Magalie Rouillard-Bazinet, a director, actor and acrobat who moved to the Beach about a year ago, is producing and directing the play Sanctuary, running from March 9 to 12 at Théâtre Français de Toronto at Yonge and College Streets (the play is in English, for those who haven’t brushed up on their Français lately). Sanctuary […]
The Toronto Beaches Children’s Chorus chamber and youth choirs have been practising, practising, practising – and on Sunday, June 12, they’ll be reaping the reward, performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The festival they will take part in is the Distinguished Concerts International New York series, a high-quality performance experience for the ensembles […]
Cadence will perform a holiday show at Beach United Church on Friday, Dec. 18. The a capella group, featuring two local residents, has travelled the world with nothing but microphones and vocal cords, entertaining audiences of all ages. Their energetic stage presence and singing prowess have made the group a hit from small venues to […]
East End rapper Cale Sampson released his second album, The Big Picture, last month. Sampson celebrated the release with a sold-out show at Winchester Kitchen and Bar in Cabbagetown in September. With 10 tracks of self-described “info-rap,” the album features heavy political and social commentary, covering everything from the history of US involvement in global […]
How the Scots Invented Canada, Ken McGoogan, 2010, Harper Collins, 415 pages, $29.99 Writer and historian Ken McGoogan paraphrased the title of his most recent book from Arthur Herman’s classic How the Scots Invented the Modern World, published in 2001. McGoogan said that his book, How the Scots Invented Canada, expands on “the relatively few […]
