Day: 15 September 2024

Bellucci, A Different Kind of Diva

TORONTO – After having opened the 81st Venice Film Festival to a standing ovation, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is bringing a little bit of the 80s back to cinema. But even Tim Burton’s sequel to the 1988 dark comedy brings something unexpected, and it’s in the form of Italy’s most unique “Diva” – mangled as she is in the role. 

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Great success for the Roncesvalle Polish Festival

TORONTO – Great success for the seventeenth edition of the Roncesvalles Polish Festival, which took place on Saturday. Numerous folk groups performed in front of a large audience, including the Radosc-Joy Song and Dance group (in the photogallery below, by Priscilla Pajdo) founded in 1992 by Mrs. Ania Piwowarczyk, organist at the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Mississauga . The mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, also attended the festival(more…)