Culture

Iranian pop star releases video featuring lesbian couple

‘The reactions we have seen so far have been tremendous,’ director of video says

By Niko Bell

Arts

Coming of age

The new Hidden Cameras album is the band’s darkest yet, so why is Joel Gibb still laughing?

By Johnnie Walker

Arts

Hidden Cameras show their age

Joel Gibb says his band’s new album could be the most depressing release of 2014

By Xtra Editor

Culture

Madonna heats up Toronto with Hard Candy

Material girl helps launch new gym

By Frank Prendergast

Arts

Dead or alive

Ottawa Symphony presents three rarely heard compositions

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Jazzy little number

Singer Renée Yoxon returns to Ottawa for an intimate show

By Julie Cruikshank

Arts

Cultivating Rhubarb

After 35 years, the annual queer theatre festival is as hardy as ever — no thanks to the government

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Oh, those Russians . . .

Toronto’s Choir! Choir! Choir! stand up to Putin through song

By Xtra Editor

Arts

Thunder and Lighten-ing

A seriously cool album/documentary project about an underappreciated Canadian folk elder

By Kevin Ritchie

Opinion

From the Speakers

DJ Isaac Escalante presents his top-10 tracks of the moment

By MICHAEL BABB

Arts

Fabulous at 20

Tone Cluster celebrates two decades of song

By Julie Cruikshank

Music

Hunter Valentine is startingly unpredictable and original

WESTFEST 2007 / Girl-power band to rock Westfest

By Lara Purvis

Arts

Youth in motion

Nova Scotia’s Molly Thomason unleashes her new album with an all-star band

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Toronto Diary

Christian rapper releases homophobic response to Same Love

By Jeremy Feist

Travel

Miami’s Winter Party runs March 5–10

Stellar lineup of DJs announced to fuel six-day festival

By Daily Xtra Travel Editor

Arts

Toronto Symphony Orchestra announces a thrilling 2014/15 season

Highlights include a George Benjamin opera, Mozart and a badass group of soloists

By Lydia Perovic

Culture

Madonna to perform ‘Same Love’ with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis at Grammys

By Raziel Reid