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Toronto author Brian Francis’ novel “Fruit” is being adapted into an animated series

posted Friday, January 28, 2022

by: in Books

Toronto production company Hawkeye Pictures and Ottawa’s Big Jump Entertainment are developing Brian Francis’s novel Fruit as an animated series. The novel was the runner-up for CBC’s Canada Reads in 2009. Set in 1984, Fruit follows the awkward misadventures of fat-and-fabulous 13-year-old Peter Paddington as he navigates life as a total outsider. Bullied everywhere, Peter […]

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Still More Stubborn Stars – a story that reflects on traditional Acadian culture in a modern world

posted Tuesday, January 25, 2022

by: in Books

STILL MORE STUBBORN STARS follows the story of Roger, a hapless but enthusiastic Come-from-Away who, arriving in Prince Edward Island with his family as a child, struggles to figure out the ‘Island’ way of life.Roger eventually rises to power, founding the sprawling Acadian Culture Centre in rural western PEI. Here he becomes an impresario of Acadian kitsch and a catalyst of […]

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David Sedaris is back with “A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)”

posted Saturday, January 22, 2022

by: in Books

There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it. After his best selling, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, he’s back with a follow up, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020). If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly […]

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club – lesbian teen love in 1950s America

posted Friday, January 21, 2022

by: in Books

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.But America in 1954 is not a […]

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The Story of My Life – how one intersex non-binary individual struggles for acceptance

posted Monday, January 17, 2022

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It’s not easy “choosing not to choose,” especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007. Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal about it. Then Corey’s dad dies suddenly. Now Corey’s disapproving mother wants Corey to “pick a side”. Corey’s old enough to say no to medical intervention—but not […]

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The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond Reason That She Could Fly

posted Saturday, January 15, 2022

by: in Books

The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond Reason That She Could Fly is a visionary young-adult illustrated novel about Eggs, a homeless girl who knows how to fly. In a rusted unnamed city full of five-dollar hotels and flea markets, a young homeless girl named Eggs is trying to make her way in the world. She’s […]

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This winter calls for red…wine that is! Try these three to keep your spirits warm

posted Friday, January 14, 2022

by: in Hospitality (Food & Beverage)

Brrr, baby it’s cold outside. I know it’s January, whom some like to refer to as Dry January. A time when they take a month away from (over) indulging the month before with all the holiday festivities. I get it, but why can’t we just be more selective in our indulgence? With the pandemic still […]

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Vegan Travel Association – Travelling in a New Vegan World Summit, January 14 to 31, 2022

posted Thursday, January 13, 2022

by: in Travel

The Vegan Travel Association (VTA) will be holding their second annual Travelling in a New Vegan World Summit (#NVW22) virtual event taking place over 17 days, January 14th – 31st, 2022, and it’s free to participate! The Vegan Travel Association is a collective of travel professionals who support travellers and travel businesses from all over […]

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High-Risk Homosexual – memoir looks at being gay and Latinx in a machismo world

posted Tuesday, January 11, 2022

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A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse […]

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Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes

posted Monday, January 10, 2022

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DAMN SHAME: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is funny, moving, bawdy, and powerful. Written by 62-year-old actor, erotic provocateur and anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sexuality advocate David Pevsner. Over the course of his 40-year career in show business, he has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and numerous TV network shows […]

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