The Canadian Opera Company is marketing itself as an affordable night out for students with $20 tickets, the TSO with $12 tickets. With a date night at the movies easily costing over thirty dollars, a night of culture is an attractive change from the latest cookie-cutter Hollywood flick. “We’re trying to bring younger people into…

“I feel an artist should be beyond politics.” Thus spoke Sergei Prokofiev, a man considered to be one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers. Yet as a new documentary produced by Toronto-based filmmaker Yosif Feyginberg shows, politics were never in the background of Prokofiev’s rich and fascinating life. The film is the first biography of…

You probably don't recognize his name, but you will soon be seeing some of his works on the first floor at Robarts library. Carl Kohler (1919-2006) is not known by many outside his native Sweden, but this is something his children, Henry and Frida, hope to change. In the last few years, they have been…

It's been 40 years since Beatles legend John Lennon and his avant-garde artist wife Yoko Ono held their Bed-In for Peace in Montreal.

King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, one of the most highly anticipated exhibits to hit Toronto, opened on Nov. 24 at the AGO, its only Canadian venue. The exhibit introduces museum-goers to the culture behind the mummies and pyramids.

Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire thunders with misery and every deprivation under the sun. But that doesn't stop you from secretly hoping that Clarice Precious Jones, the film's impossible-not-to-love title character, will somehow triumph in a fairytale ending. She doesn't, and this is what makes the film so powerful. When the film…

The creators behind the wildly successful Beatles tribute, Abby Road, introduce their latest project, Brasil. Under the artistic direction of founder Andrew Burashko, the Art of Time Ensemble - known for its contemporary twists on classic music - will present a show featuring three musical perspectives on this rhythmically abundant South American nation. The eclectic…

Nothing can ruin a Christmas music buzz like eight consecutive years of working in holiday retail. I have consequently become notoriously picky with my seasonal tunes. Here's a sampling of some songs I can still tolerate: 1. Christmas Wrapping The Waitresses The horns make me need to dance. And the rest comes close to (rhythmically…

Schiffon, eyeliner, tight pants, and colourful dresses are scattered around inside the Betty Oliphant Theatre at the final dress rehearsal for the St. Michael's College production of broadway classic, West Side Story. Actors run through lines and orchestra members practise the show's musical score, before a row of dresses lowers onto the stage re-creating the…

Bam. Devo. Fuck, what a lovely opportunity to see a classic band play two of their classic albums, and a lovely way to spruce up a Monday and Tuesay - two notoriously shitty days. First up on Monday was Q: Are We Not Men A: We are Devo! The Brian Eno-produced record is an absolute…

The Faculty of Architecture is a little outside most students' daily campus route, but this month, their exhibit “Themes and Variations,” featuring work by Alberta architect Jeremy Sturgess, just might attract the curious and architecturally-inclined to the building's Eric Arthur Gallery.

Toronto is one of the world’s most multicultural cities and no stranger to the variety of experiences surrounding immigration. Many of us have an innate understanding of what it means to feel simultaneously at home and displaced. It is only fitting, then, that U of T Faculty of Music Professor and Toronto composer Christos Hatzis’s…