“Long Winter” brings art, music and more to Gladstone Hotel – January 5, 2018

posted Friday, January 5, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Dance, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Music, Queer, Toronto

MUSIC FROM PEOPLE CITY TORONTO’S MUSICAL  UNDERGROUNDS This all-ages, pay-what-you-can concert and exhibition includes a multi-room visual tour of select moments in Toronto’s alt-music history: subcultures, milieu, and happenings from 1970s to the present. Revisit our city’s DIY past alongside its most exciting emerging scenes. This project is a part of Myseum Presents: Music from People City, a city-wide celebration […]

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Rhubarb Festival – February 14 to 25, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 3, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Bar/Club, Comedy, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for its 39th year this February. For two weeks, The Rhubarb Festival transforms Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre into a hotbed of experimentation, exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, comedy, music, installation, and performance art. Rhubarb is the place to experience the most adventurous ideas in performance and catch […]

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Danforth Sidebar opens January 12th, 2018

posted Tuesday, January 2, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Bar/Club, Dining, Events, Music, Toronto

Embrace and The Danforth Music Hall have teamed up once again, this time to open their own separate bar – Danforth Sidebar. Located next door to the Danforth Music Hall at 161 Danforth Avenue, Sidebar was conceived as a natural extension of the concert going experience, offering a new dining option for the pre- and post-concert […]

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An EXCITING dance event to support Toronto People with AIDS Foundation

posted Wednesday, November 22, 2017

by: Antoine Elhashem in Bar/Club, Charity, Dance, Entertaining, Featured Events, Uncategorized

Some of my most favourite people are people who like to dance, so when Brian Torner, Director of The Continental Dance Club, asked me to be Master of Ceremonies at an event he was creating for December 1st, I gladly jumped on board. I got to know Brian through a common friend, and the more […]

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Go Inside to Watch OUTSIDE at Buddies (Nov 17 and 18, 2017)

posted Wednesday, November 15, 2017

by: Raymond Helkio in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre present’s Roseneath Theatre’s production of Paul Dunn’s Outside. A group of students trace back the roots of trauma after an act of homophobic violence tears a school community apart. Written during the rise to prominence of Gay Straight Alliances, Outside looks at issues of depression, violence, bullying, and suicide from the perspective […]

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Scarlett BoBo on Drag, Family and Taking Risks

posted Sunday, October 29, 2017

by: Raymond Helkio in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

  If Kristen Chenoweth and Megan Hilt had sexual relations, the off-spring might be a lot like Toronto’s Scarlett Bobo. “The most positive change is that drag has evolved into such a beautiful art form… You have bearded queens, glamour queens, bio queens, goth queens and everything in between and they’re all melting together and […]

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Bananarama in Toronto Feb 23, 2018

posted Tuesday, October 10, 2017

by: Bryen Dunn in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Music, Toronto

AFTER THIRTY YEARS BANANARAMA ARE BACK WITH ORIGINAL LINEUP & REVEAL FIRST FOUR NORTH AMERICAN DATES AS ICONIC TRIO A once-in-a-lifetime cultural event that’s been exactly thirty years in the making, British pop outfit Bananarama touch down in 2018 for their first four dates ever in North America, as the original three-piece lineup – Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward, […]

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“Black & Blue” – October 5 to 9, 2017 (Montreal)

posted Friday, September 29, 2017

by: Bryen Dunn in Bar/Club, Events, Featured Events, Montreal, Music, Queer

The 27th annual edition of the Black & Blue Festival in Montreal will be presented from October 5 to 9 under the LUMINOCITY theme. This year, festival participants will celebrate Montreal’s diversity under the effects of lights —an homage to the city’s 375th Anniversary festivities. LUMINOCITY 2017 BLACK & BLUE: Montreal shines bright! From October […]

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Confessions of a Gay Wedding Officiant: For Butter Or Worse

posted Monday, September 25, 2017

by: Raymond Helkio in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Mark Stenabaugh is an actor, television personality, host and one of the most fabulous wedding officiants you may ever have grace your special day. If you missed the first post about what a wedding officiant is, you can read it here. As the ringmaster of the ceremony, your officiant can make or break your special […]

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Mark Stenabaugh: Confessions of a Wedding Officiant 

posted Wednesday, August 23, 2017

by: Raymond Helkio in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Mark Stenabaugh is an actor, television personality, host and one of the most fabulous wedding officiants you will ever have grace your special day.  But what’s a wedding officiant you ask? According to Stenabaugh, “I actually don’t think that most couples being married understand the role or importance of the officiant at their ceremony. I […]

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