This Friday's Steam Whistle Unsigned is already the fourth in a series of independent music showcases at the Roundhouse, but it's the first we're really excited about. Really excited. Check out this lineup: The Carps are the best thing to come out of Scarborough since... er... hmm. Right. Anyway, the punk-soul duo recently opened for MIA at the Kool Haus, and if they're good enough for Maya, they're good enough for you. Opopo sound like......

Before all the fuss over Halo 3 there was the video game greatness of Pong. And before that, there was good ol' fashioned ping pong. Since 2000, The Dedicated Association of Ping Pong Players has been keeping the table tennis dream alive with bi-annual tournaments, the next of which is taking place on Saturday. Up to 500 people are expected to attend the event at the Steam Whistle Brewery ,which will feature drinking and......

Last night at City Hall, Councillor Adam Vaughan conceded defeat in the fight to keep the John Street Roundhouse from becoming a big box retail outlet. He withdrew his motion [PDF] calling for a temporary freeze on the redevelopment of the Roundhouse into a Leon's outlet. The news derails a movement against the proposed furniture store that had been gathering steam recently. First, a Friends of the Roundhouse group, which included former Mayor David......

Photo of CP-7069 from Railroadfan.com On the weekend when we celebrate our nation's history, we seem on the verge of destroying some of it. Sitting in its home at the CPR John Street Roundhouse, a 1948 CP Rail locomotive engine known as the Hauling Fool is about to be scrapped to make way for a Leon's furniture store, and there is little its owners can do about it. Located just outside Bay 14 at......

Comedians Dawn Whitwell and Elvira Kurt wanted to start a comedy movement. So they created Girls School, an all-woman comedy tour featuring some of Canada's most hilarious performers. The reason they chose the name and the all-lady lineup relates to research showing that students in all-girl schools perform better academically than those in co-ed schools. It follows that female comics would feel freer on stage with some sisters. The movement is gynocentric, but the comedy......

Fresh off their massive St. Patrick's Day celebration, Steam Whistle is throwing another bash tonight, but this time in support of a much nobler cause than getting smashed and pretending you're Irish for a day. Tonight the doors to the Roundhouse (255 Bremner Boulevard) open at 8 p.m. for sets by Woodhands, Modern Boys Modern Girls and These Electric Lives in the first installment of Steam Whistle's Unsigned music series. It's $5 at the......

If you’re looking for a charitable alternative to your customary Groundhog Day festivities this Friday, the Steam Whistle Brewing Company will be home to Weaselpalooza, a party for the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund. Benefiting the recipients of music therapy (including kids with physical and developmental challenges, the aged, and those in hospice), the event will feature live karaoke with members of White Cowbell Oklahoma, DJs, a silent auction, and beer. Lots of beer. If......

Who's going to come out on top of the strangest Giller Prize shortlist in years? While the smart money is on Rawi Hage's DeNiro's Game, which is also nominated for the Governor General's Award, writers from the Globe raised a convincing argument for Gaetan Soucy's the Immaculate Conception. Sadly we won't get to see Canada's literati ogle Justin Trudeau but that doesn't mean that you can't celebrate Canada's biggest literary prize, go to a great......

Sports fans, clear your calendars and get ready to deck your car out with flags. The World Series is over and the Stanley Cup still months away, but one of the world’s great sporting competitions is coming to town. That’s right, on Saturday, November 11, Toronto will be hosting the 2006 Rock, Paper, Scissors World Championship. The sport that’s settled a thousand disputes between drunks, children, and drunk children will see it’s best and......

TOists will be shaking their booty at Do Something With A Blundstone, the Aussie-themed fundraising party tonight. It's a benefit for SKETCH, the lofty downtown arts studio that offers street-involved and homeless youth drop-in programs that integrate job and life skills development through the visual arts. At the home of the good pilsner folks Steam Whistle Brewing from 7pm to 2am tonight, ten bucks at the door gets you into the party (plenty of food......

Beer in the summer! From douchewhistles to Steam Whistles, Torontoist always has you covered. With respect to the latter, the Steam Whistle brewery is celebrating five years in the biz with a few worthy promotions. Taking a break from our winter selections, Steam Whistle could become the beverage of our summer with their new sustainable beer cup. The bio-plastic cup (pictured) contains no petroleum, is made from 100 per cent renewable resources and takes......

Au Québec, le syndicat des employés de la société des alcools (SAQ), le pendant des LCBO en Ontario, est en grève. Que font les Québécois face à cette situation ? Certains se tournent vers l’Ontario et se dirigent vers Ottawa ou Hukesbury qui ont vus leurs ventes d’alcool augmenter considérablement lors des deux dernières semaines de grève. Mais pourquoi ne pas aussi acheter de la bière canadienne ? Toronto est d’ailleurs bien connue pour......

Prefix Photo is beautiful. And it's ten issues old. And there's a party. In conjunction with The Fakhouri File. A show curated by Philip Monk. Ten issues. It's something to be proud of. In this day. And age. Tomorrow. 401 Richmond. 7-10pm. With beer provided by Steamwhistle. "Come view work by contemporary Canadian photographers while you enjoy an ice cold Steam Whistle Pilsner," their website entreats us. Okay. We will.......