A half-century ago at the prompting of a disc jockey, Bob Newhart decided to take a stab at stand-up comedy. It took. So much so that his 1960 debut comedy record, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, won a Grammy Award as Album of the Year and went straight to number one on the charts, topping the likes of Elvis Presley in the process.
Born into the family business, Emilie-Claire Barlow grew up in a home filled with music, instruments laying about waiting to be played. Her parents were professional session musicians: Mom sang, Dad played the drums. And it didn’t take long for Barlow to follow suit.
Columnist Joanne Kates explains how target validation is an essential key to shaping a child’s behaviour.
Residents and Town staff alike are outraged after the recent removal of more than 100 trees on David Dunlap Observatory lands.
The Thornhill Community Centre and Library is set to receive a $6 million facelift.
Repeated sightings of coyotes in our area and a related warning by the Toronto Police Service as a result of repeated sightings in the Don Mills area have put some area residents on edge about the safety of our local green spaces.
North York’s Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West intersection is the worst of the worst according to a recently compiled list of the city’s most dangerous intersections.
A new development proposal could add a high-rise residential tower and hotel to Yonge Street.
The first memorial monument to honour Canadian soldiers killed serving in Afghanistan will be built in Richmond Hill.
When Toronto mayor David Miller announced his impending retirement, it didn’t surprise many. But does he have enough municipal chutzpah to go down as a mayor people will remember decades from now?
Richmond Hill’s first off-leash dog park recently opened to the joy of two- and four-legged residents alike.
It’s a bogus accusation of inequity, say the North Toronto Hockey Association (NTHA) and the North Toronto Arena, that is neither fair nor accurate.
