posted Monday, December 3, 2018
Sometimes when studying popular culture, one cannot help but notice certain trends or patterns arising. For example, we are in yet another “Year of the Superhero.” We may have escaped from the zombie plagues made popular by George Romero (RIP) and Brad Pitt – or maybe not, if The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking […]
posted Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The third annual Hot Docs Podcast Festival took place in Toronto, November 1 to 5, 2018, and featured over 10 chart-topping live podcasts, and introduced a new two-day Creators Forum for podcast pros. As a deaf individual, my experiences with podcasts are unique, and with the generous support of Bloor St.’s Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, I […]
posted Monday, October 15, 2018
Is art something you frame on the wall, or an experience to remember? In Holding Patterns (1655 Dupont St., various hours, until Oct. 21), art appreciation is found in the unlikeliest of places – a storage facility. Note I said art appreciation, not art storage – who knows how many masterpieces collect dust in those […]
posted Tuesday, October 9, 2018
FESTIVAL OPENS ON WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY WITH THE TORONTO PREMIERE OF CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE THE SONG AND THE SORROW, ABOUT LEGENDARY CANADIAN SONGWRITER GENE MACLELLAN In July, the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, the first and largest mental health film festival in the world, announced that it was dropping “film” from its title, and evolving into its next twenty-five […]
posted Wednesday, June 20, 2018
This LGBT-friendly boutique hotel in the heart of West Queen West is part of the expanding Drake experience, which includes other properties committed to the same arts-focused mission. The Drake is very invested in the community in which it is situated, and is actively involved in supporting Second Harvest and The Parkdale Food Bank to name […]
posted Friday, March 23, 2018
I remember several years back, going to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre when it was at the first location, in a converted auto detailer with a pink leopard spots paint job, and you walked south from Queen St. past Britain and Bootlegger Lane. The original Buddies is an auto detailer again, which goes to show, […]
posted Thursday, January 5, 2017
Glad Day Books, Toronto’s longest-running bookstore and always an awesome place to drop around and visit, has turned overnight into one of the hottest places to hang out in all of Toronto. With an espresso machine, many metres of red granite bar surface, talented bartenders, bright new tiles with neon pink grout, tables with a […]
posted Saturday, December 17, 2016
Woody’s is quite possibly Toronto’s most famous gay bar, especially if you’re a fan of “Queer as Folk”! It’s even fun to go here on the quiet afternoon. There’s a pool table, the daytime music is good, and the DJ’s that arrive later are always hot. There are monitors playing in the background, with usually […]
posted Friday, June 17, 2016
The people at Glad Day Bookshop are business savvy community heroes, no doubt about it! Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto is the world’s oldest LGBTQ bookstore since the closure of New York City’s Oscar Wilde Bookshop in early 2009. Glad Day started in 1970 and has occupied its current location on Yonge Street since 1981. […]
posted Sunday, June 12, 2016
Three nights of experimental and activist film and video. The first annual Toronto Queer Film Festival will showcase contemporary, innovative queer and trans film and video art. The festival is committed to foregrounding work focused on communities typically underrepresented in mainstream film festivals, including work by and about Indigenous people, people of colour, women, persons […]
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