Beryl Mendelbaum: Straight Advice From An Internet Drag Sensation

posted Friday, March 11, 2016

by: Raymond Helkio in Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Queer, Uncategorized

“[Beryl Mendelbaum] is a bitter, seething, mean-spirited Jewish retiree from Boca.” –Lady Bunny Bruce Jope co-founded the Hit Parade Magazine, and infamous clubs such as the former Love Shack in Provincetown, but most recently he’s the mastermind behind the Facebook drag persona Beryl Mandelbaum, his alter ego and an internet drag sensation who delivers straight advice that’s only universal in it’s offensiveness. Originally born in New York […]

Toronto’s Luminato Festival Turns 10 in 2016 – Special Programming Throughout June

posted Monday, March 7, 2016

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

Once again this year Luminato will create something super special at the Hearn Generating Station to celebrate the creativity and inventiveness of the city that gave birth to the Festival. In June the festival is going to #TurnOnTheHearn and transform this incredibly epic decommissioned power plant into a public art centre with a theatre, a […]

Marti Gould Cummings: The Queen of Drag Suicide

posted Friday, March 4, 2016

by: Raymond Helkio in Art, Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Fashion, Music, Queer

“The love child of Liza Minnelli and Johnny Weir.”–Michael Musto New York based Marti Gould Cummings is a singer and host of some of the cities most notorious drag spectaculars. His career includes off Broadway theatre, national tours, red carpet interviews, a hit single Real Girl and Show Me Your Dick. Marti has been nominated for Glam […]

Not-To-Be-Missed Upcoming Nights at Leslieville’s “The Duke”

posted Thursday, March 3, 2016

by: SK Dyment in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Last Friday night I dropped by The Duke, a red brick Leslieville landmark built in 1870 and an historic night spot that offers 5 dollar pints, karaoke, sports TV, open pool tables, and claims of a great kitchen backed up by the sight of several generous servings seen sliding past on their way to delivery! […]

Kensington’s “The Round” Hosts an Eating Disorders Event

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

by: SK Dyment in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Here’s something worth checking out. If you go to the gym often and wonder about some of the things you overhear, or if you have friends who engage in negative or conformist body image talk, you are not alone. At The Round in Toronto’s Kensington Market on February 4th, a collection of performers in […]

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to speak at SXSW Music, Film, Interactive

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Music

South by Southwest (SXSW) has announced that President Barack Obama will appear as part of a Keynote Conversation at SXSW Interactive on Friday, March 11 and First Lady Michelle Obama will be the opening Keynote at SXSW Music on Wednesday, March 16. This marks the first time in the 30-year history of SXSW that a […]

Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s – 1980s – March 12 to May 29 at AGO

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Art Gallery, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Film, Gallery, Lesbian, Photography, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Outsiders, a special exhibition of unforgettable images opening at the AGO March 12, 2016, and highlights photographers and filmmakers working in the United States from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s in a time of intense political and cultural turmoil. It’s no accident that artists at the time turned to photography and film — mass […]

Foxfinder at the Village Playhouse until March 19, 2016

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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

FOXFINDER is a gripping and unsettling parable, a darkly comic exploration of belief, desire and responsibility, set in a world both strange and familiar. William Bloor, a ‘foxfinder’, arrives at Sam and Judith Covey’s farm to investigate a suspected contamination. He is driven by his education and beliefs to unearth and destroy an animal […]

Anarres Natural Health – A Gem in the West End of Toronto

posted Tuesday, March 1, 2016

by: SK Dyment in Art, Books, Queer, Toronto

Great times at a delightful health resource on Dovercourt, Anarres Natural Health This cool little shop is run by Tracey Tief, a holistic health practitioner who also runs a collection of amazing workshops both in the store and around the city. With everything from healing “mojo” oils and workshops emphasizing sexual health for womyn, lgbti, […]

Elle Emenopé: Turning Drag On Its Ear

posted Thursday, February 25, 2016

by: Raymond Helkio in Art, Bar/Club, Celebrity, Drag, Events, Fashion, Photography, Queer, Theatre

“It’s what I’m trying to do with drag; look at it, learn it and then turn it on it’s ear.” -Elle Emenopé, Closet Case Born in Shorewood, Wisconsin Elle Emenopé (boy name: Elliott Reiland) came to New York and to study at NYU Tisch while he co-founded the “Negative 30 Dance Company”. He’s performed at such […]