Arts

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Motorhead’s passion makes a motor mentor

Kimberly Spice —  Ginny Allen has loved riding motorcycles for years with not one accident to date and she attributes her success through her diligence in education. “I’m knocking on wood right now,” Allen told The Bulletin. “I’ve never had ...

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Our columnist designed Pierre Trudeau’s pool

Eric Morse — Stig Harvor, a retired architect and regular columnist in The Bulletin, recently made the national media in the course of discussions around the need to renovate the Prime Minister’s official residence and swimming pool at 24 Sussex ...

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James Austin avoided the hangman, then became rich

James Austin was one of the more fascinating characters of early Toronto and the legacy he left us is still very much a part of our city’s landscape both with the buildings and the institutions he left behind. James arrived ...

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Rebecca Liddiard leads at Tarragon playing role of a teenager

St. Lawrence Neighbourhood resident Rebecca Liddiard will be on stage this month in the lead role playing teenager Thai in Mustard, a new work by Kat Sandler, at the Tarragon Theatre from Feb. 10 to March 13. The play is ...

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City Hall to become live music venue twice a month

John Gosgnach — Mayor John Tory was joined in the City Hall Rotunda by Kevin Barnes, executive of sponsor TD Bank Group to help launch the new Live from City Hall music series. The launch event featured performances by Toronto ...

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Big-Band Gospel Project premieres in TO this February

Sue Edworthy — The Big Band Gospel Project unveils its Toronto premiere this February. Featuring the Toronto Jazz Orchestra and the Toronto Mass Choir, the Big Band Gospel Project combines the two distinct styles of gospel and big band into ...

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Bandleader Howard Cable still in the spotlight after 70 years

All stories have an ending, but it doesn’t seem right that a story about Canadian composer and one-time big-band leader Howard Cable should have an ending. He’s got too much to tell. With more than seven decades on the Canadian ...

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Well-travelled Cabbagetown author turns experience to tales

Eric Morse — For Cabbagetown fiction author Eric Murphy, who launched his second juvenile work Dead Man’s Boot at Ben McNally books on Nov. 18, fiction writing came later in life. Life began with a double major in political science ...

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PAL hosts launch of Devil’s Party by Bob Rogers 

Marion Lewis — Please join author Bob Rodgers and his friends, the surviving members of the cultural literati of the ’60s and ’70s, as we celebrate his work of fiction titled The Devil’s Party. In the Devil’s Party writer Bob ...

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Spectacular lighted wall adorns Eastern Avenue at Sumach

Paulette Touby — When Waterfront Toronto was looking for locations for art installations in the West Donlands they settled on the corner of Eastern Avenue at Sumach. Why? Because it is the site of the home of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn. ...

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