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The Top Casinos In and Around Toronto

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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…

Could Toronto benefit from a super casino?

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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…

Top 5 exciting things to do in Toronto as a tourist

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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…

Death of Joe Hall leaves empty space on Canadian music scene

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\ 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,…

Toronto’s top music festivals

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\ 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…

Let’s NOT go to The Ex!

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\ 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…

The evil of Axis prompts stiffed musicians to call for boycott

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\ 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…

Lack of interest scuttles Music Industry Advisory Council meeting

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\ 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…

You can’t rely on social media alone to promote your shows

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You can’t rely on social media to get the word out for your gigs!  Algorithms employed by Facebook, Twitter and others mean only a fraction of your “audience” actually sees your posts. Being a subscriber to TorontoMoon.ca guarantees your gigs will be listed and seen by other paying subscribers, with a live link to your…

A chance to #DoSomething meaningful on Twitter inspired by Gord Downie —a “ReconciliAction” to make a difference

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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…

Got those Algorithm Blues?

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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…

THE SCRATCHY NEEDLE 007: Best Campfire Songs

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\ 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…

THE SCRATCHY NEEDLE 005: Music to Murder By

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\ 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…

The Scratchy Needle 004: Living The Handmaid’s Tale Dream

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\ 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…