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 […]
posted Thursday, April 23, 2015
Pride Toronto are slowly announcing their line up of entertainment this year via social media, as opposed to the more traditional way of press releases. As well, it was just announced that Pride Toronto are officially partnering with The 519 to present the popular DJ-driven Starry Night at Green Space fundraising event this year. Here […]
posted Wednesday, April 22, 2015
I’m usually somewhat loathe to venture in to the Queen West neighbourhood; hipsters, over-priced boutiques and horrible parking are among my least favourite things on earth. After a drive of slightly less than 90 minutes, through crush hour traffic from western suburbia (land of plentiful and expansive parking lots), I entered Dark Horse Espresso Bar to […]
posted Monday, April 20, 2015
Yes, on the evening of Thursday, April 16, 2015, Jeanne Beker made me cry. She made a lot of other people cry. And, she was crying by the end of her acceptance speech as one of the honourees at the DAREarts (Discipline Action Responsibility Excellence) Leadership Awards Gala at the Allstream Centre on the CNE […]
posted Sunday, April 19, 2015
Today I have Julie Brown with us; the singer and lead guitarist of the Queens, New York-based classic rock band, Chaos and Lace. Welcome Julie! Great to have you joining me on The Sonic City. Casey: Tell us a little bit about your musical influences, your band, and its history. Julie: I pretty much picked […]
posted Saturday, April 11, 2015
The Sonic City chats with a very special guest internationally renowned singer-songwriter Matt Gold. As an openly gay artist, Matt has forged a career in the music industry, rising to the Top of the Adult Contemporary music charts of Amazon and the FMQB. With enthusiastic reviews from The Mirror and The Huffington Post, Matt’s career […]
posted Thursday, April 9, 2015
Most everyone knows the story, whether by way of John Waters or John Travolta, or the really cool kids by way of Divine. It’s toured live on stages everywhere, and was a feature film box office hit. The 1950’s are so in the past, and change is in the (h)air! It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and […]
posted Wednesday, April 8, 2015
After unanimous rave reviews, sold out performances and standing ovations in New York and across Australia, Spiegelworld is proud to bring its all-new show EMPIRE to Toronto starting September 1, 2015. Produced by Spiegelworld and presented by evenko, EMPIRE smashes the boundaries of circus, cabaret, variety and burlesque, reinventing the genres for a 21st century […]
posted Monday, March 30, 2015
When I had the opportunity to see Los Angeles based band The Muffs this past weekend, I was rather excited. The band had their heyday during the 1990s, and as someone who was born in 1984 and lived though a 1998-2003 era of music during high school, I always felt that I grew up through […]
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