If you didn't already have an excuse to visit the lower Don Valley, Canadian playright and Fringe favourite Dave Carley will be on hand this Tuesday for a special fundraising performance of After You at Todmorden Mills. Performed by the East Side Players, the resident theatre group at Papermill Theatre, the two-act drama is a reflection on how the aged see things differently than the young. It tells the story of Adele and Jean, two......

Photo by khalijkhazar from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. One of the city's most popular annual events, Doors Open Toronto, returns this weekend for a ninth edition, welcoming the public for free into 150 important, historic, and just plain interesting buildings across the city. It would be virtually impossible for one person to take in all of the participating sites in one weekend, so it's best to pace yourself and visit a cluster of buildings......

Shopping and the Santa Claus Parade are all fine and good, but baking over a hearth and drinking apple cider might just be a better way to celebrate the holidays. Most of the City’s museums are open year-round, but they really shine during the holiday season. Giant Edwardian Christmas tree, anyone? Historical cooking and paper chains? Yes please! There are storytelling evenings, baking and centerpiece workshops, children’s Christmas adventures and Scottish New Year’s Eve celebrations.......

If you stand very quietly in the Don Valley this weekend, somewhere around Todmorden Mills and the Brickworks, you might see them - tiny little women bent at the waist and wearing black. Trowels in hand, these mostly Greek and Slovenian women patiently search the valley floor for the first dandelion shoots of the season. When they spot their prizes they scoop them out in one silent, efficient gesture and are gone, vanished into the......

TOist correspondant Ann, with her sharp ears and magnet for insanity, overheard the following at Todmorden Mills this weekend: Frustrated mother of 3 boys: Boys! Stop that! What if you break all this art? Do you want to pay for it? I can't pay for it! That lady will make you work here until you're 40! And I can't stop her! The same woman later on, trying to get her 4 year old son......