In this romantic and challenging new work, innovative modern dance company La La La Human Steps fuses two iconic operas whose familiarity will allow audiences to create new and unpredictable stories through the pull and push of their own memories. Two tragic love stories will be united into one seamless ode through complex choreography, the alteration of balletic structures and the intertwining of choreographic, musical and cinematic strands that will create a sense of perceptual distortion and renewal.
Tickets range in price between $22- $99
Canadian Stage Box Office- 416.368.3110

www.canadianstage.com

A pair of abandoned Russian cosmonauts have been circling the globe for twenty years. Below, a couple confronts their failed marriage, a prostitute searches for love and a scientist struggles to make contact with outer space. The Cosmonaut follows several inter-related storylines as lovers and strangers attempt to connect across living rooms, countries and into outer orbit. This unexpectedly moving play examines the frailties of love, the nature of loneliness and our universal desire for contact.
Tickets range in price between $22- $99

Canadian Stage Box Office- 416.368.3110
www.canadianstage.com

A country singer and darling of Montreal’s seedy red-light district, Carmen triumphantly returns to her old haunts after a visit to Nashville to hone her craft. Doing away with bleedin’ hearts and lonesome nights, Carmen now sings about the people in her audience: hustlers and whores who for the first time become the heroes of these songs, not just the witless consumers. This mythic tale of a nightclub singer who dares make art from the lives of those on the fringes of society is a seminal play from Canada’s best-known playwright.

Tickets range in price between $22- $99
Canadian Stage Box Office- 416.368.3110

www.canadianstage.com

Ground-breaking Vancouver-based Electric Company Theatre presents a physically and visually explosive multimedia spectacle inspired by the life, work and ghosts of the father of modern cinema. In 1885, Eadweard Muybridge sets out to catalogue animal movement and human gestures, but he is haunted by the ghosts of his past and the rational scientist that he has attempted to become must face the naked animal that remains inside him. This spellbinding profile of the man who froze time explores themes of memory, identity, and the quest for meaning.

Tickets range in price between $22- $99
Canadian Stage Box Office- 416.368.3110

www.canadianstage.com

With this year’s line up of events, classes and activities just released a week ago, all signs are pointing to a record breaking attendance with over 30,000 expected. For the first time ever, the first class sold out in just 3 hours and already more VIP Platinum and Gold delegates have registered than in total last year.

For 3 days only, Friday to Sunday, the exhibit hall, infused with inspiration, is offering stunning displays, runway shows, demos, make ‘n takes, how-tos, meet & greets and more. Here you will find to-die-for fabrics, fibres, papers, beads, patterns, kits and must have notions, tools and equipment. In our Canadian Arctic Pavilion, discover the luxury of Qiviuk, the inner down of exceptional quality from the Muskox, an animal that survived the last ice age. Relax and sample the many fibres of Coats & Clark Canada, Westminster Fibers and Kertzer at their yarn tasting. And, watch fashion happen right before your eyes as student design teams race the clock to complete a winning design in their show floor studios for our Project Creativ Catwalk challenge.

There’s always something new to learn. Whether beginner or expert you can choose from more than 200 hands-on classes that will challenge you to explore and work with new mediums while indulging in the process of personal design and style. Get up-close-and-personal direction from industry experts and some of the world’s most recognized designers and artists. Joining us for the first time from Australia are embroidery design guru, Simon Haskins and doll artist, Kate Heaslip who will help you recreate yourself in a 6″ figurine. Katrina Witten from England brings the British countryside to life in her free-style embroidery mini landscapes and florals. From California and in Canada for the first time are both Lennie Honcoop, who pioneered the use of Hot Ribbon to embellish appliqué and Stephanie Kleinman, creator of the long running HGTV series Simply Quilts, now sharing her new Fabric Studio™ software. Did you know you can create your own fabric designs and either print them out on small fabric swatches right on your printer or send away for the yardage you want?

Enjoy techniques rich classes focusing on cards or scrapbook layouts from both Cathie Allan and Sarah Hodgkinson. Paula Lishman shares her “knit-woven” and “crochet-woven” techniques for eye-popping garments using her stunning and unique fur yarns. If felting is your area of interest, there’s none better from whom to get the scoop, than Gio and Norm Gaudet, whose incredible line of felted garments launched LG Fashion week in Toronto this year. Make a trendy pillow sham with Terry Edward Briceland, “that sewing guy” on Rooms that Rock and Divine Design or create reversible garments with Kathryn Brenne, who has over 70 articles published in magazines like Vogue Patterns, Threads and Sew Stylish. This is just a sampling of the hands-on workshops starting on Wednesday, October 20th before the show floor opens.

Many of the designers will also be on hand for you to meet inside the exhibit hall or be inspired by exhibitions of their work. Whether visiting the Festival exhibit hall for one day or treating yourself to a 5-day VIP experience you’ll find there’s something for everyone, even if you’ve never crafted before. You can save if you buy tickets or register for classes in advance. For more info call 1.800.291.2030 or log on to www.creativfestival.ca
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This modern multimedia fairy-tale from Canadian theatre visionary Robert Lepage explores questions of sexual identity, unfulfilled fantasies and a thirst for recognition and fame that are drawn from the life and writings of legendary storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. This one-man show employs Lepage’s trademark theatrical magic to tell the tale of a Québécois songwriter whose apparently prestigious engagement at the Paris Opera helps him to discover what defines, motivates and inspires him.

Tickets range in price between $22- $99
Canadian Stage Box Office- 416.368.3110

www.canadianstage.com

When a mysterious millionaire writes her a letter calling her the most beautiful girl in the city and vowing to marry her, Julia is outraged. Though they are strangers, Fernando is determined that his betrothed love him and is undeterred by her protestations. They marry, but when accusations of infidelity arise, both Julia and Fernando have to parse through the facts in an attempt to separate reality and fantasy. This bold metaphysical fable is an investigation of the nature of love, power, desire and reality.
Tickets range in price between $22- $99
Canadian Stage Box Office- 416.368.3110
www.canadianstage.com

Tickets available all Ticketmaster Outlets, the Air Canada Centre box office (no first day sales) or call 416-870-8000 to charge.

Tickets (incl. GST) $44.50 / $57.00/ 86.50 reserved seats

*A limited number of specially priced 4 packs available! (plus FMF and service charges)

145 Queen Street West (at University Avenue –Osgoode subway)- August 12 to September 5, 2010
Opening Night: Sunday, August 15 @ 7:30pm

Tuesday – Saturday @ 7:30pm • Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday @ 2pm
Ticket prices range from $28 ‐ $200

Order online at www.DancapTickets.com or call 416.644.3665 or toll‐free 1.866.950.7469
For more info visit www.DancapTickets.com or www.SouthPacificOnTour.com.

The New AM 740 and Vision TV have lined up an English Double-Decker bus compliments of Shop Dine Tour Toronto to pick you up at the radio station, take you on a tour of the city – the CN Tower instead of Big Ben, Casa Loma instead of Buckingham Palace, Yonge Street instead of Piccadilly Circus, The Bloor Viaduct instead of London Bridge, and Roy Thomson Hall instead of The Royal Albert Hall.

Then it’s off for a night of beverages and good ole English grub – bangers and mash, fish ‘n’ chips, pot pie, English triffle and more at The Duke of York on Prince Arthur Avenue in Yorkville. There’ll be an English Bobby and one of the Queen’s guards to great you when you arrive…we’ll have live English musical entertainment, and then you’ll be treated to both episodes of Vision TV’s new season of “EastEnders” and “Emmerdale” on a big screen .

To cap off this jolly ole night, you’ll receive some British souvenirs to take home and then it’s back to cross the pond on the Double-Decker to AM 740.

Listen weekday mornings to “The Happy Gang” and again on “Afternoon Express”…when you hear the “Rule Britannia” cue-to-call be the 7th caller to win your “AM 740 Night in Britain” from Vision TV and Zoomer Radio, The New AM 740.

You’ll enjoy water sports, 3 swimming pools, world class service including your own suite complete with a Jacuzzi, gourmet dining including 6 restaurants, butler service on the beach, nightly entertainment, activities and more.

Listen weekday mornings between 6 and 10 am with “The Happy Gang” and again between 2 and 6 pm on “Afternoon Express”. When you hear the AM 740 Jet, just be the 7th caller to qualify for our Monday morning draw at 7:50!

Gourmet All-Inclusive Mayan Riviera getaways from Signature Vacations, Sensatori Azul and Zoomer Radio, The New AM 740.

The New AM 740 encourages you to make a financial contribution in support of Team Zoomer for The Weekend To End Womens Cancer for The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, September 11 and 12.

Our goal is $65,000.00. You can donate on-line by CLICKING HERE, or you can call in your donation to (416)815 WALK – that’s (416) 815-9255.

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Watch a video from ZoomerNews on the Weekend to End Women’s Cancer:

Often they have a singsong quality that sets them apart from the apparently meaningless sounds that surround them. They tend to be grammatically unusual, and are sometimes metaphorical in meaning.Using a strict protocol, the analyst can successfully reveal statements that are communicated from the subconscious or higher mind of the individual. Together, the analyst and client can discuss the meanings of these reversals within the context of the client’s experience. Startling realizations and solutions result from this collaborative effort. By revealing and understanding speech reversals, we can open the door to the unconscious mind of anyone.

Guest: Wayne Nicholson is a Certified Reverse Speech Practitioner and Hypnotherapist. Always fascinated with the link between language, perception, and reality, Wayne found that the way we use language directly affects the way we perceive reality, which in turn affects the way the world responds to us.

This year we’re presenting “The Garden Show” and “The Sand Sculptures Display” located in Heritage Court in the Direct Energy Centre. We’re also sponsoring “The Let’s Get Cooking Fun, Food and Nutrition Stage” – daily cooking demonstrations just outside the Better Living Centre.

The New AM 740 presents “Robbie Lane & The Disciples” – Saturday August 28th and Saturday September 4th from 3 to 6 pm at The Budweiser Midway Stage.

Don’t miss the Canadian premiere of the avant-garde opera of Frank London’s “Night in the Old Marketplace” (Monday September 6 at 1pm) featuring Marilyn lightstone as the narrator. Tickets are $25 inadvance or $30 at the door.

For more information go to: www.ashkenazfestival.com

“When my husband passed away while vacationing, only one phone call was required to have the staff spring into action. They contacted a local funeral home to provide preliminary services. All paperwork including customs filing was handled efficiently with little intrusion to the family,” says Mary.

The Travel Assistance Plan, offered at Heritage Funeral Centre in Toronto, is ideal for anyone travelling more than 100 kilometers away from home. One phone call to Heritage covers all the costs and logistics involved in bringing you home with no charges to your family. The plan even paid for Mary’s son’s flight to Arizona. Your family is spared undue headache and worry so they can cope better and honor your memory in peace.

There are no pre-requisites – neither age nor medical – to qualify and it is offered separately or as part of a funeral pre-arrangement. For only a few hundred dollars, this one-time cost covers you for life. All required paperwork is completed, including consular services if death occurs outside Canada.

When asked about her experience Mary says, “The service, efficiency and compassion were excellent. We will be eternally grateful to those who eased our fears during this event. I strongly urge fellow travelers to purchase this insurance to provide peace of mind on their future journeys.”

The above incident occurred in Arizona. It could just as easily happen on a cruise ship or elsewhere in North American. Imagine if a death occurs while travelling in a remote part of the world where you are not able to speak the language, or while en route in a plane over the ocean necessitating an emergency landing. Repatriating a deceased loved one can be very expensive, possibly requiring payment of over twenty thousand dollars that may not be readily available. The Travel Assurance Plan takes care of all of this for you.

Hello, my name is Glen Day. I have the responsibility of carrying on my family’s four- generation legacy in funeral service in Toronto. At Heritage Funeral Centre, our plan is simple: be the best value funeral home in all of Toronto with fair prices, exceptional staff and excellent facility, and to be an active supporter of our community. These are our four pillars.

We adhere to the following principles and values each and every day: #1 we care for the departed with utmost care, dignity and respect; #2 our only priority is to exceed each family’s expectation #3 all families we are privileged to serve receive outstanding service at a fair price; #4 our funeral directors are compassionate professionals who earn the trust of families they care for – they are not paid any commission or pressured by sales quota; and, #5, only Heritage professionals arrange and direct our funerals.

If Heritage’s principles and values resonate with you and are the values you are looking for in a funeral home, then please, take a moment and click through to our web-site at www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca to see pictures of our excellent facility and learn more.

We are conveniently located in mid-town Toronto with easy TTC and car access. With our central location close to the Don Valley Parkway, we readily serve families from throughout the Greater Toronto Area. We have plenty of excellent parking and our facilities are entirely on a single level – there are no steps anywhere! We work very hard to earn every family’s trust and respect and are proud to continue our legacy as a family owned funeral home.

Please call us at 416-423-1000 with any questions you might have or to make an appointment to come in and visit us.

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Listen as Zoomer Report’s Libby Znaimer recaps the evening:

The economic ripple will hit investors soon. As a result, many millions will be looking for safe havens for their money, and over the the last few decades, gold has been one of the safest of harbors. He feels that gold will continue to soar, perhaps upwards of $2,400 per ounce. Back in 1979, gold reached $800 per ounce, and everyone thought that bubble would burst, too. But it didn’t then. Instead, the Reagan administration cut spending and stopped printing money. Until the Obama administration does the same, he says gold will soar in the wake of the economic and environmental disaster of the gulf oil spill as toxic rain hits the heart of the American economy east of the Mississippi.

Guest: Howard J. Ruff is financial adviser and writer of investing newsletter The Ruff Times. Ruff is the author of Famine and Survival in America (1974), How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (1979), Survive and Win in the Inflationary Eighties (1981), Making Money (1984), and other books. He has recently updated and re-released his most successful book, re-titling it How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years in the 21st Century (2008).Ruff advised investors to avoid stocks and bonds and instead to put their portfolios into gold, silver, platinum group metals, and collectibles such as art and numismatic coins. He also advised his readers to store a year’s supply of food in preparation for hard times. Ruff believed (as of his 1979-1981 writings) that the United States was headed for a hyperinflationary economic depression.Ruff gained a sizable mainstream audience for a while during the late 1970s until about 1981, because those who had been taking his investment advice and buying precious metals saw large capital gains during that period. The New York Times labeled Howard Ruff “The Prophet of Doom” after his book How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years reached the number #1 seller in 1979.