Catherine Romano’s monthly column examines the rich underground dance scenes in Toronto. Covering performances, events and parties, Stage RIGHT offers a peek into dynamic subcultures through engaging interviews, observations and photographs. WHAT Bang The Party WHERE The Drake Underground WHEN April 2012 A mix of a Brazilian drum performance and street dance cipher, with a [...]

On a recent visit to The Chalmers House, the Ontario branch of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), I was surprised to find that what I imagined would a be stuffy archive is much more than a library of scores and CDs of Canadian compositions. That evening the winding Victorian heritage building was host to a [...]

A guest post by Line Abrahamian. Thanks to Ryan Millward for allowing us to use his excellent photographs. *               *             * Somebody, quick, get me a guitar! At this very moment, 10:15 PM Friday night, at Shift Space in downtown Montreal, rock [...]

Dressing professionally in the warm days of spring and summer can be really confusing. Bold colour or standard black/grey? How short should your skirts and dresses be? Are shorts and sandals ever appropriate? When dressing to meet clients or collaborators, we want to strike the perfect chord between expressing our personality and creativity through our [...]

Daniel Zomparelli’s debut collection of poems, Davie Street Translations, has all the high-octane things we love in poetry: sex, booze, drugs, Beyoncé, gyms. There’s danger and excitement, fear and laughter, camp and heartbreak. In disarming ways he transitions from funny to sad to sweet to harsh to funny and sad again, sometimes within a single poem. He [...]

Catherine Romano’s monthly column examines the rich underground dance scenes in Toronto. Covering performances, events and parties, Stage RIGHT offers a peek into dynamic subcultures through engaging interviews, observations and photographs.  What: Decentralized Dance Party  Where: Union Station, Toronto When: February 2012   Boom boxes, banana costumes, ’80s wardrobe and a mandate to dance your [...]

It was still quite quiet when I found myself at Sneaky Dee’s. There were just a few knots of people – even a young pair on an adorably awkward first date – perched on barstools and chatting, waiting of the Young Lions Club showcase to begin. I had originally drafted an ambitious and geographically broad [...]

I interview a wide range of women who work in the music industry for Girls Don’t Like Metal, from music journalists and publicists to academics and, of course, musicians. This week, I had the opportunity to talk to the lovely and talented Rae Amitay, a unique interview subject, in that she embodies several of the [...]

  As a professional consultant, I work with productions and businesses to create publicity and find their influencers. Influencers are people and/or brands that share similar values and have a large, loyal following or community that will spread your message to an audience you are not yet connected to. Lately, I’ve been working with businesses [...]