Kimberly Spice – As the population of Downtown Toronto grows the numbers of soccer clubs is also on the rise but finding field times that accommodate everyone is few and far between. Allocation to soccer fields by city is based ...
Read More »Regent Park music school director hopes to expand programs in 2015
Robin Careless – The Regent Park School of Music provides diverse and high-quality music education to at-risk youth. In the last year, over 1300 students ages 3 to 18 from “high-priority” neighbourhoods in Regent Park, Jane and Finch, and Parkdale ...
Read More »Pretty St. Lawrence lass to compete in hard-hitting Aussie Rules football cup
Heather Anne Walshe — In November of last year I was lucky enough to have been selected to play for the Canadian Aussie Rules team who will compete in the International Cup, IC14, in Melbourne, August 1-25. Having only taken ...
Read More »Union Station: wooden shed to Beaux-Arts beauty
Bruce Bell — For the past few years Union Station on Front Street has been shrouded in white plastic sheets like a massive present waiting to be opened. When that day comes (maybe next year?) the colossal train station will ...
Read More »Author turns mid-life issues into cathartic novel series after Nepal trip
Kimberly Spice — Talk to Elizabeth Highlanda year ago and she would never have believed she would become an author of two novels, which are loosely based on her own life called the chronicles of Elizabeth Highland, Volume I and ...
Read More »Local actor tries his luck with as producer of street craps project
Kimberly Spice – It was a natural progression for actor Matthew Bennett to start his own production company, Blue Rage Entertainment Inc., after 20 years in the business and to produce his own major motion picture, Straight Kill. Based in ...
Read More »His $1,000 started Toronto’s department-store heart
In 1802 Jordan Post upon his arrival from Connecticut purchased a tract on the south side of King Street from present-day Yonge over to Bay Street for the equivalent of $1,000 in today’s money. There, eventually, he would set up ...
Read More »New ‘Bloor Street Culture Corridor’ features 12 main players
Heather Kelly — Twelve Toronto arts and culture organizations have created the Bloor St. Culture Corridor, a uniquely Torontonian arts and culture destination. Toronto’s Bloor Street is a vibrant corridor with a dozen permanent world-class arts organizations presenting professional arts ...
Read More »Casting revealed for Theatre 20’s production of Company
Rosie Shaw — Theatre 20’s highly-anticipated production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company will play the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs from June 21 to July 13, 2014. This show has not been seen in Toronto in almost 30 years.Announced ...
Read More »If she presses her laugh button it’s funny
Kimberly Spice – A crucial step for comedian Allison Price in writing skits for a performance is the laugh factor. If the material makes her laugh then most likely others will enjoy it too but she and the Second City ...
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