Weekend events in Toronto: November 16-18, 2012
Weekend events in Toronto is our guide to events happening this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Here's what's happening in Toronto this November 16-18, 2012.HOLIDAYSanta Claus Parade Santa Claus is coming...
View ArticleThis Week In Comedy: The Juice Cup, Laughable at Unlovable, Nathan Macintosh...
African Kings of Comedy? What about the Jamaican Kings of Comedy? A man with a lesbian haircut that shared the stage with Dave Chappelle? Follow me as I wade through the talented line-up in This Week...
View ArticleMighton's The Little Years bends time and space
There's a measured hand at work in the scripts of celebrated Canadian playwright John Mighton. A mathematician by trade, Mighton pens stories that probe the boundaries of the world in which we live....
View ArticleShrunken heads, 2-headed calf at Toronto auction
The room is filled with shrunken heads, ancient war clubs, and sculpture of resin bananas with penises inside. Yup, this is definitely Billy Jamieson's collection. Media has gathered at Richies Auction...
View ArticleThat time when Toronto went stadium crazy
Long before the Blue Jays and the SkyDome, Toronto earnestly tried to win a 1960 American League expansion franchise by proposing new civic stadiums in several diverse and quite frankly ridiculous...
View ArticleEarly Morning Toronto, November 15, 2012
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View ArticleNew Ryerson gallery unveils world-class photography
The story behind Ryerson's new gallery reads almost like a fairy tale--complete with a generous benefactor--but the attention rightly belongs on its world-class collection of photography, and...
View ArticleFlash Forward 2012 showcases new photography talent
A photography exhibit and book launch is the last place you'd expect to see buff men with muscular arms, but the uncomfortable contrast of servers in tight black tees serving Chilean cab sauv while art...
View ArticleThis Week in Theatre: The Arsonists, BOBLO, The Little Years, Alice's...
This week in theatre rounds up the most noteworthy live theatre playing right now in Toronto. It includes just-opened shows as well as productions that are about to close.The Arsonists / Bluma Appel...
View ArticleToronto butcher makes over 60 varieties of sausage
Jerk chicken sausage, Tuscan lamb with sundried tomatoes and pine nuts, blue cheese steak sausage, wild boar with prunes and cognac and so many more. This Etobicoke butcher offers an endless list of...
View ArticleSunday Supplement: Restoring Nathan Phillips Square, stopping streetcars, and...
Nathan Phillips Square is a hive of activity right now. Celebrations for the 100th Grey Cup Festival and construction work on numerous new, less grey features are now underway. Below is a reminder of...
View ArticleCity Hall gets a zip line (for a limited time)
What's high strung, a little dangerous, and flies across Nathan Phillips Square at 30 km/h? Points if the name of a city councillor came to mind, but I would have also accepted a temporary zip line...
View ArticleRadar: Henry Rollins, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Gilberto Gil, What Disturbs...
CULTURE | Henry Rollins @ Glenn Gould Studio Tonight, Henry Rollins begins a three-night run at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio. This venue is quite a far cry from the rough and tumble hardcore punk gigs...
View ArticleMorning Brew: A new DRL funding poll, Santa Claus visits Toronto, the fifth...
According to the The Star, a new poll says Toronto is split on how to finance a downtown relief line. 45 per cent of respondents said they were willing to pay for the infrastructure with a $50 annual...
View ArticleContest: win a full AC/DC catalogue
AC/DC fans, you're not going to want to miss this. To celebrate the release of AC/DC's Live at River Plate, in stores today, a convoy of AC/DC-branded military vehicles will be traveling throughout...
View ArticleHot Ticket: And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Genticorum, The...
Live music picks for TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20 through SATURDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2012.TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20 / ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD / LEE'S PALACE / 529 BLOOR W / $18.50 - $20 / 19+It might...
View ArticleMylk Uncookies re-opens with new name & ownership
No love for butter-free, egg-free cake, Cabbagetown? Or you just want your vegan cake, and to eat something meaty too? Whatever the reason, Mylk Uncookies has been bought by a new owner, and the menu...
View ArticleCunninLynguists drop poetic beats at the Opera House
Stopping by the Opera House on the tail-end of their first ever full Canadian tour, the CunninLynguists - with special guests DJ Flip Flop, Sadistik , Tonedeff and PackFM lit up the stage on Saturday...
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