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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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Rhubarb Festival – February 14 to 25, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 3, 2018

by: in Art, Bar/Club, Comedy, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Canada’s longest-running new works festival returns for its 39th year this February. For two weeks, The Rhubarb Festival transforms Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre into a hotbed of experimentation, exploring new possibilities in theatre, dance, comedy, music, installation, and performance art. Rhubarb is the place to experience the most adventurous ideas in performance and catch […]

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Danforth Sidebar opens January 12th, 2018

posted Tuesday, January 2, 2018

by: in Bar/Club, Dining, Events, Music, Toronto

Embrace and The Danforth Music Hall have teamed up once again, this time to open their own separate bar – Danforth Sidebar. Located next door to the Danforth Music Hall at 161 Danforth Avenue, Sidebar was conceived as a natural extension of the concert going experience, offering a new dining option for the pre- and post-concert […]

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Simone Denny releases a delightful Christmas single!

posted Monday, December 18, 2017

by: in Music

Some of my most favourite people are those who have a lot of talent. In my opinion, multi Juno Awards winner Simone Denny is one of those people. I love Simone Denny, I have always loved Simone Denny. Back in the days of me shaking my groove thing on the dance floors, and when Simone […]

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