Photo by Meaghan Ogilvie courtesy of Artist Project Toronto.

ART: Tonight, the Liberty Grand hosts the opening night preview for Artist Project Toronto. In addition to bringing together works by close to one-hundred-and-fifty artists, this year’s exhibition also features a series of enlightening seminars, a contest for up-and-coming artists, and a chocolate competition (in which artists create works based on the theme of, you guessed it, chocolate!). A portion of the opening-night proceeds will go to charity, and an after party is slated for the Drake Hotel. The show runs to March 8, with various hours and ticket prices; see their website for full details. The Liberty Grand (25 British Columbia Road), 7–10 p.m., $25.
ART: The CONTACT Photography Festival is still a couple of months away, but CONTACT’s first-ever fundraiser hits the Burroughes Building tonight. Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased online or by calling 416-539-9595. For an extra $25, you get entered in an open draw for prizes, including Porter Airline flights, Roots bags, and artist prints. Burroughes Building (639 Queen Street West), 8 p.m.–3 a.m., $75–$100.
MUSIC: Clinton’s is hosting the first-ever accessible concert for the deaf and hard of hearing tonight, featuring “emoti-chairs,” interpreters, captions, music visualizations, and REALLY LOUD music. Fox Jaws, The Dufraines, ill.gates, Stéphane Vera, and Hollywood Swank are scheduled to perform. Clinton’s Tavern (693 Bloor Street West), 8 p.m., $5 suggested donation.
WORDS: Media Action hosts a public forum tonight to press for changes in advertising. In partnership with Shameless Magazine and the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, “Beauty (Mis)represented: What’s the Matter With Airbrushing Advertisements?” will feature a demonstration of digital manipulation of images and a panel discussion to debate the issue from all sides. Room 5-280 at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (252 Bloor Street West), 7:30 p.m., FREE.
WORDS: Spacing is sponsoring “A Rust Belt Requiem?” tonight, a panel discussion at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre. Supported by an array of photographic and video evidence, the panel will focus on the history and current state of factory towns—both as reality and cultural idea—as well as the issues these communities confront. A Q&A will follow the discussion. Space is limited, so your best bet to get in is to register by e-mailling rustbeltrequiem@gmail.com. Campbell Conference Room in The Munk Centre (1 Devonshire Place), 6–8 p.m., FREE.
MUSIC: The Rivoli hosts a Confidential Records showcase tonight, with an eclectic line up of indie artists including folk artist Karyn Ellis, singer/songwriter Chris Gostling, and indie rockers The Little Deaths. DJ Chili Banks will also contribute a set of music to the festivities. The cover charge includes a compilation CD featuring the artists. Rivoli (334 Queen Street West), 8:30 p.m., $8.

Evan Munday prepares the Stripmalling display in Pages’ windows yesterday. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist.

WORDS: This is Not a Reading Series presents a book launch tonight at the Gladstone Hotel. Stripmalling, by author Jon Paul Fiorentino and illustrator Evan Munday, tells the story of one young man’s embarrassing and hilarious journey to literary awareness. The evening will begin with a screening of the short film The Way Of The Smock: The Making Of Stripmalling, followed by a discussion with Fiorentino and Munday (facilitated by author Zoe Whittall). Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $5 (free with book purchase).
FESTIVAL: Today marks the kick-off of the inaugural FIRESIDE Culture Week, presented by the Parkdale BIA. FIRESIDE is a week-long celebration of art, fashion, food, music, and theatre, all taking place in Parkdale. A slate of opening night celebrations include fire-spinning, martial arts, dance, magic, and live music at Mitzi’s Sister (1554 Queen Street West) 7–10 p.m.; poetry, prose, juggling, humour, and dance at Good Catch (1556 Queen Street West), 9 p.m.; and Mo’ Music Monday, a night of live music with Sean Cotton of the Undesirables, at Not My Dog (1510 Queen Street West), 10 p.m.–1 a.m. The festival runs through March 7. Check the Parkdale BIA website for full details.
FILM: Bruce McDonald fans, take note: the Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) presents a sneak preview of McDonald’s latest flick, Pontypool. A psychological thriller in which a deadly virus infects a small Ontario town, Pontypool has been called the smartest sci-fi genre film since Primer. McDonald will be in attendance for a Q&A following the screening. There are limited free passes still available for people who can make it to the CINSSU office (Room 107 at Innis College) today, and a rush line will be available at the event for non-passholders. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), 7 p.m., FREE.
LECTURE: Throughout the month of March, the Royal Conservatory of Music will be offering a series of lectures and master classes, all open to the public. Today’s installment belongs to the critically acclaimed Irish pianist John O’Conor, who has been called a true “Poet of the Piano.” Royal Conservatory of Music (273 Bloor Street West), 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., FREE.
ART: In advance of an opening reception on Friday, March 6 (from 7–10 p.m.), the Whippersnapper Gallery offers previews of “Play/Pause” beginning tonight. Presented by the Visual Arts Students Association of York University, “Play/Pause” is a group show by undergraduate students, offering up an eclectic collection of works from various disciplines including drawing, sculpture, painting, print, photography, and performance. The show continues through March 13. Whippersnapper Gallery (587A College Street), 11 a.m.–7 p.m., FREE.

Photo by Miles Storey from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

MUSIC: We’ve been following the qualifying rounds since the first week, and tonight the Fifth Annual Karaoke Superstar Contest Finale hits the Gladstone Hotel‘s Melody Bar. Go cheer on your favourite finalists from the previous three weeks as they battle it out in front of a panel of local celebrity judges, featuring two former Canadian Idol contestants (Sebastion Piggot and Katelyn Dawn), the “trashtastic” Ryan G. Hinds, and the Gladstone Cowboy himself, Hank Young. The winner will receive a grand prize of $1,000 and the coveted title of Karaoke Superstar! Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), 9 p.m.–2 a.m., FREE.
FILM: The Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum presents the next installment of their Street Art Film Series tonight. Bomb It uses interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on five continents to trace the story of graffiti, from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings through the explosion in New York City during the ’70s and ’80s and onto its spread around the globe. Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), 7 p.m., $10, $8 students & seniors, $6 Friends of ICC.
ART: The Liberty is hosting an opening reception tonight, as the Elliott Contemporary unveils “Directions in Abstraction, Part 1,” their second exhibition of 2009. Featuring a collection of works by four Canadian artists (Mitchell F. Chan, Stanley Feldman, Lorne Wisebrod, and Mary Wong), the show examines the referential nature of abstract forms and how they come to signify something the viewer recognizes and understands. The show runs to March 21. The Liberty (25 Liberty Street), 6 p.m., FREE.
COMEDY: Today is Lunch Money Day, and there are two related items worth mentioning. First, Second City will be supporting the cause by donating $5 for every ticket sold today (at their box office or online), up to a maximum of $10,000, which is equal to 20,000 meals. On a somewhat smaller scale (but no less noteworthy), local comedian Todd Van Allen is hosting a comedy night at McVeigh’s Pub with the entire door going to Second Harvest. McVeigh’s Pub (124 Church Street), 9:30 p.m., $5.
DANCE: In The Part, presented by local dance company Dancemakers, Antonija Livingstone examines social and performative roles, particularly the “traits they share and fascinations they hold.” This is the first Toronto showing for Livingstone, who has mounted successful performances in Vancouver, Montreal, and Europe. The show continues through Saturday, February 28. Dancemakers’ Centre for Creation, Studio 313 in the Cannery Building, The Distillery District (55 Mill Street), 8 p.m., $18–$22.
LECTURE: Ryerson’s Department of Architectural Science, in association with the School of Urban and Regional Planning, presents a roundtable discussion today at the Ryerson Architecture Building. The theme is The Contemporary Urban Waterfront: from Toronto to Dubai, and panellists will reflect on urban waterfronts as a global condition, contemplating their collective pasts, presents, and potentially diverse futures. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session. Room 202 (the PIT) of the Ryerson Architecture Building (325 Church Street), 4 p.m., FREE.

Photo courtesy of Columbia Artists Management Inc. (CAMI).

STAGE: Internationally acclaimed acrobatic troupe the National Acrobats of China make their Massey Hall debut tonight. Founded in 1956, the troupe has won numerous acrobatic competitions over the years and thrilled audiences the world over. Their stage show combines martial arts, illusion, and (duh) acrobatics, set to traditional Chinese music. Massey Hall (178 Victoria Street), 7 p.m., $29.50–$49.50.
WORDS: This Is Not A Reading Series continues its celebration of Black History Month with the launch of I Am My Father’s Son, a memoir by Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Hill. Hill, who found international success in the ’70s and ’80s with a string of soft rock hits, documents his stormy relationship with his father, Daniel Grafton Hill III, a man who has been called Canada’s father of human rights. Hill will perform a few songs and discuss the politics of fatherhood, human rights, and the international music business with journalist Marci Ien. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $5 (free with book purchase).
FILM: The Toronto Film Society presents a double bill of rare Brit flicks tonight at Innis Town Hall. The Phantom Light (1935) is a comedy-drama about the clash between Welsh locals and the Londoners in town to investigate the murder of a lighthouse keeper. Train of Events (1949) is a compilation of four stories about train passengers whose lives intersect in a gripping finale. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), 7:30 p.m., $15.
MUSIC: The Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra present the second installment of their Five Small Concerts series at Trinity St. Paul’s United Church. Tonight features members of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra performing a varied programme of chamber music. This is a great chance to see talented young performers who will be the solo artists and orchestra musicians of the future. Trinity St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor Street West), 7:30 p.m., $18, $15 students/seniors.
LECTURE: Get your Canadian history fix at the 2009 Keith Davey Lecture today at the Isabel Bader Theatre. This year’s lecture, “The Lives and Lessons of Lester Pearson,” delivered by Andrew Cohen (journalist, author, and professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University), will examine Pearson’s role as one of the founders of modern Canada. Cohen’s recently published Lester B. Pearson was named by The Globe and Mail as one of the hundred top books of 2008. Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles Street West), 4:30 p.m., FREE (seating is limited).
DANCE: Tonight’s your last chance to catch Barbara Lindenberg’s A True Lady of Mystery at the Tranzac Main Hall. Two years in the making, A True Lady of Mystery is a collection of seven pieces for eight dancers inspired by dream imagery and stories from Lindenberg’s past. Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue), 8 p.m., $15.

Stills of Next: A Primer on Urban Painting from the film’s website.

FILM: The Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum presents Next: A Primer on Urban Painting by director Pablo Aravena. As part of the Street Art Film Series exploring the history, politics, and future of street art around the world, the film uses footage of street artists in action and interviews with various participants in the subculture to convey the dynamism and creativity of this emerging artistic movement. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director. Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), 7 p.m., $10, $8 students & seniors, $6 Friends of ICC.
ART: Last year, OCAD’s Material Art & Design program issued an open call to jewellery and metalsmithing students across Canada to “free themselves of the masks and facades of society” and to submit their designs for consideration in an exhibition. “Secret Identity” is the result, bringing together “courageously intimate” works from all over the country and showcasing Canada’s emerging talent in jewellery design. The exhibition runs through March 14. OCAD Student Gallery (285 Dundas Street West), 5–7 p.m., FREE.
MUSIC: The Horseshoe Tavern hosts A Double Shot of Music, celebrating releases by two independent Toronto artists: singer-songwriter Pamela Brennan and local roots rock veterans Jay Clark and the Jones. Brennan’s debut solo release, One Hundred Photographs, is filled with songs of “everyday life and extraordinary experiences,” inspired by trips taken and people met along the way. Jay Clark and the Jones unleash their third disc, Blue Cholera, which filters themes of faith and societal breakdown through a working class lens. The show also features special guest opening act, Jack Breakfast. Horseshoe Tavern (370 Queen Street West) doors 8:30 p.m., $8.
THEATRE: Harbourfront Centre‘s World Stage season continues with the critically acclaimed Tshepang, from playwright Lara Foot Newton. Set in South Africa and based on actual events, Tshepang uses striking visual imagery and symbolic set design to tell the story of the highly publicized trial of six men wrongly accused of the brutal sexual assault of a child. Ultimately, in spite of the difficult subject matter, the play is a story of love, redemption, and forgiveness in the face of an appalling situation. Play runs through Saturday, February 21. Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre (235 Queens Quay West), 8 p.m., $30.

Photo by phocrastinating from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

FILM: It’s Family Day, and the NFB Cinema is celebrating with two free programs featuring a great mix of new and classic award-winning shorts. Screening at 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m., program one features The Log Driver’s Waltz, Léon in Wintertime, The Sweater, and The Danish Poet (winner of the 2007 Oscar for best animated short). Program two (screening at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.) features an equally strong lineup, with Asthma Tech, Glasses, The Dingles, and The Cat Came Back. As always, NFB Mediatheque also offers thousands of titles that can be viewed any time at their digital viewing stations. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), various times, FREE.
ANIMALS: For animal lovers, the Toronto Zoo is offering fifty per cent off regular admission prices. In addition to taking in all the usual animal exhibits, visitors can learn about the family trees of many animals and enter a contest to win a free family zoo membership. Toronto Zoo (361A Old Finch Avenue), 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., $10 adults, $7 seniors, $6 children (ages four-twelve), including discount (children three and under get in free).
FESTIVAL: The Beach BIA presents the Family Day Festival in the Beach. Now in its second year, the festival offers a wide range of family-friendly activities. Highlights include face painting, magic shows, petting zoo, and a scavenger hunt. Several area businesses are offering discounts and specials to visitors, with most of the day’s events centred around the Beach United Church (east and west locations) and Kew Gardens. Check the festival website for full details. The Beach (2075 Queen Street East), 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., FREE.
FILM: It’s the last day of Ozflix at the ROM, and the programmers have saved some real gems to close out the festival. Solo (screening at 2:45 p.m. with Paper Dolls) tells the story of Andrew McAuley and his attempt to be the first solo kayaker to complete the dangerous ocean crossing between Australia and New Zealand. This is followed at 5 p.m. by Great Australia Albums: Go-Betweens, 16 Lovers Lane, which profiles Aussie band The Go-Betweens, the making of their melancholy pop masterpiece (the album 16 Lovers Lane), and the subsequent breakup of the band due to poor sales (screening with Great Australia Albums: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Murder Ballads). All screenings take place at the Signy and Cleophee Eaton Theatre. Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), various times, $10 per screening ($8 students/seniors).
COMEDY: The Bad Dog Theatre Company continues their weekly run of Monday Macro, upstairs at the Black Swan Tavern. Billed as “Bad Dog and Beer, together at last,” the show is an extension of their popular Macro Neato Friday nights and features a rotating cast of players performing two solid sets of improv. The Black Swan Tavern (154 Danforth Avenue), 8 p.m., $5.
DANCE: Dance and choreographer Barbara Lindenberg brings her latest project, A True Lady of Mystery, to the Tranzac Main Hall for two shows (tonight and next Monday, February 23). Two years in the making, A True Lady of Mystery is a collection of seven pieces for eight dancers inspired by dream imagery and stories from Lindenberg’s past. In addition to Lindenberg, the cast is rounded out by Toronto dancers Corrin Adams, Andrya Duff, Lara Ebata, Mairéad Filgate, Natalie Fullerton, Meredith Thompson, and Holly Treddenick, with musical accompaniment by local musicians Jennifer Castle (voice, guitar), Jonathan Adjemian (piano), and Jason Benoit (banjo). Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick Avenue), 8 p.m., $15.

Photo by Daniel Bray from the Torontoist Flickr Pool

ART: Funktion Gallery scores a coup with the opening of A Mysterious Date with Anser today. Anser is the engimatic artist behind the faces that have been popping up around the city for the past year (we featured them twice last year on Vandalist). The show continues to February 21 with various hours. Funktion Gallery (1244 Bloor Street West), 11 a.m.–11 p.m., FREE.
THEATRE: Soulpepper kicks off their 2009 season with Tom Stoppard‘s comedic masterpiece, Travesties. The play throws together Vladimir Lenin, James Joyce, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara, as filtered through the faulty memory of its main character, one Henry Wilfred Carr, a minor official at the British Consul in Zurich circa 1917. Often described as a reinvention of Oscar Wilde‘s The Importance of Being Ernest, Travesties revels in the “sheer joy of debate” between “blazingly eloquent characters.” Continues through March 21. Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill Street, Building 49), 7:30 p.m., $34–68, students $28, rush tickets $20/$5 (21 and under).
MUSIC: Has it really been nine years? Wavelength, the long-running weekly music series, celebrates its ninth anniversary with four nights of music, featuring twenty bands at five different venues. The festival kicks off tonight with a show at The Music Gallery, with performances by Timber Timbre, Ghost Bees, and Dorit Chrysler.The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church, (197 John Street), 7 p.m., $10 or PWYC. Tonight’s gig is followed by an after show/party at the Cameron House at 11 p.m., with music by The Diableros and Loitering Heroes. Cameron House (408 Queen Street West), 11 p.m., $10 or PWYC.
PARTY: Twestival Toronto is part of a world-wide fundraising effort, with more than one hundred cities around the globe hosting meet-ups for Twitter users on the same day. The Toronto event, hosted by CiRCA, will feature live streaming of other Twestival parties and music by DJs John Papamarko, Brendan Powell, Matt Blair, Adam Crabb, and Andrew Cowan. All proceeds will go to charity: water, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing safe, clean drinking water to people in developing nations. CiRCA Nightclub (126 John Street), 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., $20.
MUSIC: Unleash your inner Axl Rose and step up to the mic at the Gladstone Hotel for the (Torontoist-approved) 5th Annual Karaoke Superstar Contest! Now in its second week of audience-judged trial heats at the Gladstone’s Melody Bar, the top four finalists from each week will battle it out in the final sing-off on February 26 for a grand prize of $1000. Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., FREE.
LECTURE: The Hand Eye Society, a new coalition dedicated to bringing together Toronto’s videogame communities (i.e., game makers and enthusiasts), is hosting a social tonight at the bar Unit in Parkdale. Paolo Pedercini of Molleindustria (known for subversive media activist games such as McDonald’s, Faith Fighter, and Oiligarchy) will be in attendance and will be discussing his next project before taking questions from the audience. Unit (1198 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., FREE.

Photo by Melissa Schwartz

MUSIC: Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, indie-pop up-and-comers High Places touch down at the Horseshoe tonight. Touring in support of their self-titled full-length album (released in September 2008), the duo of Mary Pearson and Robert Barber use samples, stuttering beats, found sounds, and household objects to shape their distinctive sound. Soft Circle round out the bill. Horseshoe Tavern, (370 Queen Street West), 9:00 p.m., $12.
MUSIC: If your musical tastes run more to singer-songwriter roots music, head down to the Dakota Tavern, where John Borra‘s Rattlesnake Choir continue their Monday night residency. Formed in 2006, the band (whose current line-up includes Borra, Sam Ferrara, Tony Benattar, Miranda Mulholland, and Michael Boguski) performs exclusively on acoustic instruments, while mixing in the odd cheese grater, slinky, and saw. Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington Avenue), 10:30 p.m., FREE.
WORDS: This month’s edition of Trampoline Hall, the informal lecture series that lets speakers talk about, well, whatever the hell they want, hits Sneaky Dee’s tonight. The line-up for the evening (curated by Margaux Williamson) features Susan Fothergill talking about “her car, a racoon, the moon, love, and another thing”; Saniya Ansari making some “Good Points”; and Michael Higginson discussing “Being in the way.” Sneaky Dee’s (431 College Street), doors at 7:30 p.m., show at 8:00 p.m. sharp, $6.
FILM: Night #2 of the Kevin Smith Fest lights up the screen at the Bloor Cinema tonight, with the pairing of Mallrats at 7:00 p.m., followed by Chasing Amy at 9:30 p.m. Chasing Amy is considered by many critics to be one of Smith’s most mature and fully realized films, while Mallrats is arguably most notable for being the first of many collaborations between Kevin Smith and actors Jason Lee and Ben Affleck (who also happen to appear in Chasing Amy). Smith will be on hand for a Q&A after each screening. Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., $15 per screening in advance, $20 at the door.
LECTURE: The group Architecture for Humanity Toronto kicks off their lecture series, The Toronto Trilogy (in 4 parts), at the Design Exchange tonight with “Episode I: Toronto Remembered.” Tonight’s panel, featuring Past-Chair of the Toronto Society of Architects Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar Frances Frisken of the Urban Studies Program at York University, and Patrick M. Cummins from the Toronto Archives, will discuss the city’s “past intentions, how closely we adhered to them, how far we departed from them, and what we have potentially gained or lost in the process of constructing our built heritage.” John Lorinc, author of The New City, will moderate. Design Exchange (234 Bay Street), 6:30 p.m., FREE ($10 suggested donation).

Photo of Nohayquiensepa courtesy of Harbourfront Centre

PERFORMANCE: Now entering its sixth year, Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH mentorship initiative helps local artists develop their unique projects. Tonight, see Aluna Theatre’s Nohaysquiensepa (Nooneknows), which is inspired by the true events about a Colombian river town on the verge of violence. Led by two-time Dora Award winner Trevor Schwellnus with choreographer Olga Barrios, the interdisciplinary workshop incorporates new media and dance. A Q&A discussion follows. Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay West), 2:30 p.m., $12 or $10 for students/seniors/arts workers.
KIDS: Yesterday, we featured the exuberant Bunch Family Dance Party: Outer Space Edition, and today is the day it goes down. Kids and adults alike have the opportunity to shake their booty and learn the robot dance from an actual robot. The sci-fi disco bash takes over CiRCA with a blowout party full of raffles, dance lessons, costumed aliens, robots, and more. Entrance includes a loot bag for each family, and a bar with refreshments is available. CiRCA (126 John St), 2–5 p.m., $10 to $12.
FILM: In addition to the cornucopia of indie films opening this weekend, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival is hosting their Chai Tea & A Movie event. It brings together award-winning works relating to the Jewish experience with a winter-warming cuppa chai. Today, see Christophe Malavoy’s generational drama Free Land (Zone Libre), based on a play by Jean-Claude Grumberg, about an elderly French peasant who shelters and protects five members of a Jewish family from the Nazis during World War II. Silver City, Richmond Hill (8771 Yonge Street), tea at 1 p.m., film at 2 p.m., $15.
LECTURE: The Royal Canadian Institute continues its winter lecture series at the University of Toronto. Dr. Doug Welch of McMaster University will present a talk entitled “Echoes of Historical Supernovae,” appropriately timed for 2009’s International Year of Astronomy (which we previously covered here). Macleod Auditorium, University of Toronto Medical Sciences Building (1 King’s College Circle), 3 p.m., FREE.
COMEDY: Meet everybody from an Indian pharmacist to a Johnny Cash karaoke king in Boca Raton this afternoon at the Al Green Theatre. Toronto-based New Zealander Deb Filler performs her new one-hander, employing comedy, music, and storytelling while playing two dozen or so characters of her own creation. Well, I’ll Tell Ya…! is comprised of vignettes based on actual people Filler has met on the road. Al Green Theatre (750 Spadina Avenue), 3 p.m., $25.