The final weekend of the 33rd annual Beaches International Jazz Festival will feature a pair of drive-in concerts set for the evenings of Friday, July 23, and Saturday, July 24. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival had to alter the way it took place for the second summer in a row. This year’s festival […]
By ALEXANDROS VAROUTAS East York playwright Erin Jones’ Time Limits Dropped on Easter Sunday will be featured in this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. The play tells the story of an online bereavement group who spend time together remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group members end up going on a journey together after using artificial […]
The Beaches International Jazz Festival continues this weekend with Afrofest and Block Party drive-in concerts. This is the festival’s 33rd year, and as was the case in 2020, this July’s jazz festival has had to change the way its events are presented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this weekend, a trio of drive-in concerts […]
The 33rd annual Beaches International Jazz Festival continues this week with virtual workshops and concerts. As was the case in 2020, the way this July’s jazz festival is taking place has been altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with virtual events this week, there are also a number of drive-in concerts slated for the […]
By ANSON WONG Melanie Barrett released her books How to Sabotage Studying and How to Make Working From Home-WORK in May of this year. “I just want to help people live their best lives and be their best selves,” Barrett said. “And as a teacher, I think that’s what I’ve been doing for a couple […]
The 33rd annual Beaches International Jazz Festival kicks off this weekend with the DriveN’Drag: Tea Party in Wonderland concerts in the parking lot of the Guildwood GO Station. The drive-in concerts take place on the evenings of Friday, July 2 and Saturday, July 3. The 90-minute choreographed shows feature a “stellar cast of Toronto Drag […]
The Beach Guild of Fine Art will be hosting its Summer Show and Sale online from July 1 to Aug. 31. In its 27th year, the Guild was founded in 1994 by a small group of local artists with the mandate of supporting each other as artists along with promoting and encouraging the appreciation of […]
The Q107 Canada Day concert in Woodbine Park, a traditional part of a Beach summer, will be heading east this year to the Guildwood GO Station parking lot for a drive-in concert on Thursday, July 1. There will be two show times for this event with the first concert slated from 2 to 6 p.m. […]
Local photographer Kerry Hayes has a number of exhibit locations planned for the Beach area this month and next. Hayes’ The Range of Black and White features a portfolio of his personal black and white photography. Considered one of the top feature film still photographers in the world, Hayes has worked on more than 90 […]
By ALAN SHACKLETON Illustrated by Beacher Josh Rosen, The Good Fight graphic novel tells the story of one of the sadder days in Toronto’s history. It was the summer of 1933, the Depression was taking its toll on jobs and the economy, the weather was sweltering hot and tensions between different ethnic communities and neighbourhoods […]
