On October 20, the Fox Theatre will be hosting Pitch4Pete Movie Night, an event that aims to raise funds to support groundbreaking Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research. The one-night event is in support of Peter Wood, among many other ALS patients and their families who hope to one day find a cure for this debilitating […]
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Afrofest is back at Woodbine Park, bringing the sounds, sights, and smells of African music, food and culture to the Beach. From noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, the 27th annual festival will highlight international and local African artists with no admission cost. Vendors will offer clothing, food, and […]
Fox celebrates a century of film
The Fox Theatre is celebrating a century of entertaining the Beach community. Our favourite local movie house came to life on April 14, 1914, built by Arthur Brooks Webster. Some neighbours had opposed the new development at Queen and Beech Avenue. Pious citizens looked down on moving picture palaces as vulgar dens of iniquity ever […]
70 years later, thrill of the Great Escape lives on
Maybe it’s in a museum now, but for a while Brian Floody’s father kept an old boot heel in the house, its underside carved by razor blade to mimic a Nazi rubber stamp. Maybe it once passed through the fingers of Jens Müller, a Norwegian pilot who trained in Canada, or Robert Buckham, a Toronto […]
Young filmmaker hopes to document good in the world
An ambitious teen and her mother are in the middle of a crowd funding campaign for a documentary about what it means to be a global citizen. If all goes to plan, Kasha and Marla Slavner will fly out from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in March, for six months of filming around the globe, searching […]
Beach filmmaker to make documentary debut at Fox
When Beach Hill filmmaker Nathaniel Fox-Pappas started his latest project, TAGER, his subject was just a streetcar ride away. But in the studio of sculptor, painter, actor, voice actor and poet Aron Tager, Fox-Pappas found another world. “It’s like stumbling into Narnia when you go into his house,” Fox-Pappas says. “Every single wall is covered […]
Doors Open to Beach landmarks
Several local venues will be taking part in the 14th annual Doors Open on the weekend of May 25 and 26. The annual city-wide event gives the public an opportunity to visit over 150 architecturally or historically significant buildings that are normally off-limits, opened only on a limited basis, or charge admission. In the East […]
1942: Spies, saboteurs and swing music
All the day long whether rain or shine She’s part of the assembly line She’s making history Working for victory Rosie the Riveter Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage Sitting up there on the fuselage – From the song Rosie the Riveter, 1942 Everything seemed to be coming up ‘Rosie’ for the series Bomb Girls […]
