For flamboyant musician Rufus Wainwright, Toronto’s Luminato Festival is becoming a byword for “tribute concert.” During the 2012 festival, he performed at a concert in honour of his mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who died from cancer three years ago.
After having heard the gorgeous, melancholic songs of Dallas Green, one might assume the mopey rocker who performs under the moniker City and Colour is some sort of pale-skinned, plaid-shirted waif who is scared of his own shadow.
Author. Entrepreneur. Mother. Dragon. These are just a handful of the many hats worn by Arlene Dickinson, the self-made multi-millionaire who went from living hand-to-mouth while raising four children to becoming one of Canada’s most influential women in business. Most of us first got to know the savvy, silver-streaked redhead during the second season of … Continued
Bill Wrigley’s miniature library is perched outside his home on a white post, like a large mailbox. It has two shelves filled with books and a single swinging door. Instructions on the top say “Take a book — Return a book.”
Michael Cera has managed to elevate acting like a dork into an art form. There are few people who do it with such panache. And, what got the geek chic ball rolling was his appearance in the TV show Arrested Development.
One simply cannot do a private hooping session outside without drawing attention, even on a quiet afternoon. As I am hooping in my front yard, with my personal hooping trainer, people honk horns as they drive by, an elderly woman with her caregiver smiles and stops to take in the scene, and a mother pushing a stroller asks what we’re doing.
Let’s hope that Marina and the Diamonds benefits from better circumstances in her next live Toronto performance. And make no mistake, there will be others. After venturing through Toronto to open for Lady Gaga and Katy Perry in the past, Marina made her Toronto debut as a featured performer on Thursday night in what was Echo Beach’s rain-soaked season opener.
Since 1991, Inside Out, a not-for-profit charity that promotes LGBT culture and community through film and video, has held an annual springtime festival in Toronto, and this year some very impressive names are attached to the ever-growing event.
It’s Thursday, and the weekend is fast approaching. Need stuff to see or do? We’ve got you covered. In this edition, a music fest at Echo Beach, anime action in the city, Doors Open events and more.
As an actor and playwright, Ins Choi has performed in front of hundreds of people. He certainly isn’t camera shy or afraid of putting himself out there. But stage fright wouldn’t elude him the first time he met his then future wife, Mari. It took two chance meetings before he worked up the courage to talk to her.
One way to get a lot of publicity for Toronto is to have the mayor in a video that seems to show he is smoking crack cocaine.
Truth be told, when I was asked to review Soulpepper’s latest production, The Barber of Seville, based on Pierre Beaumarchais’ 1775 French farce and Rossini’s 1816 opera, I initially balked. Soulpepper, I adore. French farce? Je t’aime. But opera? No grazie.
