Transformed AGO reopens today
Toronto art lovers are set to celebrate as the newly-designed Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) re-opens today (Nov. 14) following a 13-month closure. One of the largest art museums in North America, for the past…
Arts & Life
Women SOAR to success
A Scarborough based program is targeting single mothers to help them find work and assess their employability skills. However, the YWCA SOAR program is unable to provide daycare facilities for these mothers who are attending…
Silent Auction for Scarborough Women’s Centre
Bianca Bannister had thought of something nobody else had in order to win the vodka toss at a recent afternoon silent auction to raise money for a local women’s centre.
Juno-nominated songstress captures east Scarborough
Transcending the confines of what is considered conventional jazz, singer/songwriter/pianist Elizabeth Shepherd, 32, manages to captivate many with her enthralling original tunes.
Santa? It’s the same old laugh
Going from a role as an evil criminal to Santa Claus is easier than you think, says Len Henderson. He is the lead actor in the Norm Foster comedy Dear Santa, running from Nov. 27…
Ravina Project shines a light on solar potential
When Gordon Fraser and his wife Susan discussed energy reliability for their 1920s Riverdale home, she recalled the large blackout in August of 2003. “What if something like that happens in the winter? We would…
Prostate cancer fundraiser gains ‘Mo-mentum’
Ewan Dunderdale thought that at 36-years-old he would be able to grow a decent moustache. He was wrong. After an entire month of not shaving, the wispy hairs covered his face in a pre-pubescent sort…
Sound of ‘Passchendaele’ has Ontario roots
It’s thousands of kilometres and 91 years removed from the actual battlefield, but the sounds of “Passchendaele,” the movie, came from small town Ontario. Andy Malcolm calls himself a “foley artist.” Foley involves examining the…
Gypsy travels into Scarborough
With less than a week to go until opening night, Heidi Michelle Thomas is starting to feel the crunch. Since getting the part of the mother, Rose, in Scarborough Village Theatre’s production of Gypsy (opening…
Mothers make noise against gun violence
Toronto’s latest weekend of gun violence has hit home for Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere. The anti-violence group gathered Sunday at Nathan Phillips Square to plead for an end to the cycle of shootings that…