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  • Next gay theatre not-a-review: The 34th Rhubarb Festival
    Feb 21 2013 | The 34th annual Rhubarb Festivalis -- every bit as chaotic and mesmerizing as the other 33 editions. And the kickoff party was, as usual, one of the best parties of the year. The performances at Rhubarb are strictly off limits for reviewing. This is to allow the ideas and experiments to grow in f
  • Next gay theatre review: Clybourne Park
    Feb 20 2013 | The actors in Clybourne Park are all gifted and dedicated, but the real star is the script. Bruce Norris's words are intricate, layered and, on occasion, laugh-out-loud funny. Watching, and hearing, a stellar group of performers bite into such tasty writing is as satisfying as the theatrical exp
  • Gay love on the rez
    Feb 20 2013 | “Everyone has crushes; everyone falls in love,” says Waawaate Fobister of his play Agokwe: Gay Love on the Rez. “It is very specific, but these characters have very human feelings, so everyone goes on the journey.” Agokwe was a hit in its two previous incarnations at Buddi
  • Do you have a great ass? We want to hear from you!
    Feb 18 2013 | When it comes to great butts in Toronto, we are experts. We know them, love them and appreciate all kinds of them. To celebrate them properly, we're hunting down the city's best bums for an upcoming story in the magazine. If you or a friend who loves their arse, send us an email (and a shot
  • Óle to the homo
    Feb 17 2013 | Having "homo" in the title of a dance show will surely get the attention of gay boys, but in the case of La Otra Orilla’s HomoBLABLAtus, it refers to an “ultimate incarnation of the human race,” one that sings, dances and babbles. Óle to Myriam Allard and Hedi
  • Yes Yes Lady
    Feb 15 2013 | Everybody remembers their first time at Yes Yes Y’all, the downtown queer hip-hop party where not only is everybody welcome, but everybody shows up. YYY’s fourth anniversary is this month, and not much has changed. “At our party, you can see a really indicative cross section of
  • Better than butter
    Feb 15 2013 | Rainbow-farting unicorns will be the least of your worries at Criscotheque’s upcoming first birthday party. DJs Andrew Awesome and Basha Is Electric’s monthly night, with its sleazy, fun performances and art installations, has been an orgy of dance music since its inception. In the ye
  • It’s not easy being green
    Feb 15 2013 | You read it in Fab first: TreeHouse, one of Pride’s most bodacious parties, has announced its 2013 lineup. Abel, the Grammy-nominated house legend from Miami, will join resident DJ Isaac Escalante (Mexico City) and some of Canada’s best house-music producers — Nick Bertossi (Van
  • Ass-trology
    Feb 14 2013 | This Valentine’s Day, are you looking to loosen Orion’s belt? Are you chasing the Big Dipper? Is this the dawning of the Age of Aquarius or the crowning of the gays of Aquarius? Well, all you gay astrophiles out there can thank your lucky stars, because there is a new smartphone flirting
  • Money, honey
    Feb 14 2013 | Money and finance. Two topics I really could not care less about. So when it came to Fab’s money and finance issue I thought, okay, let’s find the men behind these dull subject matters and make it interesting! There has to be something sexy and exciting about Bay Street, right?  
  • Make your own Valentine's gay cards
    Feb 13 2013 | Aren't we all tired of the rows upon rows of boring-as-sin Valentine's Day cards? It's easy to think we can sit down one night with a bottle and a box of chocolate and make our own cards, but really, that'll never happen. Thanks to the creative prowess of Sissydude, you can d
  • Fab #470: The Boys of Bay Street
    Feb 13 2013 | Although it may see that we're rolling in mountains of money at Fab, taking baths with $100 bills and shredding 50s to cushion our office chairs, it's actually quite the opposite. So when it came to our money and finance issue, we felt pretty uninspired. That was until we spoke to the lov
  • Everyday Vijay
    Feb 12 2013 | “For anyone who has ever felt like a fish out of water within their own community . . . there are those of us who share your pain.” Gentlemen, consider this actor Noor Mohammed’s personal invitation to Orange Shot Productions’ upcoming play 3 Desis and a Diva.  Du
  • Love is in the herr
    Feb 12 2013 | “Skin Tight Outta Sight has always done a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day show, and we’re getting together with them to do a Weimar Republic Berlin–era-ish — really, really loosely themed — show,” says Wrong Note Rusty, of the all-male burlesque troupe Boyle
  • #HeSaidSheSaid, They said, Gay Said
    Feb 12 2013 | True romantics Rebecca Perry and Matt Eger wear a lot more than hearts on their sleeves during their upcoming cabaret-for-a-cause, #HeSaidSheSaid: Damn these Wild Young Hearts. They share experiences in relationships, or lack thereof, through lyrics and anecdotes that bare their souls and sense
  • Sex for days
    Feb 11 2013 | Sometimes a hot rumble in the sack can last a good, solid 45 minutes. Hell, sometimes even 50! Other times, it can last five, and while often that’s more than enough, there are certain situations and men with whom we wish the bumping of uglies would last for hours. The duration of a sexcapa
  • Next gay theatre review: [title of show]
    Feb 09 2013 | An unfortunate snowstorm reduced the audience for [title of show] to just a handful. An enthusiastic and very entertained handful, but when a show is so dependent on breaking the fourth wall and creating an insider-complicity the empty seats caused a serious problem. Not that it stopped or even slow
  • Next gay theatre review: Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata
    Feb 08 2013 | The designation "cantata" conjures aural visions of serious spiritual music and high art; the website Craigslist is known for teetering on the edge of sleaziness and disrepute. Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata exists in a wonderful space somewhere between the two extremes
  • Sleuthing for sweeties
    Feb 08 2013 | This Valentine’s Day, someone you care about will hand you a foil-wrapped brown blob masquerad-ing as “fine chocolate.” Because you’re a trooper, you’ll take one for the team and eat it. Chocolate’s chocolate, am I right? No. There’s greater similarit
  • Psycho Bitch
    Feb 07 2013 | “Stories are what connect us to each other. I have had many audience members say, 'You’re telling my story.' I state that in the beginning of the play. I know my story is not all that unique, but talking about it openly may be what sets it apart,” says Tamara Lynn Roberts,