posted Friday, January 20, 2017
Opening January 20, Hart House Theatre presents a musical based on Stephen King’s well-known revenge thriller novel, Carrie: the musical is directed by Toronto theatre icon, Richard Ouzounian, and stars a cast of young performers. Tormented at school by the ‘cool’ kids, and smothered at home by her religious zealot mother, Carrie is a true outcast. […]
posted Thursday, January 19, 2017
It was reported on January 12th that Superstar DJ Keoki has been arrested for drug possession stemming from an incident where NBC producer Thomas Felty was found dead a few weeks back in a New York City apartment. Keoki is still reportedly in jail, and while friend Patrick Walsh was also charged with the same […]
posted Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Can you tell if a painting is a work of fiction? Can you spot a non-fiction sculpture? What about theatre, do you know when it’s based on reality? And if reality is subjective, does it even matter? Could reality be whatever we take away from an experience? This combination of fact and fiction, what author Alec […]
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 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 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 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 Saturday, December 17, 2016
The Lower Ossington Theatre has been producing some unique one-of-a-kind shows for the past several years, long before “The Ossington Strip” became gentrified and glorified. This theatre house is one of the mainstays of culture, along with the awesome Sweaty Betty’s, on this otherwise strand of bland. Beyond my cynicism, there are actually a few half-decent spots that […]
posted Wednesday, November 23, 2016
MADONNA: REBEL HEART TOUR was shot around the world and features a collection of live and behind these scenes footage culminating in performances at the Sydney Olympic Park in March of this year. The film is co-directed by Danny B. Tull and Nathan Rissman, both of whom have worked extensively with Madonna on her feature films […]
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