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Streeter: Bypass Lavalife Edition

Overheard at the Art Square Cafe on Dundas near McCaul. Woman: Meeting people in this city is hard. Toronto is a city of joiners. The only way to get a date is to join a sports league! Hear something? Send it to streeter@torontoist.com.

Fringe: Zombies in Kensington

Not all Fringe shows happen at the main or studio spaces of the big three (Tarragon, Muraille, Factory); some are in school basements (like Eve Ensler’s A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and a Prayer), others are in smaller theatres (like the Robert Gill or Glen Morris), and others take place in bars. The Cameron [...]

Snappy Answers: To Beard or Not To Beard?

Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. So, beards. Is there some sort of general Toronto women consensus on whether they are appealing or appalling? Is the fact that I have a beard of a length that is less two-day stubble and more, say, dude from [...]

Sex and Our City: A Degree of Separation

What’s better than sex? Maybe writing about sex. Sex and Our City is a special week-long series that looks for questions and answers about love and sex in our city.

Ride The Wavelength This Month

Weekly indie institution Wavelength started in 1999, setting up shop at Ted’s Wrecking Yard, then bouncing between venues until landing at its current home, Sneaky Dee’s, in 2002. Past performers read like a who’s-who of home grown indie music: Great Lake Swimmers, The Bicycles, Cadence Weapon, Julie Doiron, Peaches, Final Fantasy, Feist—and the list goes [...]

Griffins, Squirrels, The Giller…Oh My!

If you’d like weekly emails full of Toronto literary listings, sign up at Patchy Squirrel, a new offering from Stuart Ross and Dani Couture. Stuart launches a new collection of poetry, I Cut My Finger (Anvil Press) with Kate Sutherland’s All In Together Girls (fiction from Thistledown Press) Sunday, April 22, 8 p.m. at Clintons [...]

Five Lit Events To “Scream” About

The Scream Literary Festival is back and we decided to highlight a few of the lit’s festival choice events for your perusal: 1) Tonight’s opening gala at the Gladstone features GG award winner Dionne Brand and Euoniac Christian Bok among others. Free. 2) Poet Lisa Robertson reads her new collection The Men over a four [...]

Funds for the Royal Rat Coffers

Maggie MacDonald is a busy woman. As one of the most visible members of the Hidden Cameras, MacDonald is often seen on Toronto’s stages bopping along to Joel Gibb’s catchy anthems to enemas, fear of commitment and golden showers. MacDonald also plays in a number of other bands in the city including the Dating Service [...]

He Said She Said: Less Meat, More Bite

Torontoist believes that this sudden burst of summer weather has something to do with the excitement for part three of the he said/she said Summer Dating guide. This week, we take a look at some of the city’s best places to eat on a date, with a focus on both vegetarian and carnivorous diets. And [...]