Rob and Doug Ford have decided to abandon their plan to turn the waterfront into a glitzy fantasyland. Lovers of giant ferris wheels collectively mourn.
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After digressing a little to collaborate with Danger Mouse as Broken Bells, The Shins (September 22 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre) frontman James Mercer still finds time to tour with his flagship indie band.
It was environmentalist Tzeporah Berman’s second summer on Vancouver Island helping conduct scientific research for the Wilderness Committee. The data the team had collected the previous summer, while camped in a grove of Sitka spruce in an old-growth temperate rainforest, proved that the survival of a seabird called the marbled murrelet depended on the forest. It was supposed lead to the permanent preservation of the forest.
Yep, this Pulitzer Prize-nominated play is about the invention of the vibrator. At the dawn of the age of electricity, women are treated for a variety of disorders by paraoxysms induced by, well, a vibrator, and soon the little device becomes, er, a sensation, inducing a whole different kind of hysteria. All women hail Thomas Edison.
Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman Avenue, 416-531-1827. Sept. 21 – Oct. 23.
This isn’t your typical slumber party. Complementing fringe sports like the Lingerie Football League, Toronto’s female athletes are giving a whole new meaning to the term pillow talk.
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Already selling out arenas, Russell Peters ready to tackle the red carpet at TIFF
Just when you thought your morning commute couldn’t get any worse: talks between GO Transit bus drivers and Metrolinx are slowly moving forward. How fitting.
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With service cuts on the table, Rob Ford is taking a dive in public support, according to a new poll. It seems the so-called gravy train has run out of steam.
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It’s a week full of festivals all over Toronto, so get on your dancing shoes for samba and polka, and then feast on perogis and bulgogi. Known by a variety of names, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over East Asia; this week, it’s being celebrated all over the GTA. But there’s also a Polish festival and a Ukranian festival, as well as samba on Dundas. Read on to find out the where, when and why of this festi-full week.
Kim Cattrall might be best known for her role as Samantha Jones in Sex and the City, but there is more to this actress than a narcissistic nymphomaniac. A classically trained stage actress, Cattrall has managed to craft an enduring career that includes both TV and film work as well as stage productions.
Toronto’s strippers are apparently some of the “most intellectual” in the country. With a third of the city’s strippers enrolled in college or university, students can earn big bucks in tips and table dancing, not that we would know what goes on in strip joints.
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When one thinks of the most successful musicals of the 20th century, one thinks of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser and, of course, the inspired Stephen Sondheim. Lerner and Loewe also teamed together for what is arguably the single, perfect musical of the 1900s, now playing to full houses at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, My Fair Lady. (When 60 per cent of its book is taken from Bernard Shaw‘s Pygmalion, what can you expect?)
