Rihanna attended Formel 1 Grand Prix in Montreal yesterday. Later on she went to a dinner with her friends. At 3 a.m she was spotted at McDonalds.

Out and about in Montreal – 12.06

At McDonalds in Montreal – 12.06

• Cee Lo Green, who was supposed to open for the 23-year-old headliner, was a no-show. “Travel problems” was the excuse given in the last-minute announcement (He is expected to perform at the second show Saturday night). Rumours began to circulate that there would nonetheless be a special surprise during Rihanna’s performance. Drake’s name came upThere was no surprise. It was all Rihanna for almost two hours, and from the moment she opened with Only Girl (In the World), she didn’t seem to need help from anyone. One thing you must give this woman: few performers that young can chew the scenery and take over an arena with such brash confidence. (read more on Montreal Gazette)

I’ve added 4 photos of Rihanna arriving for soundcheck in Ottawa on June 8th, 2011. Our gallery has been also updated with more photos of RiRi performing in Ottawa on June 8th, 2011.

Concert in Ottawa – 8.06/2011

I’ve added photos of Rihanna and her fans backstage at her concert in Toronto (June 7th) and Ottawa (June 8th).

Ottawa – 8.06/2011

Toronto – 7.06/2011

• You’ve come a long way, Rihanna. It didn’t seem so long ago, Bluesfest in 2006, that the teenaged Barbadian beauty was last here. It was, by most accounts, your usual garden variety of repetitive dance pop with a catwalk sensibility. I remember thinking, “Gosh, has Bluesfest come to this?”The now-23-year-old rolled her latest live show, appropriately dubbed Loud, into Scotiabank Place on Wednesday night. She was met loudly by an impressive wave of estrogenic energy generated by 12,000 fans who, I suspect, might be, like Rihanna, divas at heart.Part Broadway music, part Oprah Winfrey show for the younger generation, Rihanna’s suddenly doing for women what rap and rock did for men long ago while giving the fairer sex a strong, sensual and empowering role model with unbelievable star power. (read more on Ottawa Sun)

I’ve added some pictures from second Toronto show that took place on June 7, 2011. Our gallery has been updated with photos from Meet&Greet on June 6, 2011.

Meet & Greet

• Make that very loud. And sexy. And in your face. R&B-pop star Rihanna, who’s come under fire for her violent new video, Man Down, in which she shoots a rapist, pulled into the Air Canada Centre on Monday night for the first of two back-to-back shows of her so-called Loud tour after her 2010 album of the same name. And the two-hour, larger-than-life show lived up to the billing. And then some. The 23-year-old Barbadian beauty played on a giant stage that incorporated about 20 audience members into the production on either side, boasted two catwalks, enormous video screens including four round pods that descended from above, and large speakers overhead. (read more on Toronto Sun)
• Monday’s ACC show was the second stop on the North American tour for current album Loud which will hits seven more Canadian cities. It had all the bells and whistles: pyrotechnics, smoke, disappearing stage, and a handful of skimpy costumes. Rihanna, who shares creative responsibility for the production, has culled bits and pieces from other performers — Justin Bieber’s drum solo, Janet Jackson’s lap dance (with a female audience member instead of the men Ms Jackson usually selects), and Madonna’s old burlesque thing. (read more on The Star)

I’ve added 47 photos of Rihanna and her fans backstage at Baltimore concert. She looks so cute.

• Loud is the perfect name for Rihanna’s summer tour, which kicked off with last night’s sold-out gig at Baltimore’s 1st Mariner Arena. Beyond just the volume of the show – which was considerable – the theme prevailed through the set, built around a giant speaker cabinet; the costumes (mostly neon and shiny); and the entire production itself: a gloriously over-the-top spectacle perfectly befitting the singer, who seems to produce chart-toppers by the dozen.
  The show began with a blitzkrieg of video, as four hanging, shifting circular video screens joined four giant stationary ones is projecting Rihanna’s arrival. She wore an electric blue mini-trenchcoat and hot pink stilleto …(read more on Rolling Stone)
• There was strutting on a moving catwalk, there were military cannons, fireworks, a flurry of backup dancers, grinding on a moving platform, and there was a crowd of 13,000 fans screaming for more. It was opening night of Rihanna‘s LOUD Tour in Baltimore. Hot of the success of her smash hit singles that have bombarded radio for the past year, the Barbados born sensation indulged herself in a flirtatious romp, and took her audience along with her for the ride. Rihanna is out to claim her spot as one of the top performers of 2011, and she’s not going to let anyone get in her way… (read more on MelodicRockConcerts)

I’ve added 40 new pictures from the show. You can view them by clicking the thumbnails.

Pushing forth with her just-launched North American tour efforts, Rihanna was spotted arriving to Toronto, Canada on Sunday afternoon (June 5). The Barbadian beauty was decked out in a black Rihanna’s Navy hoodie despite the warm summertime weather as she ventured over to her hotel to get settled in the north of the border locale.