REVIEW: Lady GAGA brings Monsters Ball tour to Toronto ACC – a Twitter review and photos by the people there (NO PRO media invited to Canada shows)

photo by @xtra_canada – “Lady Gaga has packed the Air Canada Centre!”
“Every gay man in Toronto is at the Gaga show. Church Street must be dead.” – @doliveira75
” ‘I don’t care if my fans love me. I only care if they love themselves.’ -Lady Gaga – @FLAREmagazine

NEWS: Toronto mourns the loss of Lee’s Palace building mural – director Edgar Wright says it will be seen again in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie

An outpouring of emotion on Twitter has occurred since Torontoist first posted a story on how the iconic bar / live music venue Lee’s Palace has begun to replace it’s painted building facade which it grew famous for.
The news even reached across the pond to filmmaker Edgar Wright. Wright spent much of this year [...]

Winona Ryder filming movie in Toronto’s Union train station – photographers battle for the shot

We see and enjoy celebrity photography on countless news sites and magazines every day. Sometimes the behind-the-scenes stories of what goes into getting those photos can be equally as fascinating.
Here are a couple of links to a story and video of what celebrity photographers have to go through, and the lengths their celebrity subjects will [...]

Wonder how a film takes $140mil in one weekend – promotion!

photo: A magazine stand inside Chapters book store, Toronto – the weekend New Moon opened.
Its a carefully orchestrated PLAN for a movie saga like Twilight to do $140mil in box office business. Industry watchers were even stunned at the first weekend results.

Stephen King in Toronto for Under the Dome talk at Canon Theatre with David Cronenberg – a sequel for The Shining in the works

(HoundsTV – Toronto) A sold-out crowd of more than 2,000 people filled the Canon Theatre in Toronto for a talk by author Stephen King. King was in Toronto to promote his latest novel, Under The Dome, and began the evening by reading from the book. After, director David Cronenberg came on stage to [...]

Nicolas Cage is broke? Johnny Depp coming to the rescue

photo courtesy shot7.com
It has been widely reported of late A-list leading man Nicolas Cage is having severe financial difficulties (though, we are having troubling imagining how the ten million dollar per picture Cage ran into this mess?)
While Cage is in the process of suing his former financial advisor for mismanaging his funds, it looks like [...]

Michael Moore secretly wishes he was Canadian? Leads large HealthAchieve09 audience in O Canada

Michael Moore courtesy shot7.com
(HoundsTV – Toronto) An interesting choice for keynote speaker, documentary icon Michael Moore was in Toronto to address health care professionals. Moore was at his fiery, funny best delivering an hour-plus talk at HealthAchieve 2009 conference that among many things, warned of the moral dangers of emerging two-tier health care in [...]

Does Royalty sign autographs? Prince Charles and Camilla visit Canada on Royal tour

Royal Visit photos courtesy shot7.com
With the future King of England in the news a lot lately – Prince Charles and his wife Camilla did an 11-day Royal tour of Canada through St. Johns, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Vancouver.
HoundsTV was asked one particular question a few times, Does Royalty sign autographs?
We spoke to a few [...]

Prince Charles and Camilla continue Royal visit through Canada with stops in Hamilton and Toronto’s Royal Winter Fair

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Prince Charles and Camilla are about halfway through their first official visit to Canada together. After tours in Hamilton of Dundurn Castle and the HMCS Haida, the Royals will conclude their Toronto stop by officially opening the Royal Winter Fair before jetting off to Vancouver.

ONCE Oscar winners Glen and Marketa may have broken up – but still making beautiful music together at Massey Hall, Toronto on Strict Joy tour

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(HoundTV – Toronto) Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova greet fans and sign autographs after their sold-out Massey Hall show. It was a cold Toronto night but that didn’t stop Glen and Marketa from spending a good 15 minutes outside the stage door taking photos with fans and signing autographs (though, the pair [...]