Arts

Eric Morse – The Forsythia Festival has had something of a gentle growth spurt this year. Since it was founding in 1971 by the late Tony Braden, an enthusiastic Cabbagetowner—the festival has been an unassuming neighbourhood happening not widely known ...

Kimberly Spice – Form, grace, prowess and strength are the norm for dancers and one particular dancer Aleksandar Antonijevic, recently turned photographer,has been able to capture these athletes at their best. Picking up the camera three years ago, the Broadview ...

Richard Holt – Distillery District resident Aaron Jensen is already an internationally published composer, arranger and performer— and now he can add the title of artistic director for this year’s SING! vocal arts festival at Harbourfront Centre. He is clearly ...

Kimberly Spice – Michael Caldwell had a change of heart while attending his first year at the University of Toronto. He was studying to become a museum curator when he dropped out— after just his first semester in the master’s ...

On the morning of Jan. 22, 1901 the world awoke to some shocking but inevitable news: Queen Victoria, after reigning over a vast empire which included Canada for the past 64 years, was dead. During her reign Toronto had grown ...

A grassroots project to improve Riverdale Park has failed to take root this year, according to the project’s organizer. As reported in the Dec. 2010 edition of The Bulletin, Randy Brown of Cabbagetown Art and Crafts was spearheading a project ...

The 97-year-old Shaw St. school that’s been vacant for the past 10 years in the Trinity-Bellwoods community is being renovated to re-open next fall as Downtown’s largest arts and cultural centre west of Spadina Ave. It’ll be called Artscape YOUNGplace, ...

I was really sorry to see that the Nicholas Hoare bookstore on Front Street with its old world look, creaky wooden floors and well-stacked shelves has closed. But I’m not surprised because bookstores seem to be going the way of ...

The very big, very bright spotlight is on. The mike stands alone, except for a single stool, on which you will place your beer glass, for this is stand-up comedy, so you… stand up. You are one of eight or ...

Commffest, the global community film festival that makes its home in the Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) and the area immediately around the St. Lawrence Market, entered its seventh year of existence. The documentary film festival tries to make a difference ...