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Urban Planner: June 21, 2010
Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to [email protected].
PHOTOGRAPHY: NXNE may be over, but if you missed seeing Iggy Pop and other legends of punk, here’s another chance: an exhibit of photos taken by Toronto musician and artist Vince Carlucci, showing at Oz Studios. “Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” documents nine years of shows (1973–1982) in Toronto, including Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Teenage Head, The Ramones, Debbie Harry, and others. Photographer and studio owner Joe Fuda has spent months going through Carlucci’s previously unseen photographic treasure trove to put together the retrospective. Oz Studios (134 Ossington Avenue), 11 a.m.–7 p.m., FREE.
THEATRE: With the G20 right around the corner, it’s a perfect time for The Wrecking Ball, a recurring evening of politically motivated theatre. The full title of this edition: Wrecking Ball 10: Gee? 20!: Recovery and New Beginnings (and a Sense of Manufactured Wellbeing and Calm Based on the Desperate Hope that the Worst of the Economic Shitstorm that Nobody Saw Coming is Over Please Please). New playlets by Sky Gilbert, Marjorie Chan, Beatriz Pizano, and Melody Johnson will debut; Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Lion and The Lamb will also be performed. The box office opens at 7 p.m. and these shows always sell out—go early. The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West), 8 p.m., PWYC.
MUSIC: The Fiery Furnaces are back in town, touring their release I’m Going Away—both of them. The album was released twice in 2009, with siblings Matt and Eleanor Freidberger covering each other’s material, and releasing two very different recordings of the same songs. The Phonemes open. Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen Street West), doors at 8 p.m. $18.50 ($20 at the door).
MUSIC: Local band The Bill Bills, whose members include Life of a Craphead‘s Jon McCurley, plan to play a quick and dirty set in the basement of a parking garage tonight at 11:18 p.m. (“Bill” backwards, right?). Their last set, for Against Life, folded after a generator crashed; here’s hoping they manage to pull this off, flash mob–style. Dundas Parking Garage (61-69 Centre Avenue), 11:18 p.m. sharp, FREE.