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“Scary Stories” is this summer’s monster mash smash

posted Thursday, August 15, 2019

by: in Art, Books, Celebrity, Entertaining, Film, Toronto

Who among us doesn’t love a good summer scare? And there are so many classic horror stories that either take place in or are released during the summer season, but up until “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” debuted last weekend, the horror genre in 2019 has seen one too many lacklustre sequels and […]

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SLANG: Tom Hearn’s solo sketch show – August 8, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, August 6, 2019

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

If you took all the best of the We’re Funny That Way Festival, you’d wind up with something very close to Tom Hearn’s latest offering, SLANG, a queer solo sketch comedy tour. Original over-the-top stand-up monologues, hyperbolic sketches, and satirical parodies all written by Tom Hearn, whose character impersonations are as funny as they are […]

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Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–1971 – opens Feb 22, 2020 at Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, July 31, 2019

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, New York City, Toronto

There’s very few photographers who stand the test of time and continue to be recognized for the work they’ve accomplished. One such individual is Diane Arbus. The striking black and white photographs of legendary American photographer Diane Arbus (1923–1971) revolutionized portraiture, through their range of subjects and their style. Primarily made in and around New […]

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Movies and Music – Blue Note Records, Leonard Cohen, Melody Maker Magazine

posted Monday, July 15, 2019

by: in Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Film, Music

Music documentaries always provide a great insight into some of our favourite artists, not only behind the scenes of the music industry, but often into the private lives of the musicians themselves. Here are three new flicks that go back several decades, preserving history that some may have forgotten, and others may never have even […]

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Drag Race Canada now accepting auditions for Season 1

posted Tuesday, July 9, 2019

by: in Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Pride, Queer, Toronto

The time has come for Canadian Queens to don their fiercest flannel realness and serve up Canadian charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent as Crave announced today that casting for the original series CRAVE’S DRAG RACE CANADA (werking-title) is now underway. Beginning July 9, Canada’s best drag artists can find more details here on how to enter for their […]

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RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 11 Tour – July 14, 2019 (Toronto)

posted Sunday, June 23, 2019

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

The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 11 Tour is stopping at five Canadian cities this summer, including here in Toronto on July 14, 2019. All fifteen season 11 Queens including A’keria Chanel Davenport, Ariel Versace, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Honey Davenport, Kahanna Montrese, Mercedes Iman Diamond, Nina West, Plastique Tiara, Ra’Jah O’Hara, Scarlet Envy, Shuga Cain, Silky […]

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Toronto Jazz Festival – returns to Yorkville with over 175 free concerts – June 21 to 30, 2019

posted Wednesday, June 19, 2019

by: in Celebrity, Events, Family, Featured Events, Music, Outdoors, Toronto

For those wanting something different than Pride Toronto’s takeover of the city, the Toronto Jazz Festival also starts this weekend, and continues right through to the next with over 175 free concerts and some big name musicians! Film star and The Blues Brothers co-founder Dan Aykroyd, Late Night with David Letterman band leader Paul Shaffer, blues-rock great David Wilcox, Louisiana bluesman Kenny Neal and […]

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre announces 2019/20 season line-up

posted Saturday, June 8, 2019

by: in Activism, Art, Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Montreal, Music, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Artistic Director Evalyn Parry announced the line-up for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 2019/20 season today. After a blowout 40th anniversary season, the theatre company focuses on its role as an incubator for new queer works, with a mainstage production of one of its residency projects, an expanded showcase for its resident artists, and a new curation format […]

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“Tales of The City” debuts on Netflix June 7, 2019 with Ellen Page, Paul Gross, and Molly Ringwald –

posted Monday, June 3, 2019

by: in Celebrity, Film, Lesbian, Pride, Queer, Trans

  The series Netflix’s Tales of the City is a new and original chapter in the beloved and ground breaking Tales franchise of novels and TV miniseries. The series reestablishes characters that fans know and love, while also introducing a new set of characters, storylines and LGBTQ characters a new generation will relate to. Audiences will love and can appreciate […]

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“Cherry Grove Stories” – documentary on this Fire Island hangout releases June 4th

posted Monday, June 3, 2019

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Film, Lesbian, Music, New York City, Queer

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to the historically potent LGBTQ documentary CHERRY GROVE STORIES, which entertainingly recounts time in Cherry Grove including queer origins, Tennessee Williams visits, decadent parties, sexual liberation, HIV alienation and the continual swinging of indecent law enforcement…all told through first person accounts and a treasure trove of fabulous, unseen archival […]

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