TIFF marks 40th anniversary of Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense” concert film with a 4K restoration IMAX live streamed screening and Q&A with band members – Sept 11, 2023

posted Friday, September 1, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Music, Toronto

The Toronto International Film Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense with a special event screening on Monday, September 11, at Cineplex’s Scotiabank IMAX Theatre in Toronto. The special IMAX Live 40th anniversary event will include a screening of the film followed by a Q&A, which will be live-streamed from TIFF to select […]

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Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest” opens Village Players 50th season – Sept 8 to 30, 2023

posted Friday, September 1, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Theatre, Toronto

Village Players is very excited to open our 50th season with Oscar Wilde’s peerless classic, The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Anne Harper. It runs from Friday, September 8, until Saturday, September 30. The seemingly respectable Jack and the dandy figure Algernon court Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Having invented a reprobate ‘brother’, Ernest, Jack has led a […]

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Rotting In The Sun – Mexican dark comedy grapples with the woes of an indie filmmaker in a gay beach town

posted Wednesday, August 30, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Toronto

ROTTING IN THE SUN is a darkly funny and refreshingly audacious meta-comedy that skewers the business of filmmaking and our self-obsessed culture, when Chilean writer-director Sebastián Silva hilariously turns the camera on himself, as he thunders through Mexico’s city streets and nudist beaches. Depressed, doom-scrolling and downing absurd amounts of Ketamine, director Sebastián Silva takes […]

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Illuminarium – Tech-Driven Entertainment Experience opens at Toronto’s Distillery District

posted Thursday, August 24, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Featured Events, Toronto

Illuminarium, in partnership with Toronto-based Secret Location, opens its first Canadian location in Toronto’s Distillery District on August 25, 2023. A breakthrough global experiential entertainment company created by worldwide leaders in cinematic and interactive content, architecture, and theatrical design, Illuminarium takes place in the former Fermenting Cellar, an expansive 13,500 square-foot complex at 28 Distillery Lane. It will […]

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The Bow – Canadian streaming platform features free original queer content – launch party Aug 24, 2024 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, August 24, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Queer, Streaming Online, Toronto

Bulldog Productions is launching its latest initiative The Bow, a brand new free streaming platform featuring elevated original content created for Queer People by Queer People, and you’re invited to the launch party! Details below. The Bow is a brand-new ad driven streaming platform, free to all users, that will feature elevated original content. In […]

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Madonna brings her Celebration Tour to Toronto for two nights – Jan 11/12, 2024

posted Tuesday, August 15, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Toronto

After a brief illness that had fans concerned for her well-being, it’s now been announced that most of the North America dates of Madonna’s Celebration Tour have been rescheduled, including two in Toronto (Jan 11/12, 2024), and will take place immediately following the originally announced UK and Europe dates. The Celebration Tour will officially kick off […]

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Toronto Fringe Festival offers over 100 performances of theatre, dance, comedy, musicals, and more- July 5 to 16, 2023

posted Tuesday, July 4, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Theatre, Toronto

Toronto Fringe Festival celebrates 35 years with over 100 shows at more than a dozen indoor venues across the city between July 5 – 16, 2023, along with a Launch Party on July 4, KidsFest and Kids Camp, and summer fun at the POSTSCRIPT Patio located outside the Transac Club at 292 Brunswick Ave. The […]

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Little Canada has unveiled Little East Coast, featuring landmarks from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador

posted Friday, June 30, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Toronto

Little Canada, Toronto’s renowned miniature attraction and Attractions Ontario’s 2022 Top Attraction of the Year, is getting bigger. Little East Coast showcases historical and cultural features and landmarks from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. A year in the making, Little East Coast is the first full destination to be […]

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Toronto designer Jon De Porter’s 2024 Cruise Collection runway presentation features a performance by the Canadian Opera Company – June 29, 2023

posted Tuesday, June 27, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Fashion, Featured Events, Toronto

After selling his his uptown pearl parrures to well heeled clients all over Canada, New York and Germany, two times Swarovski Award finalist Jon de Porter presents his 2024 Cruise Collection at Lavelle (627 King Street West, Toronto) in an unprecedented Yorkville meets King West show taking place June 29, 2023. De Porter is known […]

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Through the Eyes of Boricuas – Puerto Rican art exhibition tells queer stories from the island’s past, present and future – June 23, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, June 22, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Featured Events, Photography, Queer, Toronto

Known as the LGBTQ+ capital of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico invites travellers from all backgrounds and identities to join in the Boricua spirit. Come and live a Pride experience like no other, at an event where strangers are not strangers for long. Partnering with Discover Puerto Rico, Condé Nast x Vogue brings the immersive Pride […]

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