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. Artwork by Tyler Vipond from the “Fucking Animals” show at Whippersnapper. Image courtesy of Whippersnapper and Arthur Seko. ART: Whippersnapper [...]

Halloween has returned as scheduled, and there’s lots on the plate this evening for ghosts, goblins, stormtroopers, and Jedis alike. If our detailed Halloween-ist guide hasn’t sated your appetite for BRAINS…um, events to attend this evening, swing by some of the following gigs—just watch out for razors in apples, strangers in white (or was it [...]

This one is pretty self-explanatory. With the tagline “fuck bands, let’s spell,” Whippersnapper is holding Toronto’s first “Adult” Spelling Bee this Thursday, with all door proceeds (plus half the cash bar) going toward Parkdale Project Read. So if you’re into contributing to a good cause by watching red-faced ego-crushery with a drink in hand, get [...]

Right now, as you’re reading this—assuming you’re reading this before 7 p.m. Friday—Whippersnapper Gallery (587A College Street) is open for the third edition of “Sleep is for Dead People.” The event stretches twenty-fours, from Thursday to Friday evening, during which twenty artists all stay and create work at Whippersnapper, with the public invited in to [...]

Strap on your tux or taffeta this Friday, February 1 and head down to WhipperSnapper Gallery (587A College Street) for Let’s Get Hitched. The youth art collective throws notoriously awesome shindigs: “Whippersnapper openings are essentially hip house parties,” we said in an article about their last exhibit Push It: “Think Pitchfork-approved background music, College kids [...]