The Over The Top Festival starts today—the real one, not the CFL event. The next four evenings will find bands, films and dance performances filling various downtown venues. Having originated in 2002 as the "Toronto Indie Pop Festival," past festivals have line-ups have included Grizzly Bear and Amy Milan. The 2007 line-up continues in this vein, most notably bringing singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, subject of the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. The full schedule......

This is it! The chance you've been dreaming about since middle school has finally come true: an open casting call for Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage. No joke. Not a professional? Not a problem. If you're in your late teens to mid 30s, you think you can dance, and your singing doesn't sound like ass, report to O.I.P. Dance Studio at 9 am sharp on Tuesday January 16 (women) or Wednesday......

Dynamic dancer and choregrapher Marie Chouinard is presenting her company's latest work for one night only (November 3rd) at the Hummingbird Center. bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS was created this past summer at the Venice Biennale's International Festival of Contemporary Dance. We have a pair of tickets that we will give to the first person who e-mails us with the answer to this skill-testing question: Where is the Compagnie Marie Chouinard based? We're sorry, but the contest is......