Luminato Festival

by Ivana Markotic
How many former Yugoslavians can you fit into Yonge-Dundas Square? Apparently, more than 1,000. On Friday June 12th, Serbians, Bosnians, Croatians and other curious spectators occupied Yonge-Dundas Square for Day 7 of the Luminato Festival for a free performance by legendary Yugoslavian rock star Goran Bregovic and his band, The Wedding and Funeral Band. read more...

WHAT TO DO IN JUNE

How is it half-way through May already? Is anyone else experiencing a significant feeling of whiplash? Summer has it's sea-legs back and is off to an awesome start-so it's time to plan ahead. After all, June will be here faster than you can say SPF 40, and you don't want to miss any of the great events, concerts, and more happening all over the city. We present to you a She Does The City Cheat Sheet for June, so you can make sure you're where you want to be, all month long. read more...

By Heather Christie 

The life of Edgar Allan Poe in a lot of ways seems ripe for wallowing in tragedy and hitting a bottle of gin (or laudanum, as the case may have been in the 19th century—GOD I miss those days!)  But this year at Luminato, Jonathan Christenson has something a little more light-hearted in store.  On tonight and for the next couple of days, Christenson and the folks of Catalyst Theatre are putting on a show about the life of that most infamously ill-fated writer with their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks.  read more...

By Heather Christie

Setting music to time-honoured pieces of history and literature—though the butt of countless sweater-set-cat-lady jokes—is quite a staple in the creative world, why else would flocks of blue-rinse biddies and burly British bros alike make the pilgrimage to London’s West End for the past 20-odd years to see those musical mammoths Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera?   read more...