In today's Urban Planner, the SummerWorks Festival continues with circus acts, new musicals, and puppet shows; Bad Dog Theatre launches a week-long festival celebrating their successful alumni and current performers; and bands from London and Tokyo make stops in our town.

Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we’ll feature one of those portraits here. Stephen Eyes puts his catchy name to good use. Eyes on Toronto is a live TV talk show held monthly at the Gladstone Hotel. Tonight, Eyes banters with [...]

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! There are a whole lot of photographic crowd pleasers in this shot by Flickr pool contributor End User: a fisheye lens, [...]

So you wake up, make a cup of coffee, go outside to grab the newspaper in your PJs and suddenly notice that your regular copy of The Globe and Mail has been replaced with a more different copy of The Globe and Mail. One with ugly black divider bars scattered across the front page and [...]

Photo by David Topping. As far as picking memorable band names go, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin may be on to something. Right up there with I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness as the best independent-clause-turned-band-name, the Missouri band — in town last night with Chicago’s Chin Up Chin Up at Sneaky Dee’s [...]

It seems pretty appropriate that we just had Groundhog Day, given that we’re feeling a little bit like Bill Murray looking at the concert listings this week. Not only is there very little going on, but most of the bands who are playing seem to be here every week (Apostle of Hustle, The Tragically Hip, [...]

Everyone recovered from V-Fest yet? No? What’s wrong with you? Better take your vitamins and Red Bull then, because there’s a lot going on this week. Notably, Ms. Emily Haines will be playing four (that’s right, 4!) shows in a span of three days (incl. V-Fest), so if you think you’re tired… If this isn’t [...]

Tonight, the Horseshoe Tavern plays host to the Pitchfork/Secretly Canadian Indie Rock Triple-Header. This is a chance to see three awesome bands you’ve probably never heard of… but who everyone will be talking about in a few months. If you want to get ahead of the curve, read on. San Francisco’s Birdmonster headline the night. [...]