Results tagged “cherrybeach”

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or--in rare cases--proudly display our city.

If you have ever been to Cherry Beach on a Sunday, you are no doubt familiar with the chill beats and mellow atmosphere of a Promise event. This weekend, Promise teams up with alienInFlux for their annual Harvest Festival. The festival, which begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday near Huntsville, ON, is billed as an "Autumn equinox arts and music Celebration." It is perhaps more accurately described as a bookend to a summer of Toronto-area dance music, signaling a bountiful end, for the most part, to our outdoor partying before another long winter.

On Sunday night, the mostly Torontonian electropop extravaganza Dragonette took to the stage at the Social. Martina Sorbara, the group's lead singer, stood up front in green stilettos and grabbed her glowstick necklace, proclaiming, "I feel so New Wave!" The group then proceeded to throb and pound out song after sweet, sensuous song from the tiny stage, while densely-packed fans, resigning themselves to the lack of horizontal dancing space, jumped straight up and down and pumped their fists in the air.

In our last report on Drum Circle, Toronto's weekly celebration of drum and dance, one commenter lamented, "Its going to be a looooong [sic] winter without it...:(" Fear not, faithful reader, for the beat goes on.

For those who have enjoyed a Sunday at Cherry Beach, dancing to chill beats or relaxing in the shade of the grove, the question among your friends all week has simply been, "Skating?" Tonight from 8 - 11 PM, Promise, known to many as simply "David and Irving", will be hosting this week's installation of DJ Skating Nights at the Harbourfront Centre. Skate to an eclectic mix of reggae, disco, house and techno by your selectors Violet, Benjamin Boles and Jonny White.

¡Prospero año! Perhaps the only party "weekend" that Torontonians take more seriously than Halloween weekend, New Year's starts days before the calendar ends and terminates in a hangover, often in strange settings. We have rounded up what this Torontoist considers the best parties at which to get your groove on and completely forget the year 2006. When the glitter settles, the real question will be, "Where's the afterparty?"

Toronto's beloved beaches officially opened yesterday for the summer. The opening of the beaches comes as four of our beaches were internationally recognized for fantastic water quality by Environmental Defence: Cherry Beach, Hanlan’s Point Beach, Ward’s Island Beach and Woodbine Beach.

In hopes of turning this weather a little warmer, Torontoist wants to suggest some saucy summer venues which are good for going on dates. Because after all, a summer romance needs to be unique, and it can't if you're carousing the same locals you did all winter.

Perhaps it's a bid to curry pre-election favour on the part of the Libs (like that $100 mil given to the Peg's Ayn Randish Human Rights museum a week ago), but the Federal gov is finally coughing up some needed funds for the city's condo strip that calls itself a waterfront. The combined twenty mil will mean a bit of revitalization for Cherry Beach, Leslie Street and Unwin Ave beautification projects. It will also mean that Puffin Premier Paul's latest funds have been delivered before his election promise of $125 million last year have. Oh the vagaries of bureaucracy.