This evening, Toronto Culture and Fort York are unveiling a permanent public art installation under the Gardiner Expressway (off Fort York Boulevard, between Bathurst and Fleet Streets). In WATERTABLE, Toronto artists Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak use video and lights to create the effect of rippling water on the underside of the highway—a reminder that the Gardiner runs along what used to the original shoreline of Lake Ontario. Ever wonder why the the Toronto......

Photo by ilkrender. The Toronto Reference Library will be celebrating the big 30 this Friday, and you're invited to its open house birthday party. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. with Breakfast Television host Kevin Frankish, Mayor David Miller, and architects Raymond and Ajon Moriyama, the event includes poetry readings, music, artist demonstrations, library tours, workshops, etc. The library will also launch Your Stories, a collection of personal narratives about the library's role in the lives......

The grand dame of Toronto's performing arts venues, the Royal Alexandra Theatre, celebrates its 100th birthday tomorrow. To mark the event, the Mirvishes have organized a free open house from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., during which you can go on a self-guided backstage tour, eat free grub at the BBQ in front of the theatre (weather permitting), or catch a tribute performance from the original members of the 1969 Canadian cast of Hair.......

Now that the keys to the building have officially changed hands, Roncesvalles is a step closer to getting its old buddy back. While the theatre is still technically closed for business (with mumblings of a September opening!), the not-for-profit Revue Film Society will be holding a big open house this Saturday. This marks the first time the theatre will be open to the public since its closure last June. Those attending the jam will......

Torontoist just bought a new bike. It's blue and shiny and for some reason hasn't been stolen yet. In celebration of this fact, here are three bike-related items we thought you'd be interested in. First, bike racks on buses: should they stay or should they go? Come on and let us know! (Ahem.) Discussion for action is taking place at the TTC Commissioners meeting this afternoon at City Hall. The question (item 17 on......

Everybody’s talking about the weather—now’s your chance to get out and do something about it. Mayor David Miller is inviting everyone in the city to attend the Climate Change Action Forum this Sunday, April 29 at Exhibition Place. The Forum is a venue to discuss and shape Toronto’s plan for tackling the related menaces of air pollution and global warming. Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about greenhouse gases and climate change,......

Listen up doodlers, animaniacs, and true believers. This month, Max the Mutt Animation School wants to give you super powers! Well, super-artistic powers, anyway. From Saturday, March 10 to Sunday, March 18, Max the Mutt will be open to the public. If you’ve been considering animation as a career, or if you’re just curious about how all those neat-o pictures come to life, this is your chance to get a behind-the-scenes look at the animation......

Then you'll love Lake Ontario Park! At least, that would seem to be a reasonable assumption. However, if you're looking for more reassurance (recommended), the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation (or, NAMBLA) is hosting a public forum on their plans for "Lake Ontario Park," which is to be "one of Toronto's great new park spaces and a defining destination for the city," running from the Portlands (Cherry St. south of the Distillery District) in the west......

...They want you. They want you as a new recruit! Anyone who's seen Pride parade in the last ten years have seen the Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps, Toronto's gay and lesbian colour guard. Since 1994, they've wowed crowds from Montreal to St Catherines with their camp and flashy routines at straight and gay functions alike (Montreal/Toronto Pride, Oshawa Santa Clause parade, Welland Rose parade). This Torontoist remembers the roar of the mob when the group......

Why both of course. Torontoist was at the Coach House open house last night and didn't see this little courtship ritual happening but we wish we did. The young lady in question even posted this risque little comment. Some things: 1. I know of a typesetting job, perhaps you are interested? 2. Or maybe we can get together and talk about the creative uses of white space? Oh, young type lovers I hope you two......

Gothamist posts on the capture of a NYC perv thanks to Little Brother and a camera phone. They also scour the city for vodka martinis and Shamrock shakes and spot the friend from the Wonder Years at a city law firm. New York police think that Littlejohn is their man. Houstonist is no stranger to megachurches or stripmalls or mega-strip-churchmalls. The children of Houston are under assault by unknown forces as this week a playground......

Every December for as long as Torontoist can remember the holidays have been marked by a certain Friday morning when CBC's Metro Morning (our must-listen morning radio since childhood) just doesn't quite sound the same. The strange echo and laughter of a live audience can only mean one thing: we've missed the CBC's holiday open house yet again. Every year we swear that we'll haul our cookies down to Front Street to meet the voices......

So you're not TIFFing towards ecstasy, making like conspicuously consuming celebs on Bloor's Mink Mile who spend small fortunes in order to drown out the loneliness of the red carpet (boo hoo). The weekend's stuffed with fashiony goodness that's kinder to the civilian pocketbook, and much more satisfying. Today: Susan Harris Design, queen of urbane recycled clothing, is having an open house at her studio today, and inviting other designer to present their wares: jewellery......

Coach House, publisher of books we like is turning 40. And instead of getting a comb over, taking up an extreme sport and putting a downpayment on a sports car the book fiends at Coach House are throwing an open house tonight at their place.......

It's too bad that Torontoist had to inaugurate our photo essay series in a building that isn't yet electrified, but somehow the fuzzy pixel recreations of the dimly lit Dominion Club seem to parallel the mood of the place. The members club held an open house this weekend, replete with sweatshirt wearing club staffers, free Al Van Houtte coffee and six million dollar condo advertisements. It was a strange mix, to be sure, but amiable......