March 7, The Carlu. “If there’s poutine, I’m in,” intimated the former Beverly Hills 90210 star as he weaved around throngs of Instagram-happy fans at the quarter-century fête for the Canadian Stage Company. Priestley is appearing in Can-Stage’s production of David Mamet’s Race this April, and when he wasn’t graciously chitchatting with admiring guests at the party, he told tales of Sarah McLachlan’s short stay-over at his Vancouver home before pausing to be auctioned to the highest bidder. While we’re not sure if he ever found the heaping pile of gravy, cheese curds and fries he desired, he did help the country’s largest not-for-profit theatre company raise over $300,000.
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Operanation, the annual party to benefit the Canadian Opera Company, is always one of the year’s biggest fetes (not least in terms of space—the party spans three floors of the Four Seasons Centre). This year, the main draws were musical guests Nelly Furtado and The Arkells, both accompanied by singers from the Opera Company. Before the performance, we spoke with Gabrielle Miller, everyone’s favourite Corner Gas star, about hopping between Canada and the U.S.—the actress is now multinational, having just starred in 
We’re fairly sure that having a piano quartet playing in the living room is a normal after-supper digestive for many Rosedale households. Having Gemini award-winner Nicholas Campbell read a monologue from the War of the Worlds, is likely more of a rarity. That experience, however, was part of the fifth annual Art of Time Ensemble Salon this past Wednesday night. Held at a private mansion (the kind with a lion-shaped door knocker and a tennis court-sized kitchen), the fundraiser for the 
