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This weekend, resist the urge to do the same old bar hop and try a more sophisticated means of indulging your party ADD: the art show hop. Okay, so we just invented that term, but the city does have three rad art happenings going on almost simultaneously this Friday, November 30. And we say, why choose? To start your adventure, knock back a whiskey for warmth and head down to the Harbourfront, where the...

Reminder: this weekend (September 14–16) is the Queen West Art Crawl, or QWAC ("quack"), where the streets and parks of trendy West Queen West become galleries.

Pandas is an odd name for anything, and more than a little disconcerting if you're a fan of large, bamboo-eating quadripeds who don't like to breed.

Submission deadlines are quickly approaching for some of this year’s most exciting weekends of outdoor artfulness and it’s time to get those applications together.

For a lot of people who grew up in the '80s, the cartoon/comic book series Masters of the Universe was a large part of their childhood. It makes a lot of sense, then, that the Masters of the Universe: He-Man She-Ra Art Show happening at Magic Pony is a fundraiser for the Hospital of Sick Kids.

If you were at the Yung Sing Pastry Shop on Baldwin Street yesterday morning, you could have eaten some yummy buns with the Food Jammers. Yay you say. But wait, who are the Food Jammers? They are the hosts of the television show of the same name that take a humorous, thoughtful and often absurd look at eating and preparing food.

Are you a fan of municipal development and urban planning? Do you read Spacing (or at least say you do)? Then you should endeavor to visit A Visual Legacy: The City of Toronto’s Use of Photography, 1856-1997, an exhibition of images from the City of Toronto Archives.

Musically inclined kids start bands, film inclined kids pick up cameras, but what do art inclined kids do. Well they could paint but you'll soon find that you run out of fridge space to hang up all those pretty drawings. If you're like the people behind Whippersnapper gallery you open up your own gallery.

Who needs an excuse to visit a pretty new bookstore? Type, the new bookstore near Trinity Bellwoods which we've mentioned before on this blog is having a very appropriate art show. Nano - Nano is the graduation show from OCAD’s “Nano-publishing: Independent Publications” program taught by Torontoist pal Shannon Gerard.

Torontoist notices that the City's BikeWeek celebration seems to stretch a little longer each year. The 2006 edition officially stretches from May 29 to June 11, almost two weeks, and if you include the fact that many of the events started well before the 29th you could almost rename the event BikeMonth. But we digress.

Though it's a bit late to make it to the opening, there's still plenty of time to check out this exhibit, Jennifer Matotek's "Suck", at the Lower Mailbox Gallery. Housed at 12 Beatrice Street (just North of Dundas), the Lower Mailbox Gallery is certainly Toronto's tiniest art display space.

With the temperature inching just above freezing this weekend Torontoist might just have to bring out our bike. We miss riding it around town, dodging cabbies, avoiding horse crap (if you're Matt B.) and just feeling the cold Toronto air in our freezing faces. Ah, bike-riding in Winter.

Eye contributor Liisa Ladouceur helps run the Royal Sarcophagus Society a neo-gothic collective that makes and sells crafts, organizes readings and more. The group's latest event is Wanderlust,an evening of raunchy road-trip tales, provocative poetry and more tonight at the Gladstone art bar.

The Queen West Art Crawl marks its third birthday this weekend. So much stuff, from open studios to the outdoor art show and sale to "HOUSE CALL: A multi-disciplinary Experiment Where Queen St. W. Invites You Home." Beyond that, Instant Coffee takes over the MOCCA courtyard, and the RBC painting comp hangs indoors.

Special thanks to the folks at the Toronto Public Space Committee, and their eight-month fight against video ads in our subway cars. Yesterday, TTC commissioners voted 4-3 against allowing Viacom Outdoor to proceed with what would have been a new level of intrusiveness to our journeys around the city.

Though the Big Show website features a tent that stirs up frightening memories of our recent experiences under another Big Top, a bit of investigation reveals the show bears no resemblance to the Distillery District's festival of dancing horses and spandex-clad riders. In fact, Big Show is not actually an art show in a tent. It's an art show in a cavernous pool hall (10,000 square feet of art), featuring the works of twenty neat artists from Toronto and beyond. Runs til the end of the month at 1139 College Street.

There's a brilliant new niche blog on the scene, and its contributors are largely comprised of TO-based artists, cartoonists and illustrators. Drawn.ca is a ridiculously frequently updated compendium of illustration, comics and art and design esoterica. From links to how to make faces out of paint daubs to posts about latte art, Drawn's content is visually inspiring and whimsical stuff. We're especially glad that they've alighted us to this costume art show at the DX. Fifty designers, fifty costumes, eight bucks. Pencil it in.

20,000 did last year.

Antony Hare, Toronto Artiste