posted Tuesday, May 26, 2015
It’s been 25 years since the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival made its debut, and this quarter century milestone proves that the caliber and representation from a wide spectrum of topics continues to flourish. The team behind this festival work hard to make it happen, and it shows with creative and diverse programming, and of […]
posted Sunday, May 24, 2015
When I first joined the planning committee for the Durham Pride Prom three years ago, there were quite a few raised eyebrows among my family and friends. I suppose this reaction was understandable. After all, I never did attend prom when I graduated from high school a little over a decade ago. Being an outsider, […]
posted Monday, May 11, 2015
She’s rowdy and she’s outrageous, the defining queen of live comedy and satirical parodies. She’s Jackie Beat! Her musical renditions and parodies of top pop hits, both unique and hysterical, have redefined the art of drag as we know it with boundary breaking lyrics and over the top scenarios, garnering her world wide acclaim and […]
posted Friday, May 8, 2015
Casey: Today, I have Caitlin Grieve, violinist of the Toronto band, Cairo. Welcome Caitlin, great to have joining me on The Sonic City! There’s a lot to discuss today, but to begin, tell our readers a little bit about how you came to develop your eclectic sound, and how the band decided on the name […]
posted Friday, May 8, 2015
So a number of my readers have been asking who my artist picks for Canadian Music Week (CMW) are. At first, I found this to be a rather difficult question to answer. There is literally so much talent in our city this week that it’s almost hard to keep track of who to go see. […]
posted Thursday, May 7, 2015
Building on the success of last year’s WorldPride 2014 Human Rights Conference, Pride Toronto announced “Pride and Prejudice: Human Rights in the Pan Am Region” today. The 2nd annual human rights conference will be held Saturday June 20, 2015 at University of Toronto’s University College. In 2014, over 500 activists from over 50 countries participated […]
posted Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Casey: Today I have Michelle Bensimon from the Montreal-based band, Diamond Bones. Often described as “Electronic Tribal Space Rock”, Diamond Bones has gained a strong following in recent years throughout Canada and the United States. We’re very exited to have Michelle with us today. Welcome Michelle! Great to have you joining me on The Sonic […]
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In “My Body is Yours”, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male―a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
For many of my peers who are part of the early-1980s’ Millennial generation (or Generation Y), the name Mavis Staples may not be one of instant recognition. I suppose for various reasons this is understandable with the rather large chronological gap between the height of The Staples Sisters’ popularity and the 1990s musical culture of […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Pride Toronto has announced Scarborough native David Furnish as the 2015 Grand Marshall, and he will be leading the Pride Parade on Sunday June 28, 2015 along with International Grand Marshall Celina Jaitly from India. Pride Toronto annually selects an International Grand Marshall (IGM) who acts as an ambassador to represent global LGBTTIQQ2SA communities during […]
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