In this Weekend Planner: a mix of new and old art markets; a retrospective of a long-running music festival; a long-running rock festival; the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, and the newly pronounced Toronto Outdoor Art Day; an all-night performance-art sleepover; a Smiths and Morrissey–themed karaoke night; and great performances at the Fringe Festival.

In today's Urban Planner, Scott Pilgrim's final chapter inspires a street festival, Trampoline Hall raises funds for This Ain't The Rosedale Library, We Are Scientists play the 'Shoe, and Marcia Johnson hosts an evening of music, comedy, and karaoke in support of her upcoming Summerworks play Say Ginger Ale.

Creation The Toronto International Film Festival begins tonight with opening-night gala Creation, a controversial choice not because of the subject matter (Charles Darwin) but because it’s only the third time a non-Canadian film has opened the festival. Surprising, but Festival Co-director Cameron Bailey stated that they “fell in love with this movie,” and we felt [...]

Reel Asian is a festival that, we must admit, we’ve never made it out to before. Along with a couple of the other fall festivals (imagineNATIVE, Planet in Focus), we make a point of browsing the lineup for something worth making an appointment to see and then, whether we find something or not, inevitably forget [...]

This Thursday marks the premiere of Toronto’s Hip-Hop Karaoke night. Brought to you by Never Forgive Action and Earwaks, and hosted by local rapper More or Les (who was interviewed by Torontoist last spring) and local DJs Dalia, Numeric and Ted Dancin’, this party promises to be more than your basic karaoke night. First of [...]

Each of these exclamations could be questions due to their outright absurdity, don’t you think? - The brand new Villiage People line-up! - The brand new Sandy Cohen album! He was on Canada AM this morning…Question mark. - Korean-town karaoke vs. Dictionary-Karaoke! - David Lynch, the weatherman! - The interview! - Late Night with the [...]