Category: Events in Toronto

Toronto Paddlefest 2010: An Absolute Beginner’s Experience

Moun­tain Equip­ment Co-0p (MEC) holds some­thing called Pad­dle­fest every year down at Sun­ny­side Beach. It’s a kayak­ing, canoe­ing, pad­dle­board­ing, and dragon boat­ing expe­ri­ence open to any­one for a tri­fling $5 for each 90-minute instruc­tional ses­sion. The folks at MEC are pas­sion­ate about their out­door sports, and it shows in events like this one. Even for […]

Sunday June 13th, 2010 in Events in Toronto | 1 Comment »

Kristen Au @ Aspetta Caffe

Kens­ing­ton Mar­ket is becom­ing a more inter­est­ing place for me these days. It used to be just a grungy, dirty area of town next to Chi­na­town that offered noth­ing for me but fruit stands and small stalls offer­ing cheap cloth­ing I would never buy in a mil­lion years. It still is grungy and a lit­tle dirty […]

Sunday April 4th, 2010 in Events in Toronto | 1 Comment »

First Salsa Night @ Chimera Lounge

I used to dance decently well. It’s been a while since I stopped going reg­u­larly, though, and it’s amaz­ing how rusty I felt on Thurs­day night at Chimera Lounge. Every Thurs­day night now is Salsa Night at Chimera Lounge in Metro Square (right near War­den & Stee­les).  For a pal­try $5 cover, you get a […]

Sunday April 4th, 2010 in Events in Toronto, Other Fun Stuff | Comments Off

Salsa @ Chimera Lounge

Wanna go salsa danc­ing in Markham… rrr… Markham/Scarborough? Why not go to Chimera Lounge at Metro Square?  That’s 3636 Stee­les Ave East, and if you men­tion my name you’ll get absolutely no ben­e­fits because the man­age­ment doesn’t even know me. How­ever, two of my friends dance there, and I have to say the place looks good […]

Saturday March 20th, 2010 in Events in Toronto, Other Fun Stuff | 3 Comments »

Carmen is Don Jose’s #1, but only my #4

Bizet’s Car­men is one of the opera world’s most reknowned and most enjoyed pieces. It is full of famil­iar arias and melodies. It has love and pas­sion, heartache and mur­der. It has high and rous­ing energy at times, and quiet emo­tional moments at oth­ers. Yet, for all this, Car­men is at most #4 in my books. […]

Tuesday February 9th, 2010 in Events in Toronto, Other Fun Stuff | 3 Comments »

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