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Images From The City | IHeartRadio MMVAs
It was a stunning warm night in downtown Toronto for the MMVAs. 299 Queen Street West hosted a spectacular set and the hottest artists. Here’s Macklemore rehearsing before taking the stage. Amber Rose boasted quite the entourage. Amazing to watch the sun set and lights and music fill the city on an almost-summer night. Rosie…
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Images From The City | Ron Hawkins at the Rivoli
Ron Hawkins performing with the Do Good Assassins at the Rivoli. In March he released his 15th album of original material, Spit Sputter and Sparkle. Gerald Butts, the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is a fan. Here he is chatting at the bar with Ron. Do you have images from the city you’d…
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Images From The City | Canadian Music Week
Cape Breton band Port Cities warm up at Canadian Music Week 2016.
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Ten Years of TIFF
2013 marks a couple of big milestones for my husband and I. Ten years of marriage, and ten years of attending the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF makes the end-of-summer-blues much easier to handle. When September rolls around, the excitement of the festival takes over. The Scoop is going to be very busy with TIFF…
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TIFF Bell Lightbox
Last night we saw The East at the TIFF Bell Lightbox at King and John. The Lightbox is the home of Toronto’s hugely popular film fest every September, but you can also see movies there year round without buying tickets in advance. It’s a great theatre, ticket prices for a regular screening are $12 (new…
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Humble & Fred’s 250th Podcast Party
Did you know that Humble & Fred have a podcast? They actually have 250 of them, and they recorded that 250th in front of a live and laughing-very-loudly studio audience Thursday night at Redfish Studios. As co-host of the Toronto Mike’d podcast on the Humble & Fred Radio Network, I attended the event which was…
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TIFF 2012: Frances Ha at the Ryerson Theatre
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the Toronto International Film Fest is in full swing. This means that I get to enjoy fascinating movies from directors I love, who graciously subject themselves to earnest questions from an adoring crowd afterward. What makes TIFF truly awesome is that, with a little planning, anyone can…
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Behind the Mics
I’ve been spending some afternoons co-hosting a podcast with an old friend from high school. Mike Boon runs the popular website torontomike.com and wanted to start a complementary podcast, and asked if I would bring my broadcasting experience to the project to help him get things off the ground. The podcast is hosted on the…
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inspiraTO, Canada’s Largest Ten Minute Play Festival
Update: inspiraTO will be re-launching a ten-minute play festival in partnership with Crane Creations Theatre Company in the summer of 2023. When artistic director Dominik Loncar founded inspiraTO, he wanted to see if you could make high-quality theatre in ten minutes that tells a compelling story. Turns out you can, and people love it. Theatre…