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Category: Culture
Morticia vs. Mary
The Addams Family musical is based on the original Addams Family characters, created by Charles Addams’s cartoons that depict a ghoulish American family; it opened on Broadway in April 2010. History Mary Poppins: The Musical premiered in 2004 in the West End of London (natch) with the familiar story of a magical nanny, but … Continued
Checking out this year’s Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival? Don’t miss these five troupes
The seventh annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival kicked off last night. With over 40 troupes from across the country, there’s a whole lot of funny to be had in not a whole lot of time (six nights, to be exact). We asked performer, writer and Sketch Fest regular Norm Sousa for his top five troupes that are worth checking out.
The Breakfast Hub: Toronto is Canada’s least liked city, Edgewalk earns a world record, youth shelter may be forced to relocate
According to a recent study, Toronto is Canada’s least liked city. “It’s not necessarily that people like their city more than Toronto,” Jim Milway, executive director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management told the National Post. “It’s that people just don’t like Toronto, period.
[National Post]
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Trending in Theatre: Love Lies Bleeding, Seussical, The Provok’d Wife, The Rez Sisters, Macbeth
Love Lies Bleeding is pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a ballet inspired by and featuring the music of Sir Elton John (and Bernie Taupin). Think colourful costumes, tall hats, sunglasses, plenty of pizzazz and men in tight clothes. It’s also an examination on superstardom.
Sony Centre For the Performing Arts, 1 Front Street East, 1-855-872-7669. Nov. 8 – Nov. 12.
The Breakfast Hub: unions prepare for prolonged strike, separating the zoo’s “gay” penguins, Toronto’s secret artifact warehouse
The city and two of its largest unions, Local 79 and Local 416, are preparing for a labour shutdown of up to six months if they cannot reach new contract agreements.
[Globe and Mail]
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Finally, a video game that’s equally as boring as real life
Looking for something to ease the transition from the weekend to the daily grind this Monday? Then this video game by Patrick T. Lo is probably not for you. Unless, that is, you’ve been longing for a video game that recreates the daily grind, TTC trips included.
The Breakfast Hub: getting creative with car-free zones, the Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Don Cherry declines his honorary doctorate
Car-free zones are starting to get some attention in Toronto as the city looks at creative ways of implementing them.
[Toronto Star]
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Five Reasons to check out the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (yes, mutant pumpkins are involved)
This month, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair celebrates a whopping 89 years of family friendly, farm-oriented fun. Here are the top five reasons why a visit to the Royal Fair is a worthwhile endeavour for rural folk and city slickers alike.
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival Hour: Sleepwalk Guitar Festival, Metric, Deadmau5, The Darcys, Barenaked Ladies
Nov. 21 has been announced as the new date for the “physical retail release” of Metric‘s remix album, Fantasies Flashbacks (proceeds donated to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). According to an announcement on the band’s website, the album was supposed to be released a couple weeks back, but has to be pushed back due to the fire at the Sony/PIAS Distribution warehouse in London following the recent riots. That’s the bad news.
The Breakfast Hub: the potential for bike lanes on Richmond and Adelaide, Doctor Cherry, bringing back the Fort York bridge
Committee members at City Hall voted unanimously for an environmental assessment that could pave the way for permanent bike-only tracks along Richmond and Adelaide streets by 2013.
[Globe and Mail]
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Band of the Week: Pidgin
And now for something completely different. Last week we brought you The Danger Bees, a band very much bounded inside the traditionalist songwriting and singular vision of David Macmichael. Here at the other end of the spectrum lies Pidgin, a local five-piece act that relies on intuitive composition and operates almost completely outside of the realm of language and established genre constraints.