This weekend in Toronto: a festival for our four-legged friends, an animal-adoption drive, a clothing-optional bike excursion, a DJ set by Caribou, an art market, Knit in Public Day, chef-prepared food for a good cause, and see what the first days of Luminato have to offer.

In today's Urban Planner, Native art gets a new media spin, TIFF enters into its final weekend, there are more great concerts tonight than you can shake a stick at, and comedians subject themselves to the gauntlet of the Gong Show.

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Playwright, director, actor, and Harold Award co-founder Daniel MacIvor in This Is What [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. You’d think walking away with the 2008 Polaris Prize for Andorra might’ve convinced Caribou’s sole proprietor, Dan Snaith, to take an “if it ain’t [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Yonder Cowboy Smoking by Matt James. ART: The Board of Directors presents a [...]

Oh, how we wanted Holy Fuck to win the 2008 Polaris Prize. For a competition whose winner seems to be chosen on the basis of context as much as content—a year later, can anyone really argue that Patrick Watson’s album had more “artistic merit” than Feist’s?—it would have been perfect: here, after all, on the [...]