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Scene: Newmindspace Plays Capture the Flag

Pink Team vs. Blue Team fighting for victory in our downtown streets.

WHERE: Streets surrounding Nathan Phillips Square WHEN: Saturday night WHAT: This year, Newmindspace’s annual game of Capture the Flag moved north from its previous field in the financial district to the quieter, less traffic-laden environment around City Hall. Several hundred participants gathered to hear the rules and were split into two teams, wearing either a [...]

Newmindspace’s Bubble Battle Bursts on Bloor

The annual Newmindspace Dr. Seuss–inspired Bubble Battle happened this weekend at the intersection of Bloor Street West and Spadina Avenue. People brought a wide variety of weapons to Matt Cohen Parkette, a shaded game-themed space, where children and adults alike clambered over the domino sculptures, dodging clouds of soapy beads. One addition to the arsenal this year: a pie in the face for one participant.

Weekend Planner: April 2–3, 2011

This weekend in Toronto: a vintage sale to support Japan relief, a staging of an Orson Welles radio hoax, plenty of laughs for a good cause, Jane Goodall talks apes, feathers fly in an epic pillow battle, an evening of Rock Band karaoke, and a march to reclaim the word "slut."

Weekend Planner: February 12–13, 2011

This weekend in Toronto: a risque craft fair, cyclists face off on ice, some Valentine's Day burlesque, a graffiti flashmob with love, a showcase of local indie short films, a kickoff for gardening season, and Diaspora Dialogues' tribute to Black History Month.

Scene: The Big Kiss at Yonge-Dundas Square

Photos by Corbin Smith/Torontoist. WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square. WHEN: Thursday, December 2, at 6:09 p.m. WHAT: Newmindspace’s latest thing, The Big Kiss, brought couples and friends and other pairs of loved ones to kiss below Yonge-Dundas Square’s new mistletoe. (Virgin, the event’s sponsor and the ones responsible for the mistletoe, is giving $5 per kiss to [...]

Urban Planner: December 2, 2010

Today in Toronto: canoodle for charity, a crafty holiday shop-off, a new Canadian thriller premieres, and artists celebrate Santa's dark side.

Weekend Planner: November 6–7, 2010

This weekend in Toronto: the TPL offers up human books, ninjas and sporks encourage kids to embrace difference, a film festival explores issues in mental illness, fashion swappers pad their winter wardrobes, the history of Bollywood hits the Sony stage, and capture the flag returns.

Holiday Planner: July 31–August 2, 2010

This holiday long weekend in Toronto: Harbourfront Centre's Island Soul Festival brings the groove, Caribana takes to the streets, visit a vintage sale, Twilight comes to town, talking about Toronto's food, Newmindspace calls on you to use the force, and see some "live" comedy television.

The Great Bubble Battle of Toronto

After Toronto’s torrid weekend at the hands of the G20, Newmindspace’s annual Dr. Seuss–inspired Bubble Battle stepped up to sooth nerves with a gentler kind of combat this past Saturday. This year’s venue was the erstwhile official G20 protest zone in the northern end of Queen’s Park, right in the shadow of the war memorial [...]

Weekend Planner: July 3–4, 2010

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Partiers at last year’s Pride. Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. FAMILY: Weekend summer festivals [...]

One Last (Pillow) Fight for Yonge and Eglinton Square

“This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!” laughed an onlooker on Saturday afternoon, observing a crowd of people unabashedly pummeling one another with pillows. Yonge Eglinton Square was the site of this past weekend’s pillow fight, an annual event created by urban playground enthusiasts Newmindspace. After rain forced the group to [...]

Weekend Planner: May 15–16, 2010

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo from 2008′s pillow fight at Nathan Philips Square by Miles Storey/Torontoist. YARD [...]