Photo from Deko-ze. The holidays are normally a time for rest but nobody told that to Deko-ze. The man dubbed Canada's hardest working DJ has a doozy of a week. On top of the Christmas Bash he is throwing at Footwork on Friday, Deko-ze will be spinning a six hour extended set at CZ on Sunday for Mass and is a part of CZ's Christmas Come Get Your Fcukin Beats party. He's also at......

It sounds pretty simple. There's one rule, right? Don't get so wasted that you a) spill the beans to your boss about i) the fact that you hate him/her or ii) the fact that someone is quitting, b) touch someone inappropriately, or c) throw up in your boss' lap. And yet come holiday season, we're bombarded by so much inane advice on how to not screw up at your office party that it's enough to......

Necessary Angel has just announced a totally cool event planned to take place on March 3, 2008. Three playwrights will be given the opening lines for a new play. Each playwright will have 4 hours in which to write said play, after which three different teams will have 5 hours to rehearse the works. When those 5 hours are up, the plays have to be performed at Necessary Angel's annual gala at the Capitol......

Photos by Vanessa Toye. Only three more people are ahead and the potent curry aromas are teasing everyone to keep waiting it out. The entire event has been spent standing in this line, two hours for a dosa, to try one of the foods at the Toronto Street Treats Event. Thankfully, satellite foodies circled around to other lines and snapped up a variety of dishes for Torontoist to eat that were quickly disappearing into......

After some talk in April, we were worried that the movement on street food had fizzled out. Lo and behold, Councillor Filion is rounding up his troops of chefs for the promised Toronto Street Treats Event on Friday at Nathan Phillips Square from 12 to 2 p.m. with little to disappoint. A full list of the playful and potential street food that will be served was released along with the official word that August......

It's hard to imagine a better of way of getting people to want information than by trying to keep it from them. That's why the federal government probably shot itself in the foot last month when, according to the CanWest News Service, Conservative MPs "abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S." Apparently (and this is still in the words of the news report), the Conservative......

For Toronto's Kids On TV, it's been a long road to get their debut album completed, one that has lasted the better part of three years. For those waiting to hear Mixing Business With Pleasure, released last week by the Blocks Recording Club, there has been the lingering question of how the music would translate from the live show onto tape. For a band that is so infamous for its high-energy, explicit performances, how would......

We at Torontoist love our pets, and yours too, and we’d be happy if they didn’t do much else but shower us with undeserved admiration and give us a little snuggle when we get home after a hard day of Torontoisting. So you’ve got to know that we’re impressed when we come across pets that not only take care of the basics, but actually save lives to boot. The 39th annual Purina Animal Hall of......

The answer to that groan-inducing question is the Latvian House (491 College St.) where the Downtown Urban Design Event (DUDE) show starts tonight at 6pm and runs through the weekend. Exhibitors include: socially responsible fashions from Passenger Pigeon (all their clothing is made with organically grown and ethically produced materials), our friends from the Monster Factory, pottery, jewelry, pins and more. For all of you who missed the one-of-a-kind show or found that event......

Some of our favourite people ever are getting together to throw a mayoral party and we're all invited. Toronto's champion, David Miller, will spar with challenger Jane Pitfield in the ring at Revival, 783 College Street at 8 PM (barring any unforeseen interruption, of course!) Each mayoral hopeful "will outline their visions for Toronto's public spaces" and face the Spacing Inquisition from a panel of journalists. Followed by a set from HOT ONE, "a......

Gather the girls up and nevermind the boys, they'll be glued to their seats in pubs across the city watching the footie finals. And as much as we admire the players, um, "athleticism", maybe this weekend should be spent primping, with a peppering of pampering? Downtown Diva is putting on an afternoon of spoils with the Glow Summer Beauty Event- shopping, beauty demos, designer treats and did I mention the martinis? Yes, there will be......

Today is the first day that you can go see Theatre @ York's performance of Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage. Findley's novel, a frightening retelling of the Noah's Ark story (involving ragtime piano, a devoted cat, and a unicorn, if I recall correctly), has been adapted for the stage and runs until March 25th at York University's Burton Auditorium. Times and other information available here.......

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Guy Maddin, the Peg's master moviemaker, and the genius who came up with glass legs full of beer will be live from excrutiatingly far York University, on Thursday at 7 pm, as part of the Independents, a monthly film series on Independent Canadian film. U of T silent cinema scholar Charlie Keil will host, and Maddin will screen a handful of short films, like Sissy Boy Slap Party (2004) and Cowards Bend the Knee.......