posted Wednesday, January 18, 2017
It’s officially 2017, and while most of us are excited about the “new year, new me” narrative, I can’t help but notice how current global affairs are emulating the Star Wars movie franchise in a “same old mistakes” kind of way. Star Wars and its chronicles seem so paralleled to our own universe, it’s as […]
posted Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Using two retrospectives at LA’s Getty and LACMA museums as a backdrop, this definitive portrait profiles the controversial artist from early childhood, to his beginnings in New York City and his meteoric rise in the art world, to his untimely death in 1989. The only thing more outrageous than Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs was his life. […]
posted Friday, January 13, 2017
A once shocking 1962 LP of love songs… by men, for men. A long lost treasure featuring the cool & sophisticated vocals of Gene Howard and a cast of prime studio jazz musicians, performing a set of standards sung to a male suitor. Ahead of its time in every way. Reissued for the first time […]
posted Thursday, January 12, 2017
Christeene is a human pissoir of raw unabashed sexuality; a gender-blending, booty-pounding, perversion of punk fully equipped with an arsenal of ferocious music intertwined with raw moments of strained intimacy and fiery stank. Reports from live shows describe Christeene appearing alongside two sexually distinct ‘Backup Boyz’, macabre scenes involving butt plugs tied to bouquets of […]
posted Tuesday, January 10, 2017
TIFF rings in the New Year with the 16th annual Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival™, presenting public screenings of 2016’s 10 best features, shorts and student shorts. The 14-day festival kicks off at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto with an Opening Night party on January 13, and features two special onstage events: In Conversation With… Zacharias […]
posted Monday, January 9, 2017
The CBC has been doing quite well recently with their comedy series. First “Schitt’s Creek” took off a couple years back and will be heading into its third season later this month, then “Kim’s Convenience” debuted earlier this year and already has been confirmed for a second season. Now there’s a new kid on the […]
posted Saturday, January 7, 2017
Amanda Roberts will be celebrating 50 years of age this July and she’s done it all; Pride stages, Miss Canada Continental, fundraisers galore, including the Queens Cares for The 519, The Monster in NYC, and working on Queer As Folk. Her local shows have included Crews & Tango, Woody’s/Sailor, and the roving French space Tapette, where she performed at […]
posted Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The snow has fallen, the lights are out, the malls are abuzz with the rambling of shoppers. The excitement of the festive season is contagious. The gift wrapping and giving. The big family gatherings and food for days. Whether it’s Christmas you celebrate, or Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Omisoka or any of the other religious and multicultural […]
posted Monday, December 19, 2016
Rolyn Chambers is the designer of the weekly FML event posters that parody famous movies with a decidedly queer bent. Held inside Flash on Church, the weekly party has been going strong for 6 years. Pole dancers make way for this wildly diverse crowd that take over the space with drag queens, club kids, art fags, […]
posted Monday, December 12, 2016
I love music, almost any kind of music. Recently two emerging artists were brought to my attention, so I had a listen to each of their CD’s to see what they are all about. After the recent international success of Brampton native, Alessia Cara, it seems others from “The 905” are reaching for the same […]
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