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Episode 15 - January 30, 2009

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Blair
on February 4, 2009
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It’s been a while since we’ve had a chance to put up a new post, but finally, here it is - the first episode of 2009!

Katherine and I took to the cold last Friday night to witness the first performance of the new Close Act show titled PI-LEAU. Close Act has been in Toronto before a few years ago with another show, but they out did themselves with this underwater exploration and struggle between good and evil. The show opened the 14 day festival, WinterCity - a favourite among Torontonians at this time of year.

Not only does the city embrace the cold and snow for these two weeks, we also gorge ourselves on food during Winterlicious. Many restaurants book up quickly so if you want to take advantage of some of the amazing world-class cuisine Toronto has to offer at affordable prices, best to book now!

What are your thoughts on WinterCity? Do you embrace the cold, or hibernate for 6 months?

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Epsiode 8 - August 12, 2008

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on August 13, 2008
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Have you missed us Toronto?! While it seems like forever since we’ve been on the air (well, it does for us) - we’re back! Katherine has moved into her new abode in the West end and I’m … well, still here. I was in Montreal for a few days over the long weekend, but I digress.

Last night we took to Queen St. West to partake in this years Summerworks Festival. We began our night at the Gladstone Hotel with 7 mini shows (we saw 3 of them) - all of which are under 15 minutes max. The shows take place in some of the rooms on the 2nd floor of the Gladstone which makes for some very intimate and interesting theatre - definitely worth checking out, in my opinion. AND, it’s PWYC (Pay-What-You-Can) … so for only $5 you could go see some really great new Canadian work!

Our next stop took us to the Factory Theatre where we took in the opening performance of Until June by Jane Maggs - a gritty new work about the relationship between two sisters. A great performance by the cast and wonderful writing by the relatively new Maggs.

Starving, Katherine and I headed west along Queen and grabbed a bite to eat at one of our favourite restaurants - Fresh, by Juice for Life. We gobbled down some delicious vegetarian food before heading over to our final destination of the night - The Theatre Centre - to take in some music and talk to Michael Rubenfeld, the Artistic Producer of the Summerworks Festival.

New to the festival this year is the Music Series - nightly performances by some great indie artists in Toronto including Matthew Barber, The Bicycles, Claire Jenkins as well as the two performers we saw, Julie Fader and Peter Elkas. Both performed great sets which we enjoyed thorougly. Sarah Harmer even made an appearance playing drums for Julie and we saw Ron Sexsmith in the audience!

At about 12:50am, we decided to call it quits as we were both exhausted and full to the brim of culture! It was an excellent evening. And thankfully, you too can still check out some of Summerworks as it’s on until August 17 (this coming Sunday)! Check out their website for more information on upcoming events …

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Photo taken of traffic on Queen St. West and Dovercourt by Katherine Grainger.

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Coming up this week …

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on July 2, 2008
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It’s the beginning of July and that can only mean one thing … that the Toronto Fringe Festival is kicking into high gear!

Katherine and the good folks of Cow Over Moon Children’s Theatre have a show in the festival called “The Three Magic Wishes” at the Palmerston Library. After the performance on Thursday afternoon, we’re going to go check out some of the sites and sounds of the Annex and run from venue to venue to find the next big show to come out of the festival!

If you’re around, be sure to find us in the beer tent at the Tranzac Club later on in the evening. If you’ve got a tip on a great show to check out, let us know!

See you there!