Deborah Samuel’s photo-based artwork, now showing at the Royal Ontario Museum, is eerily life-affirming in its exploration of death. Called Elegy, the show consists of 33 images of delicate, white bone structures—10 of them belonging to animal skeletons in the ROM’s collection—on infinite-seeming black backgrounds. On Tuesday, the room was alive with conversation, thanks to [...]

DOORS OPEN: Ever walked by a huge, historical-looking building and thought, “Gee, I wonder what it looks like on the inside?” Wonder no more. Doors Open Toronto invites buildings across Toronto that are generally closed to the public to open their doors to all for a weekend of delight and discovery (no golden ticket required). [...]

It’s one of our city’s best annual events: Doors Open Toronto, wherein we all get to explore the nooks, crannies, and usually hidden corners of buildings we generally can’t access. There are more than 135 buildings opening their doors this year, and among them are several dozen new ones that haven’t been on the list [...]

Script Tease Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Avenue) May 28–June 3, various times $15–$20 Here’s how a Script Tease works: Ten playwrights submit the first two pages of a new play. Those pages are sealed in individual envelopes. Over the course of a week, three performers from the renowned improv theatre company The National Theatre [...]

MARCH: Has it really been just a year since equal rights and feminist activists created SlutWalk, a clever protest to combat “violence, victim-blaming, and sex shaming?” The Toronto event was quickly imitated around the world, but equal rights and sexuality advocates can be proud that it started here in T.O.—we were, enough to call them [...]

By one o’clock in the afternoon on May 22, two entirely opposing groups of spectators had formed in the Distillery District awaiting the arrival of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. One of them lined Trinity Street all the way down to Distillery Lane: camera-toting clumps of people checking watches and straining [...]

MUSICAL: RENT RENT RENT RENT REEEEENT! Jonathan Larson’s magnum opus returns to Toronto for a month-long run at Lower Ossington Theatre. This musical, based off Puccini’s opera La bohème, tells the tale of a struggling group of bohemians who must come to terms with their own lives and what it truly means to pay rent [...]

POLITICS: Women in journalism, education, politics, activism, and social media will gather tonight for the first of two Women in Toronto Politics (#WiTOpoli) panel discussions. Tonight’s participants include active #TOpoli tweeters Alicia Pang (also a Torontoist illustrator) and Nadia Swaby, Xtra‘s Andrea Houston, and former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson, who will examine the ways women [...]

“Five, four, three, two, one—go!” Cindy Rozeboom shouted into the megaphone. And with that, paint-soaked sponges flew over the crowd and The Art of the Danforth commenced. Just past the intersection of Greenwood and Danforth Avenues at 1 p.m. on Saturday, several tubs of paint and a border of pylons fenced in about 150 people [...]

SOUL: Toronto’s Elise Legrow, already well known locally as the livewire lead frontwoman for rock band Whale Tooth, has been steadily rising up the adult contemporary radio charts with her solo debut single “No Good Woman“, which is poised to crack the top 5 slot on Canadian charts. Legrow is performing her first Toronto solo [...]

CIRCUS: If you’ve ever wanted to run away and join the circus, your chances of being able to do so are about to increase tenfold. The Toronto International Circus Festival brings performers, acrobatics, and comedy together for a weekend of mayhem and wonder. Brought to you by the Zero Gravity Circus, this event features circus [...]

QUEER PARTY: The Royal Ontario Museum’s ROM Friday Night Live series is just a few weeks old, but already phenomenally buzzed about, attracting a diverse crowd of people who want to see and be seen, and people who just like getting into the museum for cheap. Tonight’s crowd will be even more diverse than the [...]