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Weekend Planner: November 21–22, 2009
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse
FESTIVAL: Toronto's annual Taste of the Danforth festival returns tonight and runs until Sunday. Along with the usual smorgasbord of excellent Greek food come expected crowds of over 500,000, and a healthy serving of ambivalence. Danforth Avenue from Broadview Avenue to Jones Avenue, 6 p.m., FREE.
INTERNET: Inspired by last year's mass YouTube community gathering in New York, the Ontario Science Centre is holding Canada's first large-scale YouTube meetup. Besides the usual attractions at the Science Centre, visitors can also enjoy outdoor fun, including an open mic stage for acoustic performers and the immense pleasure of watching internet drama turn into real life drama. The event is hosted by Rogers TV's The Conventioneers. Ontario Science Centre (770 Don Mills Road), 7 p.m., $20.
ART: Visual artists from across Canada were approached to each submit an original design for a one inch button. Of those submissions, fifty were chosen to display at this year's third annual One Inch Punch: The Button Show. Buttons will be for sale in random packages of five, and trading is encouraged in case you don't get the pin you want. Lennox Contemporary Gallery (12 Ossington Avenue), 8 p.m., FREE.
ART: The Whippersnapper Gallery is having an opening reception tonight for their new showcase, Everything Taken. The exhibit features works by Jimmy Palfero, Heli Prajapati, Johan Hallberg-Campbell, and Jade Lee Portelli. For more information about the showcase, visit the Whippersnapper Gallery's website. Whippersnapper Gallery (587A College Street), 7 p.m., FREE.
Photo by gerrychu from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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Taste of the Danforth:
10,000 people walking east on the north side of Danforth
10,000 people walking west on the south side of Danforth
5000 people walking against the flow
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25,000 people unable to find anything to eat. It's a nightmare.
Whoa. That photo just screams "frustration and panic attack." Can't say I'm interested!
Sheesh, look at all those crabby people in the centre of the photo. No wonder they call us Seriousville.
Taste of the Pizza Pizza.
Maybe I'm jaded or I've been downtown too long, but I dread all these festivals. The crowds and the heat render them all highly unenjoyable. Beautiful neighbourhoods like the Danforth, Beaches, and St. Lawrence Market are nice to wander around in on a normal day. Why does everyone need to come at once?
I already dread Buskerfest next weekend in my neighbourhood. As I did for Woofstock, I'll have to reschedule my weekend outings around it to avoid the height of the crowds. I understand that these events bring in money and are hence supported by the local BIAs, but in a way it's like they are kicking their regular customers (you know, the ones who keep them in business the rest of the year) in the balls by rendering their own neighbourhoods nightmarishly uninhabitable for 2 or 3 days. Thanks, guys.
Don't we have places like Harbourfront, the Ex, Center Island, Dundas Square, Nathan Phillips Square, Downsview, and so on where we can stage large festivals without taking over public streets?
pukegreen - Those locations are already booked by Rogers/Telus/Scotiabank/Virgin/Coke for informative consumer outreach edutainment events.
Okay, I guess I'm weird - I like when things like this come to my neighbourhood. I'm looking forward to Buskerfest next week. I don't have to drive, I can head home when I've had enough, I get to see lots of new things. We had a great time at Woof-stock and we don't own a dog.