This reviewer was left feeling awfully old at the end of Green Day’s two hour-plus show last night at the ACC. Part of it may have been my less-than-enthused attitude about sticking it out for a show lasting until — gasp — 11:30 p.m. (a time that, in my younger years, qualified as early evening). But for the most part, my aged feeling stemmed from the band’s disconcerting transition from continuously relevant to, well, nostalgia act.
It’s Thursday, and the weekend is fast approaching. Need stuff to see or do? We’ve got you covered. In this edition, an arts and crafts market, a monologue performance competition, an outdoor water fight for Thai New Year and more.
“Film. It’s what the Jews do best,” reads the homepage of the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. It’s playful and quite possibly true, considering the breath of the 11-day movie event. There are documentaries and dramas, naturally, but also horror, comedy and even a screening of a reality program. Playing across Toronto starting today, the festival features entries from around the world.
He may always remain Brandon Walsh in our memories (and, let’s face it, our hearts), but Vancouver-born actor-director Jason Priestley has had quite a varied career. He stars in the hit HBO Canada series Call Me Fitz, and he’s acted in plays in London’s West End. He’s also directed music videos for Barenaked Ladies, and this past summer, he directed his first feature-length film, Cas & Dylan, to be released later this year.
Life does not always go according to plan — and Italia Ricci probably knows that better than most. The up-and-coming actress and native of Richmond Hill says she never pegged herself as the funny one, but as it so happens, she got her first break with a role in American Pie Presents Beta House (a spinoff of the popular teen comedy series). And, as most teen comedy romps do, Ricci’s story starts with a party.
Who says arena rock is dead? English pop rock trio Muse has spent their current North American tour staking their claim as the next band to take the ‘epic live spectacle’ mantle, following in the footsteps of acts like U2, Queen and Pink Floyd.
With his lacerating tongue, shock of green hair and cigar-chomping grimace, Ed the Sock is an unlikely Canadian media icon.
Toronto has been battling it out with Mother Nature these days, but if wacky weather isn’t an indication that summer is (fingers crossed) just around the corner, then the reveal of the Edgefest lineup certainly is.
For our Comedy Issue, we interviewed seven of the city’s top comedians. Today, we present Mark McKinney, the man who brought us characters such as the Head Crusher, the Chicken Lady and more. Here, McKinney dishes on his Kids in the Hall and Saturday Night Life days, and what he’s been up to since.
Every Monday, we round up the most exciting music news happening in Toronto. In this edition: an upcoming album from City and Colour, Snowblink’s new video, The Bicycles return to music and more.
To many on the hockey-and-Tim-Hortons side of the border, jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding is best known as the performer who beat the Biebs for the 2011 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Robertson Davies Park, located on Avenue Road north of Dupont Street, is surrounded by single-family homes and old, towering trees. It may soon have a new neighbour: a nine-storey condo at 289 Avenue Rd., which has some residents apprehensive. Pam MacDonald, president of the Rathnelly Area Residents Association, is unhappy with the proposal.
