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Urban Planner: April 16, 2012

In today's Urban Planner: Close Encounters and TINARS envision the next 500 years, singer/songwriter Grant Tilley's record release at Revival, and comics fete fellow funnyman Boyd Banks at his birthday set.

LAUNCH: The Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art is launching a magazine, Close Encounters, that imagines how indigenous culture will change over the next 500 years. Tonight’s Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, co-presented with This Is Not a Reading Series and the Ryerson Image Centre, will fete the mag with storytelling, art, music, and more. [...]

Urban Planner: June 20, 2011

In today's Urban Planner: the Big Save needs your precious bodily fluid; an erotic slide show and frank chat; citizen concerns about policing in Toronto; and The Soaps ties up some loose ends.

Urban Planner: April 11, 2011

In today's Urban Planner, authors deal cards and books at a blackjack tournament/book launch, Red One Collective previews the Canadian premiere of Diving Normal, and Geoff Hendry and Associates crack wise at the Supermarket.

Weekend Planner: March 12–13, 2011

This weekend in Toronto: 1833 comes alive at Campbell House, the Mercer Union spikes your tea, a pajama party with clowns, a syrup shindig in the city, the launch of a new sci-fi graphic novel, and a new sex-positive film festival.

Urban Planner: October 4, 2010

In today's Urban Planner: Mayor Miller and his book about TO, the Tranzac's public meeting on how it plans to save itself, adults read their childhood writing, up-and-coming comics vie for the Tim Sims Encouragement award, and Cancer Can't Dance Like This.

Urban Planner: March 2, 2009

Evan Munday prepares the Stripmalling display in Pages’ windows yesterday. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist. WORDS: This is Not a Reading Series presents a book launch tonight at the Gladstone Hotel. Stripmalling, by author Jon Paul Fiorentino and illustrator Evan Munday, tells the story of one young man’s embarrassing and hilarious journey to literary awareness. The [...]

Urban Planner: February 23, 2009

Photo courtesy of Columbia Artists Management Inc. (CAMI). STAGE: Internationally acclaimed acrobatic troupe the National Acrobats of China make their Massey Hall debut tonight. Founded in 1956, the troupe has won numerous acrobatic competitions over the years and thrilled audiences the world over. Their stage show combines martial arts, illusion, and (duh) acrobatics, set to [...]

The Literati: Get Out Of Town, Join The Circus, And TINARS For Tots

Every Tuesday afternoon, Torontoist rounds up the city’s literary news, including book deals, events, local sales, author happenings, and insider information from the book industry. The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival—the Toronto literary community’s annual out-of-town oasis—is celebrating its twentieth birthday this summer. This year’s festival, a mere forty-five minutes west of Toronto, starts this Friday [...]

The Literati: The End Of I.V., Raising A Glass To Glassman, And Tracking Urban Prey

Every Tuesday afternoon, Torontoist rounds up the city’s literary news, including book deals, events, local sales, author happenings, and insider information from the book industry. The big news this week is that the literary community’s beloved I.V. Lounge Reading Series is no more. Last Saturday series curator and host Alex Boyd announced on his blog [...]

Have You Written Anything I Might Have Read?

Oh, the seemingly endless toil and frustration of being an underpublished and underappreciated writer. There’s the mailbox full of polite, predictable rejections and the depressing rite of passage otherwise known as “open mic night.” When you finally emerge from it all, it’s certainly time to rejoice. Thankfully Pages Books & Magazines’ This Is Not A [...]