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Urban Planner: January 17, 2012

In today's Urban Planner: Stop by the Toronto Reference Library for a talk with international best-selling author Sara Paretsky, Dancemakers is presenting a festival of duets with three different programs, and Toronto band Hands & Teeth is hitting the Horseshoe stage.

LITERATURE: Best-selling author Sara Paretsky will sit down with the Toronto Star’s James Grainger tonight to talk about her newest thriller, Breakdown. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the first novel where she introduced her famous protagonist, V. I. Warshawski, and her work with the character has been attracting strong critical praise for years. [...]

Urban Planner: February 26, 2009

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 [...]

Urban Planner: February 14, 2009

Candy-heart pins on sale at a previous year’s Erotic Arts and Crafts Fair. Photo courtesy of Come As You Are. CRAFTS: As we mentioned in our Valentine’s Day preview post last week, there is lots to see and do today. For a relatively inexpensive but unique shopping experience, there’s the Gladstone’s annual Erotic Arts & [...]

Modern Dance is Fun!

Dancemakers just closed its latest show last night at Harbourfront’s Premiere Dance Theatre. Called Double Bill # 1, the show consisted of two pieces danced by the company choreographed by different artists. Though quite different, both pieces explored the repetition of physical actions and the idea of “covers.” The music was provided entirely by local [...]