Before I run out to check out the Indie Awards for this year’s Canadian Music Week, I wanted to drop a couple of photos from last night’s CHUM Fanfest at the Masonic Temple.
Has anyone else noticed that the number of car rental places in Toronto has gone from dozens to practically nothing in the last six months?
Maple Pictures and The GATE are giving away a stack of double passes to see director Pierre Morel’s new film, From Paris With Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
The travelling exhibit, “Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs”, is now on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and it’s definitely an event worth checking out, especially for fans of art, history, or gold.
Edward Albee’s seminal play about the degradation of American marriage and ethics is another vehicle for a successful Soulpepper event. It’s a supremely difficult task to follow an act like Mike Nichols’ movie adaptation starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, whose famously tempestuous marriage imitated Albee’s plot.
Difficult, yes, but not impossible.
Lead singer Hayley Williams and her Paramore bandmates, Josh Farro, Jeremy Davis, Zac Farro, and Taylor York, were in Toronto on October 15 for a packed show at the Kool Haus.
The Kool Haus in Toronto was packed with pushing, excited, screaming fans on Thursday night (October 15) as Paramore took to the stage to perform a few songs.
Covering some of their biggest songs, including a number from their new album Brand New Eyes, Hayley Williams and the band performed fifteen songs, wrapping up with an encore featuring “Misguided Ghosts,” “Misery Business,” and “Brick By Boring Brick.”
Good news Toronto horror fans, a short missive came in earlier today about a free promotional event and I thought it was worth passing the info along, especially if your a fan of director Sam Raimi.
To promote the release of Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell on DVD/Blu-ray, Universal Studios will be screening the unrated director’s cut of the film at the Bloor Cinema next week.
The 2009 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF as it is now called officially, has come to a close and this year the Fairmont Royal York played host to some serious TIFF action. You knew something wonderful was happening here as soon as you walked through the front doors end entered the lobby, a wonderful poster welcoming TIFF participants greeted you. The poster, another touch of brilliance courtesy of the film and TV person here at the Royal York, Kolene Elliott, was a very faithful recreation of the poster for The Wizard of Oz only it wasn’t Oz at the end of the yellow brick road, it was the Royal York. And it just got better from there.
It’s no surprise that Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar’s popular tale, which premiered in Budapest in 1910, was translated and has been embraced by the English theatre. The story of disguising a character to test a lover’s fidelity is a familiar one, employed in many a performance from classic mythology to Shakespeare.
