The Top Casinos In and Around Toronto From Emori Media, Special to TorontoMoon.ca Agreed that no one can ever mistake Toronto for gambling havens like Macau and Las Vegas, however, that doesn’t imply that we don’t have an interesting high-stakes nightlife here! Actually, keeping in mind the population and size of Toronto as well as…
By John Adams, Special to TorontoMoon.ca The residents of Montreal have no problem in telling people just how amazing their city is, especially if they happen to be speaking to someone from Toronto. One area that the people of Montreal can take pride in is their city’s thriving gambling sector. The Casino de Montreal is…
Special to TorontoMoon.ca from Emori Media Sometimes being a tourist in a large city may be overwhelming, especially when you don’t have much time to visit everything. Toronto is the largest city in Canada by population and one of the main choices for people who plan a trip to this country. There are numerous things…
\ PETERBOROUGH \ There aren’t many of his kind left —but then, they never made many of his kind to begin with. Joe Hall, who passed away on Friday March 22 at 71 years of age after battling liver cancer for some time, was an highly original titan of a songwriter and performer whose cheeky,…
If you want to get into the festive spirit there are plenty of online places to go to find Christmas tunes. For me, the ones that are most interesting are the original compositions and I’ve put together a shortlist of a few you might want to check out. Before I get into that, just a…
\ By Digital Content Zone correspondent \ Often labelled as a “festival city,” Toronto has a lot going on throughout the year to keep the locals and visitors occupied with arts, crafts, music, and other family-friendly activities. A beautiful and picturesque city, the capital of Ontario has the perfect location next to Lake Ontario with…
\ TO CENTRAL/WEST \ As regular readers will know, every year for the past decade or so I have made a point of including listings from the annual Canadian National Exhibition, which runs from tonight till Labour Day, in our calendar of shows. Although the headline acts don’t need the extra publicity, the Ex has…
It was a sad day for many of us who knew songwriter Ted Rusk when we learned of his passing on June 7, two weeks after suffering a massive coronary. While no formal public funeral was subsequently held, his family and several close friends and band mates from The Great Canadian Swampstompers are planning a…
\ TO WEST \ Musicians and their fans in the Junction area are calling on people to boycott performing at or patronizing longtime live music venue Axis Gallery & Grill after a band’s show was cancelled with no compensation upon their arrival at the bar last Saturday night. It’s the latest in a series of…
\ TO CENTRAL \ How much of a priority is Toronto City Council’s Music Industry Advisory Council to its 36 members? Not much of one based on what happened —or rather what didn’t happen— at the Wednesday, February 7 meeting of the body, comprised of six city councillors and 31 “representatives” of the local music…
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Musician, radio host and music promoter Zest learned first-hand touring northern Ontario and playing in bars how the impact of oppression of indigenous peoples affects everyday life. And it’s that memory, combined with inspiration from a painting of the late Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack by London, Ontario visual artist Cynthia Mackenzie, that prompted…
Musicians can’t rely on Facebook or Twitter to really get the word out for their gigs and fans are missing out on a lot of shows they’d love because of social media algorithms that limit who sees what and when. Being a subscriber to TorontoMoon.ca guarantees gigs will be listed and seen by other…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ It doesn’t matter if you are a guitar teacher with two students living in small town Ontario, a lead guitar player in a local bar band in a big city like Toronto or if you just won a Juno last week for playing forty years of Heavy Metal…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ In celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary, I have put together a list of songs that mention Canada in their lyrics and that are written and sung by Canadians. It is fascinating to note that many classic songs that mention the actual word “Canada” were in fact penned by…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ I have murder on mind lately, not because I particularly feel like killing anyone, but because I ran across a YouTube video of an Alfred Hitchcock album I used to love as a ten-year old called Alfred Hitchcock Presents Music to Be Murdered By. This wonderful 1958 novelty…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been on my mind a lot lately, not just because I have been a fan of Margaret Atwood’s brilliant dystopian novel since I first reviewed it in 1985, but mainly because I am sitting, where I sit every day, in one of the skeletal…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ For me, the penultimate artifact at the Horseshoe Tavern was the Perfumatic machine that was a permanent fixture in the cavernous Women’s washroom located in the basement —second only to the condom machine in the Men’s room, which I have never seen. The Perfumatic was a suitcase sized…
\ By Donna Lypchuk for TorontoMoon.ca \ The news on “the longest street” is that the Hard Rock Café at Dundas Square (279 Yonge Street) is closing at the end of May 2017. This is not that much of a heart-wrenching handwringer for those of us who barely cared in the first place when it…
