Ear to the Ground is taking over the Gibsone Jessop Gallery in the Distillery District June 25th for Eyes to the Ground a night of shoegazer pop music. Proceeds from the night’s event will go to support the eagerly anticipated September independent arts festival. Other than the warm feeling that comes with supporting an independent art festival, the $7 ticket price gets you into an excellent space with live performances from As the Poets Affirm,... [continue]

Tall Poppy Interview - Jason & Bertrand, Amuse-Bouche Chefs & Owners... [continue]

Bob Geldof, the Nobel Prize winning, hunger hating, debt relieving, musician and activist, officially announced Toronto as the Canadian location for Live 8. With less than a month to go before the July 2nd concert and Canada Day events taking place all over the city the on the 1st, planning Live 8 is going to involve a lot of tough decision making. Where is it going to be? Who’s going to play? Torontoist comes through... [continue]

Using ‘stock’ to describe a festival/event is lamos like John Stamos. Woofstock was at least a somewhat funny play on words, but calling a little street festival complete with a children’s village and craft centre Bloorstock is as poorly thought out as this post. Stocks used to be cool, but now they’re just boring. Bloor Street’s stock takes place Sunday June 12th from noon to 6pm on Bloor Street between Spadina and Bathurst. The street... [continue]

On Sunday June 5th from 11:30am – 5:30pm the Harbourfront will be host to a showcase of all things herb. Well most things herb. This year marks the 15th annual “Herb Fair” a.k.a. “A Celebration of Herbs” in Toronto. The event, sponsored by the Ontario Herbalists Association, features a herb marketplace, explanations on how to best use herbs in cooking, information on how to grow medicinal herbs in your garden, experts on native Southern Ontario... [continue]

The events leading up to Ear to the Ground, Toronto’s newest independent arts festival, are already starting. The festival itself takes place later this summer, but before it begins there will be a series of events across the city. Like tomorrow night for example. Thursday June 2nd, Ear to the Ground are taking over the Bloor Cinema for an evening of vampire like fun. It all starts at 9:30 with a live performance by Vampire... [continue]

Toronto residents have it good when it comes to food, especially when it’s on TV. This summer the toaster traveling chef Bob Blumer, will be filming a new episode of The Surreal Gourmet at a Toronto wedding. In fact, he wants to cater the wedding and hasn’t yet decided which wedding it will be. It could be your wedding if you ask nicely. The details: If you have a small wedding (25ish people) coming up... [continue]

Aprilage Development Inc, a branch of William Shatner’s Toronto based company C.O.R.E., has designed a software program that shows you two images of what you will look like in 20 years; one as a smoker, the other as a non-smoker. They call the software The Amazing Aging Machine. Aprilage recently visited a middle school in Buffalo to participate in the school’s anti-tobacco program and it seems like they made an impression. Kids generally don’t care... [continue]

Weren’t these guys bankrupt all last year? Now ACE Aviation Holdings, Air Canada’s parent company, are the number three largest maintenance, repair and overhaul operators in the world. They just won a lucrative $1.5 billion deal with the newly merged US Air-American West airline. In addition, Air Canada are investing $95 million into US Air-American West, giving then a 7% ownership of the newly merged company. Air Canada has certainly been productive in the past... [continue]

It’s great living in a city that attracts such a diverse cross-section of musical acts every weekend. From indie rock to loser rock, from hip hop to hop-scotch, from classical to jazz, you’re bound to find something. Tonight Old Soul are playing the Santa Cruz party at Lee’s Palace tonight, $8. See here. Zoilus’ site says that “live-video-feed make-out (and sometimes more) booth, Mars Volta apres-festivities” are part of the show. Eye’s got the story... [continue]

At 9pm tonight Fabian Marcaccio, an artist from New York, will be directing a firing squad of 8 paint-ball gun wielding painters at the AGO. Fabian will be making a large scale painting on the walls of Weston Hall, which happens to be the front lobby. While this is going on, a band will be performing an original score written for this event by Claudio Baroni, the South American composer. This will be unique performance... [continue]

Craig White, Graphic Designer... [continue]

Yes, The Arcade Fire are playing their last of three sold out shows at the Danforth Music Hall tonight. And it's true concert reviews from the past two nights have been favourable. Tonight will be just as good, if not better. Like the past two nights, tonight’s show is sold out. If you have the money for it, scalped tickets are anywhere from $40 to $120. But don’t buy a scalped ticket from that jerk... [continue]

Neil Haverty, The Boston Letter... [continue]

Phoenix will surprise you. This seemingly skipped over Parisian band are known to put on an amazing show and have the music to back it up. Phoenix are a synth-pop rock band that play a fairly eclectic range of music, but holding it all together are truly enjoyable well written songs. They are making their first Toronto appearance tonight at the Opera House and it hasn’t sold out yet. If you are looking for something... [continue]

Tall Poppy Interview: Gayla Trail, author/photographer, You Grow Girl... [continue]

If the weather doesn’t remind you that spring has already started, then maybe the barrage of gardening books lining the walls of Chapters will help. One of those books is written by local Toronto photoblogger and designer Gayla Trail. "You Grow Girl" is a ‘how to’ guide to gardening that is especially useful for city folk. It’s full of great pictures and illustrations and it’s written in a light and humourous way. Tonight, starting at... [continue]

The Tall Poppy Interview - Rannie Turingan, Photojunkie... [continue]

World traveller and star of Lonely Planet/Pilot Guides for about seven years, Ian Wright will be bringing tales of his adventures to Toronto again this year. If you have ever had the good fortune of backpacking to some foreign land (Whitby doesn’t count) then you probably have a few good stories to tell about your trip. Now, imagine that trip lasting seven years and covering pretty much the whole Globe. These are the stories you... [continue]

This Torontoist couldn’t make a flower grow on the sunniest and wettest day of the year, in a jungle. Does that even make sense? While we don’t know anything about gardening, a lot of other people do, like the people running this year’s Canada Blooms, the Toronto Flower & Garden Show. The Canada Blooms event includes about 200 retailers who know all about growing plants and making gardens. The show is expected to attract nearly... [continue]