The final lineup for the benefit concert for the O'Keefe family has been announced. Organized by Andrew Copland—John O'Keefe's close friend and the Duke of Gloucester's head bartender—the concert aims both to honour John O'Keefe, who was killed walking home from the bar a month and a half ago, and to raise money for an education fund for John's son, Iain. This Sunday, March 2, the Mod Club will host a mix of Toronto......

Any sweetheart worth his or her weight in Godiva's will tell you that all they really want for Valentine's Day is something from the heart, made by hand. Lovely and true. But did said sweetie specify whose heart? Whose hands? Unromantic as it seems, we believe it's perfectly acceptable to outsource your labours of love. Why spend hours wrestling with hot glue and lace when someone else can do it for you—and better? This......

Showdown's hot picks for cold season include cropped leather jackets and cute jumper dresses. Photos courtesy of Showdown Vintage. Why Showdown Vintage isn't like Toronto's 1348 other vintage stores: 1. It's not really a store. Staysail Shedd, Mick Jackson and Andrew Pepall launched Showdown as an eBay retailer in April 2006, using their combined years of vintage-picking expertise to sell the coolest of Toronto's castoffs to customers all over the globe. But with a......

There are lots of good reasons to increase your home's energy efficiency: you'll save money, take pressure off of Ontario's strained electrical grid, and lessen your contribution to the climate crisis, to name a few. But it can be hard to know where to start. Thanks to some new federal government funding that has also been matched by the Province (well, to be fair, the "new" federal program is actually a relaunched version of......

This Sunday, July 8 from 12 to 9 p.m., Mirvish Village will host the first Pedestrian Sunday outside of Kensington Market. The neighbourhood is home to the landmark discount store Honest Ed’s and is a collection of boutiques, studios and restaurants, founded and named for the Mirvish family in recognition of Toronto’s retail show biz entrepreneur Ed Mirvish. Inspired by the success of P.S. Kensington, the project is being taken on by the local Business......

Weekly indie institution Wavelength started in 1999, setting up shop at Ted's Wrecking Yard, then bouncing between venues until landing at its current home, Sneaky Dee's, in 2002. Past performers read like a who's-who of home grown indie music: Great Lake Swimmers, The Bicycles, Cadence Weapon, Julie Doiron, Peaches, Final Fantasy, Feist—and the list goes on. After a Canada Day hiatus, the Sunday night series is back with a stellar July lineup for its live......

This Sunday is the third annual St. James Town Festival, which begins at 10 a.m. outside of the Wellesley Community Centre at the corner of Wellesley and Sherbourne. At least, it's supposed to. But festival organizers claim that an unexpected and hefty bill from the city has left the event in jeopardy. For those of you unfamiliar with St. James Town, it's home to approximately 19,000 people living in a four-block radius, and is Canada's......

When most people think of herbs, they think of cooking. When some people think of herbs, they think of healing. If you have ever had a warm, soothing cup of chamomile tea before bedtime to improve your sleep, you were healing yourself with herbs. Those pesky dandelion plants that are taking over your yard? Guess what—their leaves are packed with vitamin C and iron, and they are bitter, which helps improve digestion. Want an alternative......

Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington market, more commonly known as P.S.Kensington, kicks off its fourth year this Sunday, May 27th. Several streets will be closed to vehicular traffic, allowing pedestrians to celebrate the community, culture, and ecology of this great neighbourhood. This Sunday’s grand opening celebrates Spring, which will include several food demonstrations, piñatas for the kids, and a maypole for the adults. There will also be a community debate about wi-fi and its effects on......

Inside Out is gearing up for its seventeenth annual celebration of Gay and Lesbian video and film, and they need your help to ensure another successful year. This Sunday, the festival will hold the fourth installment of Bar Bazaar, a fundraiser where you can mingle, nosh on homemade baked goods, listen to music from DJ Winnie and bid on an incredible list of items in a silent auction. Notable donations include a five-class pass from......

British fashion magazines have been talking about "new rave" (or nu-rave) since early last year in outlandish glossies like Super Super and Pop. The genre's name is a little misleading, however, as it shares only small parts of the "old rave" aesthetic and none of the beats, which is why the movement has been generally confined to magazines about clothes, not about music. Related to dance-punk and no wave, new rave scenesters don day-glo,......

LOCATION: Centennial Park, Etobicoke (TTC #48 Rathburn Bus from Royal York station) [MAP] TIME: Early registration is 9:30 AM; 2.5 km and 5 km walk begins at 11 AM. Family events throughout the day. It is recognized less for its proper name than it is for its most notorious and dangerous characteristic: insatiable hunger. Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder that can result in poor muscle-tone, learning deficits, a high pain threshold, as well......

Start picnic season off with the fine people at Streets are For People! This Sunday from 4-9pm they'll be taking over a no-longer used gas station at College and Rusholme. Bring your own picnic basket, games, music and dancing shoes. The New Kings and Samba Elegua will be giving you tunes to dance to. Apparently, Portugal is also playing that afternoon so the area is already going to be tons of fun.......

For a square so gray, Dundas Square certainly gets a lot of play. In the past year it's been home to a giant Corn Maize, Zombies dancing to Thriller, a series of one-minute video installations, and, most strangely, a soy milk promotion involving vacationing cows. Beyond that, it has hosted graffiti festivals, Mothers Against Violence rallies, dubious weekly craft fairs, and gaggles of policemen and women fraternizing and bored on the eve of some summer......

Due to the overwhelming popularity of TOist's first foray into boldfaced naming, we'll be taking the backslash b-ing to any event where we see more than two brand-name Torontonians, and reporting our findings back to you, dear readers. This Sunday, over brunch at one of the city's greatest brunch spots (so long as you don't eat the dill patates), Aunties & Uncles, Torontoist beheld a veritable conga line of quiet celebrity. There was crowd-hating, puffy-vest......