WHERE: Toronto Australia New Zealand Club WHEN: 10 a.m. Thursday WHAT: After a rough run of things—short of money and in need of structural upgrades—the future is looking up for the Tranzac, the non-profit cultural centre and general hangout in the Annex. A recent fundraising effort helped raise money for renovations, which, to date, include [...]

Music TRANZAC isn’t holding back for their celebration with no less than 10 acts to push you into 2012. Featuring The Elwins, Maylee Todd, Drumheller, Rouge, and more! TRANZAC Club (292 Brunswick Avenue). 8 p.m., $15. The Sadies, whose NYE performances at the Horseshoe Tavern have now become something of a Toronto tradition, are back [...]

This weekend in Toronto: browse the closets of your favourite television characters, take a stroll through an art-infused Riverdale, check out works in progress from some talented theatre folk, see an Italian operatic classic in a Down Under dive bar, watch the Toronto Newsgirls throw down, join Bruce McDonald for a timely summertime screening, and say farewell to comedy show Let's Get Hot with one final presentation.

On the docket this weekend: a conversation with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, TheatreSports finds a new home, a Holy Week burlesque show, a Tranzac dance party, the return of Toronto kickball, and a Victorian Bohemian cabaret.

This weekend in Toronto: a celebration of records, a show about everything that is green, a sweat-free marathon, The Sadies performing in the Stacks, a musical book-launch event, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! rocks Toronto, a multicultural Easter party, and Diddy is back in action.

Happy New Year! Celebrate in style with a Tranzac fundraiser, an old-fashioned Prohibition party, the Sadies' annual show, a burlesque extravaganza, a polar bear plunge in Ashbridges Bay, New Year's levées with the mayor and lieutenant governor, and a baroque Viennese concert from the Musicians in Ordinary.

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.

In today's Urban Planner, the Tranzac holds an important meeting, Becoming Toronto gives a Fort York tour and talks about the Toronto Purchase claim, comics mix business and pleasure at BeerProv, and The Strumbellas play their Cameron House residency.

Photo-illustration by Dave Meslin, courtesy of the band. There’s a hot new band generating tons of Facebook buzz, and they have yet to play their first show. But the giddy anticipation of their live debut is palpable, in comments on their fan page such as “Yes, I’ve been waiting for this my whole life” and [...]

Photo by Siue Moffat. If you’re into DIY culture, hate prickly thieves, and can appreciate a well-intentioned fundraiser, then this is the post for you. The Toronto Zine Library—known best for providing you with good times and thousands of genre- and decade-spanning zines for your perusal out of the Tranzac—were recently broken into and burgled [...]

A brave participant reads the story “Foodland.” Photo courtesy of Dan Misener. It was as if the crowd were gathering for the show of a famous stand-up comedian. Featured up at the mike, however, were the dramatic realizations, the rampant hormones, the missteps, triumphs, and wounds of childhood preserved fresh in writing. The seventh edition [...]