FESTIVAL: For the 33rd year in a row, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is presenting The Rhubarb Festival, Toronto’s longest-running new-work festival. Rhubarb will go on for two weeks, and will feature over 100 artists, all of them aiming to entertain with a mix of theatre, dance, music, performance art, poetry, video, and more. There’s [...]

Just because your on-stage persona shouts, screams, smashes beer bottles, and heads up a band called Fucked Up, doesn’t at all mean that you can’t have the biggest and most generous of hearts. The big, generous heart of Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham was on full display last week as his band put together two nights [...]

RALLY: Halloween day festivities will start a little earlier this year, as more than 200 people have pledged on Facebook to show up at City Hall dressed as “princess warriors.” They’re donning their red bustiers to protest Rob Ford’s conduct in his encounter with This Hour Has 22 Minutes‘ Marg Delahunty (played by Mary Walsh). [...]

ACTIVISM: With the Occupy Wall Street protests inspiring similar class protests in other cities in the U.S. (and gaining celebrity supporters like Keith Olbermann, Jeff Mangum, and Yoko Ono), anti-poverty activists are looking to start similar action on Bay Street this weekend with an Occupy Toronto Market Exchange (doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the [...]

ART: Harbourfront Centre opens its fall visual arts and design season with nine new exhibitions today, which will all be open to the public in a huge reception taking place throughout their spaces. Dozens of the artists behind the exhibitions will be be present and looking to gauge audience reaction to their work; with so [...]

This weekend in Toronto: a consumer-friendly sex convention, a border showdown of wordsmiths, the Tranzac's fund drive continues, Canada's premiere all-boy burlesque team shakes their collective backsides, Santa rolls into town, comedians compete, and more film fests than you can shake a reel at.

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. The extended Bellwoods family continues to multiply and inhabit the city as one of its most recent additions, singer/songwriter Lisa Bozikovic turns her sole [...]

If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter to finish an assignment, you can stop patting yourself on the back, slacker, because a group of fourth-year Ryerson students put all your cut-and-paste efforts to shame with the final project in their Radio and Television Arts degree. Third Floor Sessions is a series of ambitious music and multimedia [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Why is Jonas Bonnetta so damn disarming? His debut full length as Evening Hymns—essentially a fleshed-out version of his real-monikered earlier release—oozes a level [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. What started as a way to compile the prolific creative output of a west-end group of musician friends turned into not only a scene-defining [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Even a marginal indie pop fan should have a soft spot for Ohbijou—three years ago, their darling sounds and community contributions (both musical and [...]