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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 to synthetic food dyes? Many herbs have powerful pigments that can be used to colour food and fabrics naturally. Mother Nature’s bounty is inspiring, if you take the time to stop to smell the herbs.

Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington market, more commonly known as P.S.Kensington, kicks off its fourth year this Sunday, May 27th.

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.

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, glitter paint, glowsticks and visors, among other old rave accessories, but are noticeably lacking in the trouser width department.

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.

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 gunfights. It's even home to one of the City's more amusing panhandlers - she who justs wants money to buy a pair of 'comfy socks.' It 'tries to be many things to many people,' even though 'you're not allowed to stand on any of the tree planters, and you actually need a city-issued permit before you can ride your bike across it." Indeed, a million trillion things have taken place in our faulty square. But, has it ever hosted a pillowfight? This Sunday's just might be a first.

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 loving Russell Smith, as well as MM VJ Devon Soltendieck, and that guy from the Labatt's commercial - the 'when I want a water I'll ask for water' guy. And as if that wasn't enough, we ran into our friend, and her dog, Penga. What's up with this town?