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Toronto Star
2 days ago
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- Toronto Star
11 Toronto street festivals to check out this summer
Looking to enjoy the summer in the city without breaking the bank? Here are 10 street festivals that celebrate the best music, food and culture that Toronto has to offer. Indigenous Arts Festival June 20 and 21 at Fort York Snotty Nose Rez Kids will headline this year's Indigenous Arts Festival at Fort York in Toronto. Looking for a special way to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day this year? Taking place on the two longest days of the year at Toronto's Fort York, the Indigenous Arts Festival is a free, family-friendly event featuring traditional and contemporary music, dance, food and art inspired by First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Turtle Island. Friday's music lineup will be headlined by DJ Shub, a trail-blazing producer (and former member of A Tribe Called Red) who helped pioneer the pow-wow-step genre, while Saturday's lineup will feature a traditional pow wow and a special performance by the Indigenous rap duo Snotty Nose Rez Kids. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW See the full festival lineup here. Toronto Jazz Festival June 20 to 29, various locations Legendary R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples will headline the Toronto Jazz photo The 38th annual Jazz Fest will take over Toronto for 10 days, with free outdoor performances taking place throughout the Bloor-Yorkville neighbourhood, plus ticketed events for a diverse lineup of local and international artists performing at venues scattered across the city. The 2025 festival will be headlined by legendary R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples, Toronto indie-rock titans Broken Social Scene and renowned actor Jeff Goldblum, who will perform contemporary arrangements of classic jazz and American Songbook standards alongside the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. See details and the full schedule here. Music Toronto Jazz Fest announces full lineup, with Mavis Staples, Jeff Goldblum and Broken Social Scene slated as headliners Richie Assaly Pride Toronto Festival Weekend June 26 to 29, The Village (Church-Wellesley) The 2024 Toronto Pride Parade. Nick Lachance/ Toronto Star Whether you're looking to attend the Drag Ball or Sober Oasis, join the Trans and Dyke marches or peruse the Two-Spirit artists market, Pride Toronto has something for everyone during its 2025 Festival Weekend at the end of June. The weekend will also feature dozens of live performances from local and international acts, including Brampton rapper (and former Polaris Music Prize winner) Haviah Mighty, Toronto drag queen superstar Priyanka and American R&B/pop singer Amerie. Find all the details and full lineup information here. Star Interactive Toronto Pride 2025: Your guide to parade weekend, our favourite local spots and everything else you need to know Reagan McSwain, McKenna Hart TD Salsa in Toronto Festival July 5 and 6, St. Clair Avenue West, between Winona Road and Christie Street The 21st annual TD Salsa in Toronto Festival will transform midtown Toronto into the ultimate fiesta. Steve Russell/ Toronto Star file photo Looking to move your hips this summer? Grab your dancing shoes and head up to St. Clair Avenue West this July to take part in 'Canada's hottest salsa party.' The two-day fiesta, now in its 21st year, features local and international musicians, authentic cuisine and all things Latino culture. See details and performance schedule here. Toronto Summer Music Festival July 10 to Aug. 2, various locations TO Summer Music, an annual classical music festival, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with over two dozen concerts bringing world musicians to the city, plus free concerts, children's programming and much more. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW This year's festival kicks off with a performance of the timeless opera 'The Coronation of Poppea,' conducted by Leonardo García-Alarcón. Find all the details here. Big on Bloor Festival July 19 and 20, Bloor Street West between Dufferin and Lansdowne Toronto Samba Reggae drummers set the beat for members of Dance Migration for their performance that ran the length of the Big on Bloor Festival in 2022. Steve Russell/ Toronto Star file photo Now in its 19th year, Big on Bloor will transform Bloordale Village into a car-free festival of art and culture, while showcasing the unique small businesses that make the neighbourhood one of Toronto's most vibrant. The theme of this year's (completely free) festival is 'Bizarre,' organizers say: 'a celebration of the delightfully peculiar aspects of local culture, artistry and community life, through workshops and installations led by local BIPOC artists, presenting conversations (about) their relationship to the individual, cultural oddities and how both are necessary for a healthy creative community.' Keep Bloor Street weird! More details available here. OssFest July 26, Ossington Strip, between Dundas Street West and Queen Street West For years, Ossington has been touted as 'one of the coolest streets' in Toronto (in fact, in 2022, it was named the 14th coolest street in the world). Don't believe it? Check it out at OssFest on July 26, a pedestrian takeover that transforms the strip into a family-friendly celebration of music, food and culture. And because it's Ossington, you know it's going to get rowdy in the evening. See more details here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝕆𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕥𝕠𝕟 𝔹𝕀𝔸 (@ossingtonbia) Toronto Caribbean Carnival Weekend July 31 to Aug. 4, Exhibition Place & Lake Shore Boulevard West Naomi Stephens, 10, in yellow and Kalyce Grant Hackett, 12, wearing purple, join in the festivities at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival official launch in 2019. R.J. Johnston/ Toronto Star file photo Now in its 58th year, Toronto's Caribbean Carnival Weekend (formerly known, and lovingly referred to, as Caribana) has the distinction of being North America's largest outdoor street festival, typically attracting well over a million attendees and adding hundreds of millions of dollars to Ontario's GDP. The festival, known for its food, music and colourful costumes, culminates each year in the Grand Parade, during which Lake Shore Boulevard is transformed into a massive stage for masqueraders and steelpan performers, with music that can be heard from kilometres away. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Find all the details here. JerkFest Aug. 8 to 10, Centennial Park What better way to enjoy a summer weekend than indulging in mouth-watering Caribbean food while enjoying the sweet sounds of reggae and dancehall? This August, North America's longest running jerk food and music festival returns to Centennial Park in Etobicoke for three days of family-friendly fun, with performances from Jamaican reggae star Tarrus Riley, Valiant and many more. Check out details and full lineup information here. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jerk Festival Toronto (@jerkfestivaltoronto) Yorkville Murals Festival August 23–24, Yorkville Avenue, between Bellair Street and Hazelton Avenue Guided by the theme 'No Empty Spaces,' the sixth edition of the Yorkville Murals Festival will turn this downtown neighbourhood into an interactive cultural playground filled with large-scale murals, inflatable art, immersive installations and more. The festival will kick off on the evening of Friday Aug. 22 at sunset with a DJ set by the international electronic artist Kaskade. Find more details here. Roncesvalles Polish Festival Sept. 13 and 14, Roncesvalles Avenue Crowds jam the street for the Roncesvalles Polish Festival — North America's largest — in 2017. Richard Lautens/ Toronto Star file photo Czesc! As the summer winds down, head down to Toronto's west end for some perogy and polka music at Roncy Polish Festival, which has been bringing old world charm to the city for 17 years. The two-day festival boasts four stages, 40 performances, 20 buskers, 90 vendors and exhibitors, and two family zones with rides and more. Find all the details here.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jurassic World Rebirth Will Honor The Series' Canon So Far, And New Franchise Details Make Me Hopeful The Video Games Will Be Part Of That Promise
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. We're mere weeks away from a new Jurassic World movie heading into theaters, and I'm still in awe that we've reached this point. As the 2025 movie schedule promises mutant dinosaur mayhem, there's another title arriving later this year that's going to help branch out the story inspired by Michael Crichton's legendary 1990 novel. Since the ties between past and future Jurassic canon are stronger than ever, I really hope that a new video game could help shape the future of Universal's legacy franchise. That desire is especially strong considering what we know about Jurassic World Rebirth feels tailor-made to lock into a brand-new video game on the way. Publisher Frontier Developments released both the Announcement and Gameplay trailers for Jurassic World Evolution 3. The third outing in the long running park simulator series, players will be pushing their abilities to the limit with a lot of new features. You can thank a new organization introduced in this adventure for being able to grow your own baby dinosaur, the Dinosaur Integration Network (also known as D.I.N.) But as you can see in the Gameplay trailer for the latest Jurassic World video game, it's not all petting zoos and the return of Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm: While they aren't named, this new activist group wants to disrupt D.I.N.'s 'groundbreaking sustainable breeding programs,' which it offers to park owners around the world. Some of you deep cut Jurassic World fans are probably ready to run to your Netflix subscription after reading that last bit, and I can't blame you. Seeing as those themes have been presented in the animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, this feels like it could be another knot that ties the characters of that animated series in with the live-action adventures. That very scenario is what has me thinking about how Jurassic World Rebirth might be able to take advantage of this digital extension of this cautionary tale in playing God. As stated in Jurassic World Rebirth writer David Koepp's previous remarks, the canon that currently exists isn't going to be altered in the Scarlett Johansson-led ensemble legacy-quel. Seeing as Evolution 3's gameplay takes place in a post-Dominion timeframe, but presumably before Rebirth's mass dinosaur deaths, this is something that could be useful to the series overall. If there are sequels to this seventh Jurassic adventure, then there's a chance that this unnamed activist collective could try to sabotage the work that Parker-Genix Pharmaceutical Engineering is trying to achieve. Perhaps Jurassic World Rebirth will see that sort of sabotage coming from a member of the team assembled by Johansson's Zora Bennett? Or, if the film canon won't touch this new information from Jurassic World Evolution 3, then perhaps the animated TV series will. As we saw in Jurassic World: Chaos Theory's first trailer, executive producer Scott Kreamer's follow-up to Camp Cretaceous has been playing out in a timeline shortly before/during Dominion's events. Now seeing as the Camp Fam has been getting involved in their own activist activities against Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) and the forces of BioSyn, it'd be very easy to tie that series into Evolution 3's events. Plus, since Kreamer admitted in a previous interview with CinemaBlend that there have been some early thoughts on a new series taking place closer to Jurassic World Rebirth, this rogue organization could be connected to the people Brooklynn (Kiersten Kelly) and Ben Pinkus (Sean Giambrone) have been running with on the dark web. Of course, this is all massive speculation for the moment. But what I do know is that Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 3rd, in all of its explosive cinematic glory! For those of you looking to build a petting zoo of your own, Jurassic World Evolution 3 hits shelves on October 21st. How these two titles will connect is something that life, and time, will find a way to explain.
Time of India
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jeff Goldblum reveals he was 'very starstruck' meeting George Clooney
Hollywood star was "very starstruck" when he got to meet English star for the first time. The 72-year-old actor said that he was very taken aback when he got to see the Ticket to Paradise star backstage at his Broadway show Good Night, and Good Luck alongside Beatles legend Sir , reports Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Speaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers, he said: "I was very excited. After the play, I was looking and (McCartney and I) both got a chance to go backstage and meet George and the cast. I saw him in the flesh for the first time ever, and there he was." "I just thought 'My golly, I'm very starstruck,' because he means a lot to me." The Jurassic Park actor described Clooney as being "very nice" to him and couldn't help but "brag" in revealing that it was the former ER star who asked him for a picture, as opposed to the other way round. "He was very is bragging, I shouldn't do it. But he said, 'Jeff, Jeff Goldblum. I love Jeff Goldblum. Come here, Jeff, let's take a picture,' and all that stuff. It made my life and my year." Meanwhile, Goldblum heaped praise on the Beatles and recounted discovering the rock band, which also consisted of , Ringo Starr, and George Harrison - in his early teen years. He added: "Everybody, you've all got stories like this. But I was a kid when I Want to Hold Your Hand and 'She Loves You, came out. And I remember Suzy Connolly ... in her cut-off jean shorts, and I was like 12, 13... And they went, 'Here, come and listen to this song.' It's all mixed in my nostalgic bosom in a way that's very, very exciting and meaningful."
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jeff Goldblum Says This 1 Celebrity Actually Left Him Starstruck: 'It Made My Life'
Fear not, mere mortals, as even world-famous Hollywood actors can get starstruck. Jeff Goldblum joined Thursday's edition of 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' to promote his latest jazz album, only to reveal that he encountered his lifelong idol at a recent Broadway performance of George Clooney's play 'Good Night, and Good Luck.' 'I saw the great George Clooney and his wonderful play, very important, very great, but I found out shortly before we went, guess who's also going to be there?' Goldblum teased. 'Paul McCartney. Paul... McCartney. I have never met Paul McCartney.' 'I was very excited,' he admitted. 'And then sure enough, after the play, I was looking and we both got a chance to go backstage and meet George and the cast. I saw him in the flesh for the first time ever, and there he was. My golly, I'm very starstruck.' Goldblum has starred in some of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, including 'Jurassic Park' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' but is also a fervent musician who came of age when The Beatles conquered the world — and said McCartney 'means a lot' to him. He waxed rhapsodic Thursday about actually interacting with the legendary Beatle at Clooney's show. 'And then they were taking pictures, and he saw me, and he was very nice,' Goldblum told Meyers. 'This is bragging, I shouldn't do it, but he said, 'Jeff, Jeff Goldblum, I love Jeff Goldblum. Come here, Jeff, let's take a picture,' and all that stuff.' 'It made my life and my year,' he continued. Goldblum arguably has one of the most distinct manners of speaking and an effusive personality that has made for some of the funniest talk show appearances over the years. On Thursday, he jokingly presented Meyers with his own, refined jaywalking technique. The actor-turned-musician appeared earnest while reflecting on his chance encounter with McCartney, however, and vividly recalled the Beatles' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' and 'She Loves You' hitting the airwaves in 1964 when he was '12 or 13.' Goldblum has performed his own music with his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra ensemble for more than a decade now. The entertainer released his third, aptly titled CD, 'Still Blooming,' in April — and performed at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City earlier this month. On Thursday, he vowed to stop dropping names during public appearances. 'I impress my own self with a lot of the people that I seem to have rubbed shoulders with,' he said. 'I have to, as a matter of fact, restrain myself from taking reflected glory and saying, 'Hey, you know who else I met? You know who else I know?' I seem to like that.' 'I shouldn't do that,' Goldblum acknowledged. 'And starting here and now, I won't.' Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals The 1 Mistake Fans Make When Meeting Her Miley Cyrus Says She Wears 'Very Modest' Bathing Suits Because Of Memes Eric Dane Describes Waking Up With ALS In First TV Interview Since Announcement
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wicked star Jeff Goldblum reveals that once celebrity he was 'very starstruck' by
Jeff Goldblum was "very starstruck" when he got to meet George Clooney for the first time. The 72-year-old actor has worked with A-listers such as Julia Roberts, Matthew Broderick and Ariana Grande over the course of his decades-long career in film, but admitted that he was very taken aback when he got to see the Ticket to Paradise star backstage at his Broadway show Good Night, and Good Luck alongside Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney. Speaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers, he said: "I was very excited. After the play, I was looking and [McCartney and I] both got a chance to go backstage and meet George and the cast. "I saw him in the flesh for the first time ever, and there he was. "I just thought 'My golly, I'm very starstruck,' because he means a lot to me." The Wicked actor described George as being "very nice" to him and couldn't help but "brag" in revealing that it was the former ER star who asked him for a picture, as opposed to the other way round. "He was very is bragging, I shouldn't do it. "But he said, 'Jeff, Jeff Goldblum. I love Jeff Goldblum. Come here, Jeff, let's take a picture,' and all that stuff. "It made my life and my year." Meanwhile, Jeff was full of praise for the Beatles and recounted discovering the rock band - which also consisted of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison - in his early teen years. He added: "Everybody, you've all got stories like this." "But I was a kid when I Want to Hold Your Hand and 'She Loves You, came out. "And I remember Suzy Connolly ... in her cut-off jean shorts, and I was like 12, 13... "And they went, 'Here, come and listen to this song.' It's all mixed in my nostalgic bosom in a way that's very, very exciting and meaningful."
