Psst… We’re going to let you in on a secret. A new, inspirational 3km race is planned for cities across Canada, and its roots are right here in the Beach. The inaugural Secret Marathon launches Wednesday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. at the Beaches Running Room on Queen Street East, as well as nine other […]
Thank you to everyone who entered our 2018 Winter Writing Contest. This year, we asked you to tell us about “the best gift you’ve ever received” — and you delivered. There were many standout entries, but Evelyn Barsby’s unique and special story, “My Balloon” is our overall winner. Michael Hume’s funny and inspiring story, “Best […]
The third annual Cold Weather Blues Fest takes over Beach venues this weekend, Feb. 23 and 24. The community-organized showcase features more than a dozen bands in more than a dozen Beach bars for two nights of pure blues. Here are some of the confirmed acts: On Friday, Feb. 23 Paul James is at the […]
Journeys, a group exhibition showcasing the work of over 20 artists from the Beach and surrounding area will be showing at Gerrard Art Space, 1475 Gerrard St. E., beginning Feb. 21. The exhibition of contemporary experimental is the product of participants in the space’s weekly “Just Do It” experimental painting program, designed to guide artists […]
Seven years ago when Alex Wilson and Alan Johnston founded their building company Anex, it was a more utilitarian venture than it is today. “Our main focus was furniture at first,” said Wilson. “And then that switched to custom everything.” That everything has come to include 12-foot-tall hands, the reconstruction of a full-grown tree […]
“It’s a music house, man,” said Erik Laar, hanging out in the two-storey home he owns on Coxwell Avenue, just south of Gerrard Street East. Laar doesn’t just mean music is played here (on this afternoon he nods along to a selection of instrumental hip-hop beats). It is the home of his venture Off Centre […]
Gerrard Art Space, 1475 Gerrard St. E., is transformed into a crime scene later this month with Mortar and Pestle Productions’ presentation of The Drowning Girls. Based on the true story of “The Brides in the Bath” murders, the play is written by Canadian playwrights Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson and Daniela Vlaskalic. The local production […]
Yellow House Gallery presents Ab Intra: From Within, the third exhibition of artwork by Grade 12 Notre Dame High School students. The weekend show is a formative experience for the students and an opportunity to showcase their work ahead of graduation at a professional gallery, Yellow House on Kingston Road. “It is our third time […]
Title: The Season Author: Ted Schmidt 109 pages Reviewed by Tony Curcio Former Neil McNeil High School teacher and Beach resident Ted Schmidt has written a unique coaching book to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of a legendary team he coached just before he landed at Neil McNeil. Here’s the back story. Just over fifty […]
For years, James Krauter had been photographing dogs in Monarch Park near his home, but it never occurred to him to publish his candid canine shots. That is until another dog park-goer approached him in 2012. “Somebody said, ‘You know, you take all these pictures of dogs, why don’t you make a calendar or something,’” […]
