Artist was fascinated by Yorkville and hippie culture By Joan Tadier It was 1967: the year of Expo in Montreal, the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury was in full swing. Love was in the air and flowers were in our hair. Yorkville Village was abuzz with music, hippies, Blow-Up, The Penny Farthing, The Purple Onion, the […]

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Joseph Bloore co-founded Village of Yorkville By Cole Burchell Nestled among the tall trees of Rosedale Valley lies the Necropolis Cemetery, home to the peaceful resting places of Jack Layton, William Lyon Mackenzie, and another headstone that also bears a familiar name, albeit with an additional “e.” Joseph Bloore, the namesake of the bustling street […]

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By Annemarie Brissenden In apartheid South Africa, Black Beauty was banned from bookshelves. With the words “black” and “beauty” in the title, it was seen as some kind of anti-government propaganda, even though “there are no black people in the book.” Set in nineteenth-century England “it is actually about a horse,” writes Ismé Bennie in […]

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Gildiner explores literature, memory, and the passage of time in final memoir By Annemarie Brissenden, With Coming Ashore, the third instalment of her memoirs about finding her own place in a tumultuous world, Catherine Gildiner brings her Bildungsroman trilogy to a close. On the surface, the narrative picks up Gildiner’s story as she departs her […]

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Funny business going on at Wiener’s Home Hardware By Nicola Kivell Howard Pressburger, a longtime Annex local, actor, and employee at Wiener’s Home Hardware, gets it. Especially when it comes to the imminent struggle and conflict between who we are and what we do. He also understands how to put an absurd and comedic twist […]

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By Samori Brown On Friday Oct. 12 faculty and students at the Waldorf Academy (250 Madison Avenue) celebrated the school’s 25th anniversary. Far from the single kindergarten class of its inception in 1987, the once small home school has since grown to include three more kindergarten classes and classes from grades one to eight – […]

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All proceeds to support children’s arts programs By Alex Zakrzewski Move over Ron Burgundy, Glenn Tooth is this town’s newest jazz flute virtuoso. Jazz flute virtuoso Glenn Tooth charmed the ears and the keys in support of a local children’s charity. On Oct. 13, Tooth headlined A Night of Jazz at 918, an event he […]

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James Brylowski, photographer and owner of the company Solid Porcupine Inc., showcased his work for the first time this May as part of Scotiabank’s 2012 CONTACT Photography Festival.

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Perlman is a young, up and coming Jazz musician who grew up in Toronto in the Kensington Area. She has performed for a number of years at the Toronto Jazz festival, and has a regular appearance on a Monday night at the Reservoir Lounge with her band, The Vipers.

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The clean-up, which occurred on Apr. 21, was organized with the assistance of the Harbord Village Residents’ Association (HVRA) ,and sponsored by 37 neighbourhood businesses, banks and restaurants, including Scotiabank, Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, Mirvish Productions, and Loire restaurant (119 Harbord St.), which hosted a catered after-party for participants.

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The monthly laugh-fest, For My Own Benefit, kicked-off at Parts & Labour (1566 Queen St. W.) in March, and had its second showing Apr. 25 at the Comedy Bar in the Bloor and Ossington area. The New Humourists are joined for each show by a rotating cast of other comedy players that has included acts like Personals, Mark Little of Picnicface, Anders Yates, Tony Ho, and host Dan Beirne of the side-splitter sitcom The Bitter End.

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On May 12, Bill King graciously celebrated his five decades as a professional musician with a performance evening at the Royal. His program of music, dance, and spoken word is based on the sounds and sensations of the old American South.

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