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Toronto Star
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Toronto Star
When Toronto loses a public event like Taste of the Danforth, it loses more than just a street festival
My band Rheostatics played Taste of the Danforth before the festival shuttered in 2023. For us, it was a riotous show. Kids across the street from the stage were dancing on low-rise apartment rooftops despite officials trying to wave them down. We had a running dialogue with the kids during our set; we called one of them Zeus and another Dionysus, and we listened as they shouted in response. The show was loud, the pavement was hot and everybody was unclasped in the way Torontonians are when they forget for a moment that they're in Toronto. A sea of bodies had transformed the neighbourhood, and just as we wrapped up, a traditional Greek band started playing two tents away. We drank beer and ate gyros to celebrate. There was a time when Taste of the Danforth, recently cancelled again this year, was a red dot on Toronto summer calendars: free to attend, with delicious food and drink and clever musical programming on offer. A relatively sober urban strip would become a bustling quasi-European thoroughfare; you'd see elders among the teens, interlopers from the west end making their annual pilgrimage to the east.
Toronto Star
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Toronto Star
Ping pong, waffles and unassuming NHLers. An inside look at life in Team Canada's hotel for the world hockey championship
Hockey Players, coaches and GMs at the IIHF men's world hockey championship don't hide. That includes Sidney Crosby, just some dude on a nearby park bench. Updated 2 hrs ago May 12, 2025 5 min read Save By Dave Bidini Special to the Star STOCKHOLM—One of the alluring features of the IIHF men's world hockey championship is that players, coaches and general managers can't, or rather don't, hide. In the hotel where we're staying near the Centrale metro station I ran into Team Canada assistant coach Andrew Brunette, the still-employed and good-natured head coach of the maligned Nashville Predators, near the waffle station at breakfast. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Dave Bidini is the publisher of the West End Phoenix, author of 13 books and the co-founder of Rheostatics Related Stories A visit to Stockholm shows what the world hockey championship is all about Fleury shines, Canada routs Latvia 7-1 at world men's hockey championship 2025 IIHF world men's hockey championship schedule and Canadian roster Report an error Journalistic Standards About The Star More from The Star & partners
