Grab your dancing shoes; it’s Swing Tuesday at Alleycatz!
Learn to dance West Coast Swing like a pro – an introductory lesson gets started at 8pm, then you’re ready to dance the night away! With music by a live band and lesson by Jason Ng, you’ll be returning every Tuesday to Alleycatz, and for good reason – this restaurant is described as the ideal spot for music lovers and food enthusiasts.
Grab dinner at Alleycatz and your lesson/night of dancing is free – drop by at 8pm, and the cover charge is only $5 per person. Alleycatz is located at 2409 Yonge Street.
Need to pick up your groceries for the week, but can’t bear the thought of navigating through a grocery store with all your winter gear and a sloppy, snowy, wet shopping cart? Sorauren Farmers’ Market is your opportunity to get fresh, local food without the hassles of the grocery store!
This year the Farmers’ Market is operating every week through the winter, so you can plan your meals around seasonal produce, available from farms that surround Toronto. Though the harvest isn’t as bountiful at this time of year, there is still plenty of selection: root vegetables make a warming stew, honey from local beekeepers is perfect for spreading on freshly baked bread, while meat choices range from grass-fed, naturally-raised beef to the more adventurous venison.
The Sorauren Farmers’ Market is hosted on Mondays at Sorauren Park (in the fieldhouse in the colder winter months) from 4 to 7pm.
Get ready for this annual event of roaring engines and fist-pumping energy! Monster Jam returns to the Rogers Centre this weekend, ready to entertain with stunts, jumps, and crushing metal.
The event wraps up today, so don’t miss your opportunity to be part of this yearly spectacle. The Pit Party gets started at 11am, and the Main Event kicks off at 2pm.
The weekend’s line-up includes Grave Digger, driven by Charlie Pauken, Monster Jam Freestyle Champion; Maximum Destruction driven by the eight time world champion Tom Meents; Ironman; Shock Therapy; Excaliber; Robosauraus, a 40 foot tall mechanical dinosaur; and many more!
Tickets range from $28.55 to $61.40 for adults; go to the Rogers Centre event website to learn more about Monster Jam, and to purchase tickets for this smashing event!
Showcasing some of the country’s hottest DJs, DJ Skate Saturday Nights are your chance to strap on your blades and skate to the beat!
Not only will you have the opportunity to get your fill of house, dance, and other genres of music, you’ll get to check out the Harbourfront Centre’s Natrel rink, Toronto’s premier skating locale! With an indoor change room with lockers and washrooms, plenty of food and drinks to keep you warm at Lakeside Eats, and free admission, you can’t go wrong with DJ Skate Saturday Nights!
Starting today and continuing through the weekend, Dance Ontario Dance Weekend 2011 features some of Toronto’s greatest dance talent!
Whether you enjoy classical ballet, jazz, or contemporary dance, or if you prefer something along the lines of b-boy, belly dance, or flamenco, there’s something for you to enjoy at this dance celebration at the Harbourfront Centre. Pay-what-you-can at the door (suggested donation of $10), and be sure to check out this annual event’s details on the Harbourfront Centre’s website!
Whether you’ve lived in Toronto your whole life, or if you’ve just moved to the city, Toronto Urban Adventures is a great way to get to know T.O.! Today’s Multicultural Kensington Market & Chinatown tour starts at the Art Gallery of Ontario at 10am and finishes two hours later at the Dragon City Shopping Centre (at the southwest corner of Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street West).
You’ll have the opportunity to check out two of Toronto’s most beloved neighbourhoods, while stopping at locally-owned eateries, produce markets, and shops. You’ll learn about the history of Kensington Market and Chinatown, and be dropped off in the perfect location for some after-tour shopping!
At $25 per person, this tour has no “minimum enrolment” – if you register, the tour is on! To learn more about Toronto Urban Adventures and the other tours they offer, check out their website.
There’s no two ways about it: there’s nothing quite like a fresh baked cookie, warm out of the oven. But how can you experience that delicious aroma, that enticing taste, and that comforting warmth without getting yourself covered in flour and burning the bottoms of your cookies? Sweet Flour Bake Shop!
This ingenious bakery/cafe has perfected the art of the freshly baked cookie, and all you have to do is select your gourmet dough (original, peanut butter, or oatmeal) and choose two to three mix-ins (22 options include dark and milk chocolate chunks, macadamia nuts, mini pretzels, dried cranberries and blueberries, chocolate mint chips, peanut butter pieces, snickers, pistachios, dried figs, and yes, sprinkles!) The bakers will put your cookie together, pop it in the oven, and presto! Less than five minutes later you have your custom, fresh, warm and gooey cookie, made just as you like it! If you want to stray from tradition, you can also create a cookie sandwich, a muffin top, and even get oatmeal, granola, or yogurt with Sweet Flour’s delicious mix-ins! Sweet Flour Bake Shop is located in Bloor West Village at 2352 Bloor Street West.
To learn more about Sweet Flour Bake Shop and the Bloor West Village neighbourhood, check out Heikki’s interview with Sweet Flour’s owner, Kim!
Hosted at Toronto’s fabulous new TIFF Bell Lightbox and organized by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Tim Burton Exhibition promises to be spectacular.
Follow Burton’s remarkable career via the more than 700 items highlighting the director/author/photographer/illustrator/writer/producer’s development as artist and storyteller. You’ll see everything from some of Burton’s earliest paintings right up to the more recent and sophisticated elements he has created for the likes of Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Planet of the Apes.
The Tim Burton Exhibition is open from Tuesday through Sunday until April 17, 2011. Tickets for the general public are $22.75; double bills of Burton’s films can be enjoyed for $20. To purchase your tickets, or for more information about the film schedule, go to the TIFF website.
Calling all film buffs! The Toronto Film Society presents your opportunity to “go West” with tonight’s films, The Left Handed Gun and Way Out West.
A Billy the Kid film featuring then newcomer, Paul Newman, The Left Handed Gun is a 1958 production with a reputation as “one of the sexiest Westerns ever made.” Way Out West, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, has been dubbed one of the funniest Western films, so you’re in for a night of fantastic Western fun!
Screenings take place at Innis College on the University of Toronto campus, and $15 will get you entrance to this, or any Toronto Film Society double bill; you can also purchase a “Pick 7” membership – $80 for seven double-bills of your choosing. To find out more about the full Film Buffet Double Bill line up, check out the Toronto Film Society’s website.
Santa may have retired the reindeer for the year, but you can still catch the spectacular holiday light show at St. Clair Gardens until January 31st! An energy efficient, LED lighting neighbourhood festival, this Cavalcade of Lights will put some green in your winter and let you hang on to that holiday spirit for another month – after all, January is the month of Epiphany (when Christians celebrate the “three Wise Men” who visited Jesus) and Ukrainian Christmas, and Chinese New Year is not far away either!
St. Clair Gardens Cavalcade of Lights starts at St. Clair Gardens Parkette at 1 Prescott Avenue; you can also take #512 St. Clair Streetcar westbound from St. Clair West Station or from Keele and St. Clair Avenue West to enjoy the show.
