It’s hard not to become more aware —painfully so often— of the whirring by of time as we get older and as those we’ve loved or liked or partied or played with or whose talents we’ve enjoyed simply as spectators drop off the mortal plane one by one. Much sooner than most of us would…
\ SCARBOROUGH \ The weekly Sunday afternoon jam that the late Mike Murphy had been fronting for the past few months with his new band The Repairmen today will be a memorial to the affable and exquisitely talented guitar player that should see a panoply of excellent performers from Scarborough and beyond taking part. It…
\ SCARBOROUGH \ A visitation with the family and memorial service for the late Mike Murphy will be held on Sunday, October 1 in the facility in Pine Hills Cemetery where he used to love riding his bike, the family has announced. Visitation will take place from 10-11 a.m. in the building at 625 Birchmount…
UPDATE: Information about Mike’s funeral services and memorial jam as well as the memorial music endowment page set up by the family can be found in a separate post published and sent to subscribers Friday Sept. 29. \ SCARBOROUGH \ A Scarborough guitar player “with a heart of gold” will be spending eternity in his…
A different kind of Murphy’s Law in effect at Southside Johnny’s tonight \ETOBICOKE\ Most people are familiar with the axiom known as “Murphy’s Law”, which states: “If something can go wrong it will go wrong.” Regulars at Southside Johnny’s may think they’re already familiar with that catechism after seeing the operating style of a…
