posted Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Major Music Headliners and Entertainment Schedule Unveiled for TO2015’s 35-day Arts and Culture Festival Culture enthusiasts and music lovers can start making summer plans — the entertainment schedule is now available for PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC, the 35-day TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games arts and culture festival. Unprecedented in scale, PANAMANIA will feature more than 1,300 artists in 250 performances and […]
posted Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Casey: Today I have Michelle Bensimon from the Montreal-based band, Diamond Bones. Often described as “Electronic Tribal Space Rock”, Diamond Bones has gained a strong following in recent years throughout Canada and the United States. We’re very exited to have Michelle with us today. Welcome Michelle! Great to have you joining me on The Sonic […]
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In “My Body is Yours”, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male―a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; […]
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2015
I can do nothing but praise this documentary. It was short, sweet and to the point. It also was unexpectedly very emotional. Especially for someone like myself with a music background who perhaps in getting older has forgotten the power music can have on youth. It really tore away at my cynicism and that is […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
For many of my peers who are part of the early-1980s’ Millennial generation (or Generation Y), the name Mavis Staples may not be one of instant recognition. I suppose for various reasons this is understandable with the rather large chronological gap between the height of The Staples Sisters’ popularity and the 1990s musical culture of […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Pride Toronto has announced Scarborough native David Furnish as the 2015 Grand Marshall, and he will be leading the Pride Parade on Sunday June 28, 2015 along with International Grand Marshall Celina Jaitly from India. Pride Toronto annually selects an International Grand Marshall (IGM) who acts as an ambassador to represent global LGBTTIQQ2SA communities during […]
posted Monday, April 27, 2015
Canada’s top sketch comedy troupe, Kids in the Hall, made their triumphant return to the stage in their hometown of Toronto this past weekend, before they begin of a mini-tour that has them playing Hamilton tonight, before heading stateside for a bunch of shows, and back up through the west coast of Canada. The entire […]
posted Sunday, April 26, 2015
After my performance as American Horror Story’s Elsa Mars at the Great Hall with Illuminair Entertainment on Sunday April 19, I trucked across town to legendary drag bar Crews and Tangos to witness one of the most turnt out drag pageants Toronto has seen for a while. Organiser Matteo Cassano ( aka Heroine Marks) showed […]
posted Sunday, April 26, 2015
When I was but a young tater-tot making my way through the gay community of Cape Town, South Africa, we had two clubs (Bronx and 55), and one drag queen no one saw. So this year, after eight years away , I was invited to drag night at the new Crew Bar down in the […]
posted Friday, April 24, 2015
Casey: Today on The Sonic City we have a very special guest, director Maya Newell of the recent documentary film Gayby Baby. As an award-winning filmmaker, Newell’s recent project has provided an intimate look into the lives of four Australian families. While each of these families are immensely unique in their goals, dreams, and day-to-day […]
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