By Emily Dontsos
If master pianist Anton Kuerti’s spectacular opening night performance for the Toronto Summer Music Festival on July 20 is any indication of what to expect from the festival’s 12 remaining concerts, then classical music lovers are in for a treat.
Held at the architecturally and acoustically astounding new Koerner Hall in The Royal Conservatory [...]

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By Brendan Hair
On July 17 and 18 The Theatre Centre in partnership with Cooking Fire Theatre Festival will be presenting a public napping project called Z’s by the C.
At this event residents can craft their own sleeping mask and have a sweet dream or catch up on lost sleep from the hectic work week.
The project, [...]

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By Min Kang
Mayor David Miller has officially proclaimed July 12 to 18th  Mad Pride Week.
“It’s throwing the word back in the face of the general public who think mad is a horrible kind of state to be in, so we throw it back into the face of society, just like gays throw queer back, and [...]

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By Karen Bliss
More than 2,500 artists applied for a spot at the 2010 North By Northeast music festival, which takes place all over the city from June 14 to 20, so the 650 bands and solo acts that were accepted have obviously been given the thumbs up from the organizers.
“We have a jury that goes [...]

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Courtesy: Lily Barnes

By Emily Landau
To outside eyes, Lilly Barnes may be a woman of the world, but her world ends in the Annex.
“My kids tease me—they say I act as if I get a nosebleed north of Dupont,” she chuckles. Barnes has lived in the Annex for almost six decades, where she has thrived [...]

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