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This is Me, the new video from Sofonda and James Forrester, is GORGEOUS!

posted Wednesday, February 7, 2018

by: in Dance, Drag, Entertaining, Music

It is gorgeous, and it is timely, the latest collaboration of James Forrester and Sofonda, is “great showmanship”. Last week they teased us on social media that something is coming, and on Monday their video for “This is Me” dropped. So, I reached out to the creative collaborators for a bit of a chat. Sofonda, […]

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Take a road trip to fabulous Winter Pride Ottawa, with the wonderful Kendall Partington!

posted Friday, February 2, 2018

by: in Entertaining, Music, Pride

Some of my favourite people is singer and piano wizard Kendall Partington, whom I chatted with when he released his album Milestones (link). Also, some of my most favourite people is André Proulx, from BlackSwan Events in Ottawa, whom while I never met in person, we have been Facebook friends for a while, and always […]

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Queer Portraits: Sarah Hunter

posted Thursday, January 25, 2018

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

As the administer for the K.M. Hunter Foundation, Sarah Hunter is well known in the charitable community for her support of arts, culture, the environment and HIV/AIDS. In Sarah’s off hours she is a dedicated full-time artist whose work is as beautiful as it is provocative. In 2008 she began what was to become her […]

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“Queens On King” presents an early evening of drag and burlesque cabaret

posted Friday, January 19, 2018

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

The Church/Wellesley Village was once the crowning jewel of gay Toronto, but in recent years our venues have moved out to other areas of the city. Some argue that as we lose the close concertation of LGBT spaces we forgo a certain amount of power and safety as a community, but the flip side is […]

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“Progress Festival” explores emerging performance works – Feb 1 to 18, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, January 18, 2018

by: in Art, Dance, Events, Featured Events, Music, Theatre

  Progress is an international festival of performance and ideas presented in partnership by SummerWorks Performance Festival and The Theatre Centre. The festival is collectively curated and produced by a series of Toronto-based companies, operating within a contemporary performance context.  This year, the festival is Curated by: SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Anandam Dancetheatre, FADO Performance […]

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Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Rumours” album performed live and intimate – February 4 to 25 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 17, 2018

by: in Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

Coal Mine Theatre presents their first ever Coal Mine Concert, the world premiere of RUMOURS by Fleetwood Mac, February 4-25, 2018 at the intimate Coal Mine Theatre. Ted Dykstra, Coal Mine Co-Chief Engineer and RUMOURS creative guide, has assembled a local group of musicians to play the album live in order from start to finish. “Two years-ago I was driving around […]

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Come Up To My Room – January 18 to 21, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, January 15, 2018

by: in Art, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Music, Queer, Toronto

Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition. Each year CUTMR provides artists and designers the opportunity to take risks, to push their ideas, to evoke meaning not just function. CUTMR 2018 explores how people interact with art and design. Is it a shared experience mediated by an artist or designer? Or […]

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Book Launch for “Not Joy Division” by Andrew James Paterson – January 15, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, January 11, 2018

by: in Art, Bar/Club, Books, Events, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto

The opening of Pleasure Dome’s Winter 2018 season begins with the launch event for Andrew James Paterson‘s new book, Not Joy Division, hard-boiled mystery novella cast in a post-punk social media glow. It is being published by Eldon Garnet’s Impulse B press. To celebrate Pleasure Dome is throwing a party that will feature Andy’s group Derwatt, […]

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Netflix premieres, “The End of the F***ing World”

posted Wednesday, January 10, 2018

by: in Film, Lesbian, Music

Based on the award-winning graphic novels, adapted by acclaimed newcomer Charlie Covell, the eight part, half hour series follows James (Alex Lawther, Black Mirror) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden, Penny Dreadful) – a budding teen psychopath and a foul-mouthed rebel fed-up with her boring life. The two embark on a roadtrip to find a better life, […]

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“Long Winter” brings art, music and more to Gladstone Hotel – January 5, 2018

posted Friday, January 5, 2018

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Dance, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Music, Queer, Toronto

MUSIC FROM PEOPLE CITY TORONTO’S MUSICAL  UNDERGROUNDS This all-ages, pay-what-you-can concert and exhibition includes a multi-room visual tour of select moments in Toronto’s alt-music history: subcultures, milieu, and happenings from 1970s to the present. Revisit our city’s DIY past alongside its most exciting emerging scenes. This project is a part of Myseum Presents: Music from People City, a city-wide celebration […]

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