra, Coal Mine Co-Chief Engineer and RUMOURS creative guide, has assembled a local group of musicians to play the album live in order from start to finish. “Two years-ago I was driving around […]

Come Up To My Room – January 18 to 21, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, January 15, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Music, Queer, Toronto

Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition. Each year CUTMR provides artists and designers the opportunity to take risks, to push their ideas, to evoke meaning not just function. CUTMR 2018 explores how people interact with art and design. Is it a shared experience mediated by an artist or designer? Or […]

Night of Ideas: To Sleep or Not To Sleep – January 25th, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, January 15, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Events, Featured Events, Film, Toronto

In partnership with the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Canada and Hart House, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto is thrilled to present Night of Ideas: To Sleep or Not to Sleep on Thursday, January 25, from 7 pm to 7 am. The Art Museum is one of the first Canadian institutions […]

Taraji P. Henson deserves better than Sony’s alleged treatment of “Proud Mary”

posted Saturday, January 13, 2018

by: Joey Viola in Art, Celebrity, Entertaining, Film

Winter is a busy time at the movies: plenty of holiday movie mega-hits and Award-nominated films are still playing and continue to steadily sell tickets (like The Shape of Water and Star Wars: The Last Jedi), but films released in January are expected to pave the way for cinema in the next 11 months… As […]

“My Funny Valentine” – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – January 10-21, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Friday, January 12, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

From playwright Dave Deveau (Nelly Boy, Tiny Replicas (GayVancouver’s Top 10 Productions of 2011), the Jessie and Oscar Wilde Nominated My Funny Valentine enters the minds of people on the fringes of a murder that will forever affect them and examines the ripple effect of hatred in a community. Haunting, moving, and at times strangely […]

Book Launch for “Not Joy Division” by Andrew James Paterson – January 15, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, January 11, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Bar/Club, Books, Events, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto

The opening of Pleasure Dome’s Winter 2018 season begins with the launch event for Andrew James Paterson‘s new book, Not Joy Division, hard-boiled mystery novella cast in a post-punk social media glow. It is being published by Eldon Garnet’s Impulse B press. To celebrate Pleasure Dome is throwing a party that will feature Andy’s group Derwatt, […]

The Assassination of Giovanni Versace premieres January 17, 2017

posted Thursday, January 11, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Celebrity, Fashion, Queer, Television

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story premieres Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 10 p.m. ET on FX. A dangerous obsession becomes an unthinkable tragedy in the nine-episode, second installment of Ryan Murphy’s critically acclaimed and award-winning anthology series. Iconic fashion designer Gianni Versace (Ramirez) is killed on the steps of his Miami home by serial murderer Andrew Cunanan (Criss) – […]

Netflix premieres, “The End of the F***ing World”

posted Wednesday, January 10, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Lesbian, Music

Based on the award-winning graphic novels, adapted by acclaimed newcomer Charlie Covell, the eight part, half hour series follows James (Alex Lawther, Black Mirror) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden, Penny Dreadful) – a budding teen psychopath and a foul-mouthed rebel fed-up with her boring life. The two embark on a roadtrip to find a better life, […]

Sapphic Aquatica 5-Year Anniversary and Fundraiser – January 28, 2018

posted Monday, January 8, 2018

by: Sherry Sylvain in Events

Sapphic Aquatica is a unique and exclusive bathhouse event for women and transgender individuals. The only gender not welcome at this event is cisgender males – that is, men who were born men and identify as men. The basis and development of Sapphic Aquatica is to be a safe and embracing space for women and […]

“Insidious: The Last Key” unlocks a series of painstaking suspense and a newly crowned Scream Queen

posted Saturday, January 6, 2018

by: Joey Viola in Art, Celebrity, Entertaining, Film

It’s been 7 years since the first chapter of Insidious crept up and spooked its way into the supernatural/horror genre. Many remember the infamous Red-Faced Demon (or virally known as the Lipstick-Faced Demon), just from the trailer: a haunted entity whose sinister esthetic was directly compared to Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace’s villain, […]