Category: Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

My friend Dorian Logan wrote to me about One: A Night of Art and Music,

which takes place at the Gladstone Hotel on Thursday, June 16th. Here’s

what he said:

A dear friend of mine is putting

together a party. The party will have visual art, music and

happiness!

I have invited you because in my mind you would ‘dig’ this sorta thing.

It’s going to be an energetic night. Here’s the scoop…

Visual art:  tattoo artists, paintings, collage work, and some

furniture designs by our friend Jerry Rabba.

And the music…damn!!!

It’s common knowledge that I love my friend Chad Paulsons’ Afro-beat

Orchestra, Ultra Magnus, but Joe Butler (organizer of this event)

really

turned me on to another guy performing that night. His name is Joel

Parisien, and the dude has soul! Kinda like Sublime meets Stevie

Wonder…it’s very cool!

The other bands are Fireside Band (whom I must admit I know little

about, though Joe said wonderful things) and Sugarkill, who I saw

perform once only, at the Bovine about a year ago. I thought, I

honestly thought:

“in 5 years, I’ll be bragging to someone that I was at this show.” They

have a rawness to them that is so

…crunchy, but

the music just makes ya boogie. I love it.

So, having said all that, please come out to a fun gig, bring positive

energy, and tell some friends!

Once again,

the event is:

One

A night of art and music

Thursday, June 16, 2005

at the Gladstone

Hotel
1214

Queen Street West

$7 advance, $10 at the door

Advance tickets are available at Second Spin CDs (386

Bloor Street West).

Along with Wendy, who’ll be house-hunting with me, j will be up here in Accordion City

from Boston. j’s here to attend a librarian conference, and the

librarians are looking for something to do on Saturday night. How ’bout

we Greater Toronto Area Bloggers (and general folks in the area) show them a good time, get together for some good drinks, good conversation and cream corn wrestling?

Librarian-on-blogger cream corn wrestling! W00T!

Okay, maybe not cream corn wrestling — how ’bout we just gather at:

[via Torontoist] The church sign at the corner of Avenue Road and Dupont:

Furthermore, you have to use UDP…

Also happening this weekend in Accordion City:

From the Doors Open site:

The City of Toronto Culture Division is proud to

present Doors Open Toronto – one weekend, once a year – when over 100

buildings with architectural, historic or cultural significance open

their doors to the public for a city-wide celebration.

Step inside national historic sites, hidden

gems, modern landmarks, places of worship, banking halls, mansions,

museums, theatres, historic transportation hubs, architects’

offices and more. Many of these buildings are not normally

open to the public. No tickets or pre-registration required

– admission is free to all buildings. The official program

guide will be available in the Toronto Star on Thursday, May

19, 2005. Doors Open Toronto invites you to get to know the

city, whether you’ve lived in Toronto all your life or you’re

visiting for the first time. See Toronto like you’ve never

seen it before!

Last weekend, I got to meet one of my favourite webcomic artists, Mr.

M. Zole, artist, writer and consumer of pies of Death to the Extremist (go read it! go read the archives, too!).

I’ll write a little more about this later.

This weekend, I’m hoping to drop by this event…

…The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, to meet a couple more of my favourite artists:

• The Lord God King of Asian-American emo boy angst, Derek Kirk Kim
• R. Stevens of the the funny and pixelated Diesel Sweeties

The festival will be held in tents in Mirvish Village, and it

should be a good one, given the artists who will be attending and the

beautiful spring weather expected this weekend.