By AMANDA GIBB Toronto stand-up comedian Chris Locke is a semifinalist in the SiriusXM Top Comic Competition, and is currently vying for Canadian votes to make it to the finals. The Top Comic Competition is Canada’s biggest comedy competition, featuring stand-up comics from across the country. Right now Locke is competing against 17 others. The […]
Crazy Rich Asians will be screened tonight (Wednesday, Aug. 28) at Movie Nights In The Park at Kew Gardens. This film will be the final one of the summer for the outdoor movie series that has been taking place on Wednesday nights since the beginning of July. The movies are presented by the Beach Village’s […]
The Danforth Rocks Summer Music Series at Stephenson Park wraps up with its final concert of the season on Wednesday, Aug. 28. Performing will be The Stephen Stanley Band. The featured brewery will be Eastbound Brewing Company. Danforth Rocks will take place between 6 and 9 p.m. at the park, which is located at 61 […]
By AMANDA GIBB Author and actor David Menear is releasing a literary fiction short story collection called Swallows Playing Chicken this fall. Menear, 65, is noted for his other works including One Dead Tree and a handful of short stories published on various platforms such as The Danforth Review. “I haven’t been writing long at […]
David Leask will wrap up this summer’s Music In The Park afternoon concert series on Sunday, Aug. 25 at Kew Gardens. Presented on Sunday afternoons throughout the summer by the Beach Village BIA, the concerts featured a variety of musicians and musical styles in performance at the park’s Alex Christie Bandshell. Leask’s concert takes place […]
By BERNIE FLETCHER What scares you? Horror films are popular these days, but zombies and monsters and demon clowns don’t do much for me. What is really frightening is the oppressive society of a dystopian future in the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale from the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood. Fans of the horror genre […]
The Beach Village’s BIA’s summer Movie Nights In The Park series continues tonight (Wednesday, Aug. 21) with a screening of First Man. The screening takes place in Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen St. E., and is slated to start at dusk, approximately 8 p.m. First Man tells the story of American astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was […]
The Danforth Rocks Summer Music Series at Stephenson Park continues this Wednesday, Aug. 21, evening with a performance by Little Magic Sam. In its third year, Danforth Rocks is presented by the Danforth Village BIA and features live music, food and drink, and local merchants coming together for a community celebration in Stephenson Park, 61 […]
The Beach Village BIA’s Music In The Park series’ presents its final two concerts at Kew Gardens with pair of performers slated. Whiskey Jack will perform the stories and songs of Stompin’ Tom Connors on Sunday, Aug. 18, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kew Gardens Bandshell. The final concert of the series is […]
The Canadian National Exhibition’s annual Rising Star Talent Competition will include a pair of competitors from the Beach area. The 2019 version of The Ex opened on Friday, Aug. 16 and continues until Labour Day (Monday, Sept. 2). The Rising Star competition, in its 33rd year, showcases young artists in variety of genres as they […]
