In today’s Urban Planner: lectures on Earth, the universe, and a chance to look up into the heavens; trophy figurines get the love they deserve; a statistician presents quantitative data to prove or disprove racial differences; and Lady Gaga will try to stir up some controversy at the Air Canada Centre.

MUSIC: The Mahones, The Warped 45′s, and Eugine Ripper are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fast Folk Underground concert series tonight at the legendary Dakota Tavern. The Mahones are getting ready to tour the US with Irish-American punk-rockers the Dropkick Murphys, so bail out on that financial planning appointment you had with your accountant, [...]

LECTURE: Join urban experts Brian Andrew, Mark Kingwell, and Jay Pridmore at the ROM for a discussion on large-scale urban development. The talk, Shanghai: City of the Future?, is presented by the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum and complements the ROM’s current exhibition, Shanghai Kaleidoscope. Royal Ontario Museum (in the Signy [...]