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Urban Planner: October 12, 2011
In today's Urban Planner: check out one of the last free outdoor concerts of the year; it's opening night for the well-known comedy show My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy; Dani Couture talks about her new novel; and, don't feel bad—it's okay to laugh at someone else during an improv comedy show based on true stories.
An outdoor concert at Yonge-Dundas Square in 2009. Photo by {a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanophoto/3649748472/} ryanophoto{/a} from the {a href=http://www.flickr.com/groups/torontoist/}Torontoist Flickr Pool {/a}.
MUSIC: The past few days would have you believing that warm fall weather is going to last forever. Alas, that’s not the case, and the end of weekly free outdoor events is one sure sign. All summer long, bored office workers and passersby have been able to stop by Yonge-Dundas Square on Wednesdays for Lunchtime Live!, a free outdoor concert series. Today is the second-to-last performance of the year, featuring J.D. Nicholsen—who previously played in the Juno Award–winning band the Leslie Spit Treeo—and The Montgomery Chapter, bringing their take on Hank Williams’ work. Yonge-Dundas Square (10 Dundas Street East), 12:30 p.m., FREE.
COMEDY: Tony Award winner Paul Kreppel is coming to Toronto to star in the well-known hit My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy, starting tonight. The one-man comedy show by Steve Solomon has played in more than a hundred cities around the globe and will be on stage until January 1. Bathurst Street Theatre (736 Bathurst Street West), 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. (times vary by day), $51.50–$56.
LITERATURE: Torontonian Dani Couture will join book blogger and ECW Press editor Jen Knoch onstage at This Is Not a Reading Series to discuss her new novel, Algoma. The well-known poet will share the story behind her obsession with ships and writing. Reviews have called the book “a beautiful story about the nature of expectations and our frequent inability to accept the cards we’re dealt.” Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $5 (FREE with book purchase).
COMEDY: Ever think your day-to-day life could be turned into a comedy routine? That’s the premise behind the show Munchausen: Comedy Based on Real Life Stories. The show features a guest monologist each week who recounts real-life stories, which are then taken by the cast and improvised into hilarious scenes. Comedy Bar (945 Bloor Street West), 10 p.m., FREE.
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