The Making of a Medley
Newsstand: November 23, 2009
Transit City and Transit Cities
The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Televisualist: A Kinder, Gentler Televisualist
MUSIC: British remix artist and musician Joseph Mount plays the Social with his band, Metronomy. They are joined by Toronto electro trio Modele. Treat yourself to a few $2 drinks before 11 p.m., and stay for the show. The Social (1100 Queen Street West), 10 p.m., $5 before 11 p.m., $10 after.
MUSIC: In case the Social's not really your thing, join Juno Award-winning songstress Melissa Etheridge at Massey Hall for a night of slightly more feminist music. Not just a Juno Award winner, Etheridge has also won a much less impressive Academy Award. Whatever. Massey Hall (178 Victoria Street), 8 p.m., $35–$100.
FILM: The Toronto Film Society presents part four of their series of film noir double features. Tonight at Innis Town Hall, watch 1948 noir rarity Hollow Triumph, followed by 1953 cop drama The City That Never Sleeps. For more information, visit the Toronto Film Society's MySpace. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), 7:30 p.m., $15.
KIDS: Everyone's favourite purple dinosaur is performing live at Ontario Place all this week. Barney can dance, sing, and look good in colourful outfits. Needless to say, it's a really busy day for events here in Toronto. Ontario Place, 10 a.m., $30 (for an Ontario Place Play All Day Pass).
Photo of Metronomy from their MySpace.
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These are great posts, but I find that I wish I had known about these events in advance before they day they were actualy happening.
I was just about to come in here and say that...
What's up with a "daily planner" being posted at like... 10am (not sure what the exact time was, but it can't have been that early) on the day of? Not meaning to sound ungrateful, I just mean... if the post were to have more relevance, it'd make sense to have it the day before (for us shameful 905ers).
We've considered this pretty carefully, so I'm definitely sorry that it's not entirely working for both of you.
Since it started, Urban Planner has been published every day at 10 a.m. (the first comment above was made at 10:05), which is actually earlier than Gothamist and many other -ist sites run their daily event listings. We do try to give entire posts to events that justify lots of advanced warning or special attention, like Andrew's Sony Centre giveaway post, but otherwise we've been reducing the number of events posts we have and rolling a lot of what we would have otherwise written about into daily Urban Planners. That's good on our end: it means we can actually write about more events, while simultaneously having fewer articles dedicated to them.
There are all sorts of reasons, little and big, for why we've set up the listings as we do it now. For one, I think that having regular grouped daily event listings on any day but the day that the events take place on (say, posting on Monday morning about Tuesday's events) would cause more trouble and confusion than the straightforward existing format. And if we did them much earlier, we would also not be able to discover some of the events that we discover or are sent to us late.
If there's something we can do to make Urban Planner's format more accomodating to the majority of readers we'll try it, but—I think—this format is so far the best possible option.
I went to this. I was super excited for metronomy but the social didn't have their shit together and so the band didn't even go on.