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Urban Planner: May 18, 2012

Happening tonight: A Great and Fabulous Display of Realness, the Toronto Underground Cinema turns two years old; and multiple late-night dance parties.

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 [...]

Protesters Still Blame Michael Bryant for Bike Courier’s Death

A group of about 40 gathered outside the ROM on Thursday to protest an appearance by the former politician.

A silent group gathered on Thursday night outside the ROM. They were there to mourn the loss of bike courier Darcy Allan Sheppard and to protest the former provincial politician, Michael Bryant, who was making a public appearance inside. Sheppard was killed three years ago, in an incident involving Bryant, not far from the ROM, [...]

Secrets of the Maya

A new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum features new discoveries from Mayan ruins and addresses the legends surrounding 2012.

Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park) November 19, 2011–April 9, 2012 $25 adults, $22.50 students and seniors As we approached the seating area for a press conference about the Royal Ontario Museum’s next major exhibit yesterday, we were greeted by a man in blue body paint and a tall [...]

Edward Burtynsky’s Oil Exhibition Shines

Oil, the new exhibition opening Saturday April 9 at the Royal Ontario Museum, brings together over 50 pieces by celebrated local photographer Edward Burtynsky, and examines our love-hate relationship with the sticky substance. Burtynsky’s taken photographs of oil as it is found around the world—reinforcing its global impact—ranging from Canada’s tar sands to NASCAR rallies [...]

ROM Secrets Revealed

We got a sneak peek at the Royal Ontario Museum’s treasure trove of undisplayed artefacts this week, ahead of a big reveal on a new TV show, Museum Secrets. If you think the exterior of the infamous Crystal is hard on the eyes, try looking past all the jagged edges to what’s inside the museum—deep [...]

Urban Planner: January 1, 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. Fearless souls brave the icy waters of Lake Ontario at the annual New [...]

Urban Planner: December 4, 2009

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. Photograph by Jonathan Taggart, one of the young artists showcased in the first [...]