Beaujolais from the named villages in the north of the region have more complexity and concentration than Beaujolais from the south. You can serve this deeply-coloured wine at cellar temperature with meat or chilled with fish. On the nose, you’ll experience ripe black cherries, spice, violets and an earthy note. Well structured. Food match: ham, roast chicken.
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.
In the world of fashion, the leopard print is considered to be practically neutral. It is as essential to the wardrobe as a basic white T-shirt or a good pair of jeans — adding a hint of wild spots to a simple outfit can take it to a whole new level of fierce.
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?)
The Prohibition, otherwise known as the “Noble Experiment,” may have been one of the most deceptive eras of the past century. Far from noble and anything but dry, Prohibition, as North Americans know it, was a roaring jumble of bootleg booze, bloody black market feuds, speakeasy ragers and sultry, underground jazz.
School Damage walk a well-beaten path in terms of method: light-speed guitar, punishing drums and bouncing bass are the backdrop for snotty lead vocals, angry lyrics and sugary-sweet harmonies. But sometimes there’s no point in trying to expand on something that’s been tried and tested. Guitar, drums, bass, attitude: there’s really not much room for improvement there. Throw in a decent hook and you’ve got the formula for the best songs of the last 70 years or so.
We’ve always found the concept of the celebrity gifting suite inherently unfair — after all, these well paid (some might argue overpaid) individuals are the ones who can actually afford to buy up heaps of swag without a second thought, right?
The Polaris Music Prize is awarded to the best Canadian album of the year independent of record sales, genre or popularity. In recent years it’s become one of the premier incentives for, and promotions of, Canadian music. On Sept. 19 the winner will be named, and this year’s may be a surprise for being, well, a little unsurprising. Here are the shortlist nominees, along with a selected track from their albums, plus, a highly unscientific estimate as to their chances of winning.
“Is this a donut which I see before me? D’oh!” Blending William Shakespeare’s text while impersonating no less than 50 of Springfield’s infamous residents, Rick Miller presents a unique theatrical experience for those who prefer Bart over the Bard.
Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street, 416-504-9971. Sept. 13-25
