Spiral Beach have found themselves in a spot of trouble. As detailed a week and a half ago in both NOW and Eye, the band got hit with a $1470 bill [PDF] from EcoMedia Direct for putting up eight posters for last month's Opera House show on eight of the company's "SilverBox and Heritage Box Recycling Bins." Again, that's $1470 for eight small posters, like the one above made by Spiral Beach singer/keyboardist Maddy......

Find out what happens when musicians trade guitars for paint brushes this Friday, April 4 at the opening of Whippersnapper Gallery's latest exhibition Colour is the Keyboard. From 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. that night, visitors are invited to view artworks by Buck 65, Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene), Will Zimmerman (Shout Out Out Out Out), Dallas Wehrle (Constantines), and over a dozen other rockstars in Whippersnapper's second floor studio (587A College Street). We're......

Strap on your tux or taffeta this Friday, February 1 and head down to WhipperSnapper Gallery (587A College Street) for Let's Get Hitched. The youth art collective throws notoriously awesome shindigs: "Whippersnapper openings are essentially hip house parties," we said in an article about their last exhibit Push It: "Think Pitchfork-approved background music, College kids in tortoise-shell glasses, and red wine in plastic cups." All the cool kids are going, so why aren't you?......

With a title like Push It, could Whippersnapper Gallery's January group show be anything but real good? The exhibit runs from January 10–26 and features 25 emerging artists, all Canadian and all chosen by the Whippersnapper team from an open call for submissions. Works range from Heli Prajapati's tranquil everyday-object photography to primitively emotional mixed media on canvas by Hayden Menzies, plus painting, sculpture, video and more. Whippersnapper won't take commission from works sold during......

The Too-Explicit Injustice of Kind Population! is: a) a popular Engrish t-shirt slogan in Tokyo b) a Sufjan Stevens hidden track c) the title of this month's photo blog show at the Whippersnapper Gallery If you guessed "c," many hand claps and cheers! You've just won yourself admission* to the opening reception of this must-see exhibition featuring Toronto's top photo bloggers: Sam Javanrouh, Chris Altorf and Jessica Hayes, Adam Hool, and Rannie Turingan. The......

Torontoist finished Book 7 last night, and we're feeling a little down about the Harry Potter saga being over. Sure, everything turned out alright (and Mrs. Weasley said the B-word!) but we can't help feeling like the wizarding world no longer needs our support. Under normal circumstances, we would be binge eating and watching Prisoner of Azkaban on repeat. Thankfully, Toronto will be flooded with Harry Potter fans this weekend, keeping the wizarding spirit......

Today is the first day of Prophecy 2007—the annual Harry Potter-centric academic conference where adult fans of the series present papers on The Boy Who Lived. With Book 7's release not two weeks ago, we imagine there was a lot of frantic editing and crumpled paper over the last few days. But this ain't no Yule Ball. Children under 14 are not permitted to attend, and teenagers must be accompanied by a chaperone over......

Remember Makeout!? You can see what happened with the roomful of 200 people smooching at the Ryerson University Film Festival. This weekend RUFF will showcase films by about 40 graduating Image Arts students from May 10-12 at Royal Cinema. Eat popcorn to Billy Bites People, in which, well, Billy bites people, claymation in Happy Endings Sanatorium, and Jesus’ second coming in Zombie Jesus!. A man steals sounds from existence and catalogues them in Even With......

While our experience Over The Top experience from Thursday was full of guitar driven pop-rock, Friday night was all about pianos, keyboards and synthesizers. We're still all smiles from it, it was that freakin' good. Here's why. It's hard to find a more energetic, loveable duo than Matt & Kim, who started the night at the Mod Club. With Matt on keys/synth and Kim on drums, the Brooklyn pair smiled and headbanged their way......

Even though the Toronto Indie Pop Festival became the Over The Top Festival a long time ago, Thursday night's show at the Whippersnapper Gallery would have fit in easily with the former name. With three bands on the bill, it was a short blast of sweet songs that got the fest off to a good start. The first act on the bill was local four-piece Great Bloomers who quickly impressed the small crowd with a......

As the weeks draw closer to the holidays, we're seeing less and less shows listed -- which really sucks, because one can only take so much Christmas music...and we've already heard enough of it to drive us insane. Yeah, yeah, bah humbug. That said, it's quite possible we'll be checking out Twisted Sister's 'A Twisted Christmas' tomorrow. The vision of Dee Snider in full makeup and crazy hair, possibly wearing a Santa suit and......

What's the perfect way to combat the inevitable disappointment of your New Year's Eve plans? How about celebrating tomorrow night, instead of December 31st? It's another wacky event from our friends at Whippersnapper Gallery (587A College): a New Year's masquerade in November. Attendees are required to sport formal attire and, of course, a mask. Your $12 ticket (available at Soundscapes) gets you admission to the event, which includes music ranging from DJs to a......

Istoica, an awesome photoblogging duo, will be having their first exhibit of their work, Fragments of Everyday, at the Whippersnapper Gallery (587A College St). The opening party is tonight (September 15th, 2006) starting at 7pm and the work will be up until September 26th, 2006. This is not to be missed.......