TIFF’s annual Boombox party fundraiser, featuring Drag Battle, Cirque du Soleil, and more! – Oct 31, 2019

posted Monday, October 28, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Charity, Drag, Events, Fashion, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto

On October 31, TIFF Bell Lightbox welcomes back boombox, Toronto’s finest Halloween bash. This year’s event will be an all-out Heroes vs. Villains battle, featuring imaginative creators, interactive installations, and a special performance from Cirque du Soleil’s Alegría. Be you a scoundrel or a saviour, a superhero or a supervillain, TIFF invites you to don your Halloween […]

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Tegan and Sara – intimate tour stops in Toronto, October 18 and 19, 2019

posted Sunday, October 13, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Books, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Music, Toronto

Tegan and Sara announced dates for a fall/winter North American tour, that stops here in Toronto on October 18 and 19, 2019. Other Canadian stops include Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Montreal. Read to bottom on how you can get PWYC tickets to all shows, even if sold out. The Hey, I’m Just Like You Tour features […]

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We chat with DJs Stephan Grondin and Lady McCoy about Montreal’s 2019 Black & Blue!

posted Wednesday, October 2, 2019

by: Antoine Elhashem in Bar/Club, Charity, Dance, Entertaining, Events, Montreal, Music

One of the biggest annual dance festivals is almost upon us. Montreal’s Black & Blue takes place from October 9th to the 15th. I had the pleasure on chatting with two exciting DJs who will be getting us dancing this year, and I asked them a few questions. DJ Stephan Grondin Stephan Grondin love for music […]

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A chat with Black & Blue as they gear up for a 29th spectacular year!

posted Monday, September 30, 2019

by: Antoine Elhashem in Art, Bar/Club, Entertaining, Events, Montreal, Music, Queer

On the occasion of the upcoming 29th year of Black & Blue, Montreal’s biggest LGBTQ dance festival, taking place between October 9 and 15, I chatted with President of BBCM Robert J Vezina. Get ready for a great festival eveyone and get your tickets right away. Robert why don’t you give us a quick run […]

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Dandelot – NYC-based artist meshes piano loops with hip hop beats

posted Monday, September 30, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, New York City, Queer

NY-based experimental artist and producer Dandelot (DON-de-loh), aka Kevin Shoemaker, has released his new single and video for “Tutu”. Merging a bouncy hip hop beat with a classically influenced piano loop, “Tutu” is an upbeat, catchy tune that channels Dandelot’s experience as a classically trained ballet pianist in New York. The visual doubles down on the ballet theme, featuring three […]

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ScrapFest – A Night of South Asian Queer / Alt Culture Rock and Roll – Sept 28, 2019 (Mississauga)

posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, Queer

ScrapFest is a multicultural, immigrant friendly indie music series showcasing alternative artists with varied geopolitical backgrounds and a common outsider perspective. The platform seeks to bridge cultural differences by showcasing artists with a shared queer inclusive narrative. Actually, we just want to have to have fun. “Live loud queer and proud. The future is in full […]

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A bright hearted singer Sharon Pereira releases an important song on suicide!

posted Friday, September 20, 2019

by: Antoine Elhashem in Music

I chatted with Sharon back in 2015 when she was releasing her album Perfect Stranger. I right away liked this energetic passionate artist. Sharon Pereira is a 22-year old singer, songwriter and recording artist based in Malta. Having performed in many different venues all her life across Canada, the UK, and Malta, she has developed […]

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Queer Stage Mothers: Thom Fitzgerald & Brad Hennig

posted Thursday, August 29, 2019

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

For the upcoming issue of AutumnPlay, I spoke with Thom Fitzgerald who was in LA working on his upcoming film, Stage Mother, which stars Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, and Adrian Grenier among others. The plot follows a conservative church choir director who inherits a drag club in San Francisco started by her deceased son, from whom she was estranged after he came out as gay. “Even […]

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Aaron De Sousa releases his “Necessity”!

posted Friday, August 9, 2019

by: Antoine Elhashem in Music

Aaron De Sousa is a singer and songwriter whom I worked with on a very special event in memory of those in our community lost at Pulse/Orlando. We filmed “Cuarenta y Nueve” (49 in Spanish) a very special episode of the community talk show that I host “On the Couch” at Glad day Bookshop, and […]

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

posted Tuesday, August 6, 2019

by: Raymond Helkio 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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