Arts

Detective William Murdoch has found a home in the U.S. on Ovation, America’s only arts network, which has launched his popular mystery series as The Artful Detective. All seven seasons of the one-hour drama (96 episodes) have been acquired by ...

Andrea-Jo Wilson — One of the world’s most provocative contemporary artists, Ai Weiwei, will join Art Gallery of Ontario visitors for a live video chat with the AGO’s director and CEO, Matthew Teitelbaum, during the Gallery’s popular First Thursdays art ...

Berczy Park behind the Flatiron Building (Front, Wellington and Church Sts) has a very confusing sounding name which over the years I have heard pronounced a few different ways, including Bear-ski, Bear-tzee and Berk-see. However one of the men responsible ...

David White – “Wine one is a white wine. It’s clear, star-bright, and there’s no evidence of gas or flocculation.” Some movies rely on grand battles and epic fight scenes to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. “Somm,” ...

Dennis Hanagan – Gino Berti of Cabbagetown danced in CATS at Massey Hall 25 years ago—and now he’s choreographer of that same musical showing at the Panasonic Theatre. Berti turned out in fit form on a sunny June afternoon on ...

This past spring I made a first time visit to Venice, partly with the hope of finding some of Toronto’s lost architectural heritage. After years of reading and writing about how the Venetians of 500 years ago influenced some of ...

Eric Morse – Multilingual actress and Leslieville resident Cristina Rosati is making an impression in roles that take advantage of her background growing up in an Italian family in Montreal. She grew up speaking Italian as a mother tongue, but ...

Up until the late 19th century nearly all stage actors spoke their lines directly to the audience rather than to the other actors on stage and in most cases in an overly dramatic and bombastic style of acting that early ...

Dennis Hanagan – Ryerson students have started a study of Queen St. E. in Riverside from the Don River to DeGrassi St. hoping it’ll lead to the area being designated an official city heritage conservation district (HCD) to preserve its ...

Eric Morse – A state secret of parkette planning was revealed at a May 14 community consultation on Clover Hill park chaired by councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam. It’s apparently the same secret as successfully dressing for dinner: put on all your ...