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Urban Planner: January 27, 2012

In today's UP: Monologists compete for top TO bragging rights; comedic wits at The Panel Show podcast taping; Wavelength 533 features familiar faces in new bands; Bonjay DJ Songs: a Dance Party; and Design Week continues.

THEATRE: Y’all know how actors usually land jobs, right? They queue with a bunch of other people to get up in front of a panel and do a couple of minutes of material they think best showcases their chops. Some people actually enjoy the often humiliating audition process—and they’re the ones taking part in tonight’s [...]

Weekend Planner: October 29–30, 2011

In this Weekend Planner: find rare works at the Antiquarian Book Fair, a global cabaret festival brings together some of Canada's brightest young artists, check out a play that centres around a woman's sexual identity crisis, Wavelength presents a double whammy with a documentary and gig in one night, make your adorable pet even more adorable with Dogtoberfest, Cask Days returns with plenty of "real ale" to go around, and discuss how to rebuild this city in the sky with Upper Toronto.

BOOK FAIR: Here ye, here ye: no longer must booklovers journey to dusty shops in Europe to unearth the ancient piece of literature their hearts desire. The Toronto International Antiquarian Book Fair is back in town, bringing with it an incredible collection of books, letters, and manuscripts holding values from under $100 to well beyond [...]

ALL CAPS Breezes Onto Island Shores

Everyone has a reference point for what a music festival should be like. In the minds of certain generations, SARSStock was a pitch to Woodstock; for others, NXNE is, due mostly to its name, expected to be like SXSW, which many will assure you is simply not a fair comparison. A concert is noticed for [...]

Wavelength Turns the Knob up to ELEVEN

The Wavelength 250 poster, for its fifth-anniversary show in 2005, is one of many that will be on display in the “Wavelength For Posterity” exhibit, which opens Thursday at the Music Gallery. Image by The Complaint Department. When we meet with the programmers of the Wavelength ELEVEN Festival, they’re putting the final touches on the [...]

Weekend Planner: December 19–20, 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. Photo from a previous Santarchy event by John Curley. Courtesy of Newmindspace. PARTY: [...]

Urban Planner: August 9, 2009

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. 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 by Whitney Kemble, courtesy of Poor Pilgrim. MUSIC: Bruce Peninsula’s Matt Cully created Poor Pilgrim a few years ago [...]

Urban Planner: July 5, 2009

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. 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 courtesy of Harlettes Burlesque Entertainment. DANCE: Burlesque troupe The Harlettes Burlesque Entertainment take it all off for Canada with [...]

Go Wavelength, It’s Your Birthday

Photo of Wavelength’s home sweet home by Rabblefish from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. On any given Sunday, at least since we were all babies and The Simpsons started sucking, the best place in the city to squeeze the last few minutes out of your weekend is at Sneaky Dee’s. While the Dakota Tavern has been [...]

Urban Planner: November 23, 2008

SPORTS: Mud-slinging mayhem, wheel-style, happens at this weekend’s Ontario Provincial Cyclocross Championships. There’s a good informative video about cyclocross here. Thankfully, there is the option of beer and free coffee for bystanders and cowbell handlers. Note that the race course runs right through the beer tent. Fun times! Riverdale Park (east side), 10 a.m.–2 p.m., [...]

Urban Planner: August 31, 2008

MUSIC: You’ve got some options today, reader. You could head over to Sneaky Dee’s tonight for the 428th edition of weekly music series Wavelength. This week’s lineup features Winnipeg funk pop group Flying Fox and the Hunter/Gatherers, followed by improvisational jazz group The WoodChoppers (431 College Street, 10 p.m., PWYC). Alternatively, you could go to [...]

Urban Planner: August 24, 2008

THEATRE: This evening, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is presenting Electro-Alice: Adventures in the Underground. A new techno-opera by Torontonian Noah Henne, Electro-Alice explores what would happen if Alice had taken a bunch of MDMA before proceeding down the rabbit hole. The Facebook event describes it as “an experimental-techno-opera-costume-ball-acid-trip-mind-fucking-spiritual-dance-party for the 21st century.” 2008 Toronto [...]

Urban Planner: August 9, 2008

MUSIC: The third annual ALL CAPS! Outdoor Show is finally upon us. The event is presented by Ryan McLaren’s ALL CAPS! concert series, in association with Wavelength Music Arts Projects and Dufferin Grove Park. This year’s lineup is pretty stacked, and will include performances by The Miles, Huckleberry Friends, Feuermusik, The Youngest, and Hooded Fang. [...]