toronto - what to do.

I'll be amazed if any legit place has space open that soon.

A Saturday night would be tough - but maybe try the FunHaus, Studio 99 or the Tequila Lounge on Bathurst. Or the upstairs of the Elmocombo if there's enough space.

xpost - please do

I'm there next Wednesday thru Saturday for a baseball gathering. Good gigs kinda sparse, but I'll be pretty busy. About this Gladstone place, what's the deal with an event like thees on the 6th?

http://www.fakeprom.com/

Fake Prom comes highly recommended from some people, I haven't gone myself.

hmmmmmm, hotels on King Street, please tell me it's the King Edward.

My Thursday night looks fairly free, I might try to get in that raved-about "Wild Duck" production that just opened...

Since I'm, ummmm, over 35, maybe I can go to FakeProm as Uptight Math Teacher.

Is that Cineforum guy still at it? I don't see any current info.

Come to think of it..someone I know recommended Urban Thai up on College street near Grace, but never been there, and can't say for sure.

actually, *i* want them.

After the game Friday, this guy's sposed to play at Horseshoe at midnight:

http://www.fatpossum.com/artists/mayer.html

I've never heard him, but the Andre Williams comparison and the 40-year gap in his recording career sound like a sure thing!

My schedule is in flux, but I'm through fairly early with SABR stuff on Thurs & Sat.

I’d be tempted too, at that price!

not to give away our exact location but we're above non-food shops (with another floor of apts between us as a buffer) which is a first for me - of course, who knows if any of those businesses will be around by the end of the year. thankfully my roomie and I both sleep like rocks.

the other option was the top two floors of a townhouse near christie and dupont which was, I think, 2550 or so plus utilities. it was nice but I didn't like the idea of negotiating noise and temperature with the people below.

We lived in Toronto for most of the 2000s before moving back to the UK. We had an amazing (if venerable and mouse-infested) split level 2.5 bedroom house on Kensington Ave for something ridiculous like $1400 a month. Plus a lovely landlord who lived on the ground floor.

If civilisation doesn't collapse entirely, we're thinking about moving back in 6-7 years time before our kid hits high school age. Hopefully TO will still seem cheap compared to London.

living right in the Market must have been insane! that's an awesome deal, though. another friend of mine lives in a strange shared apartment there for a couple hundred a month and she'll probably stay until the building inevitably gets sold and/or demolished.

basically a certain segment of TO residents, me included, are trying to recreate Montreal living conditions lol

i pay 725 with 3 roommates in a 3br in east van, were trying to take advantage of renters market and find a bigger/nicer place to all move into but so far no luck

Finefinemusic – I'm in East York too! in a semi i bought about 6 years ago.

to the convo about what % of our income goes to housing, before i lost my job it was taking up roughly 30% of our HH income. now - who knows?!

So the crane that fell yesterday was like 5 minutes from my place and is on the route I take to the streetcar every day so 2020 is def trying to kill me

oh jeez! I saw that. terrifying.

what are ilxors' fav stores in toronto? i've been to quite a few so far (another story, she said boom, a good read, seekers, balfour, BMV) and other than BMV (which is comprehensive but not well-curated) i've not been impressed. i would've thought that canada's anglophone metropolis and literary hub would have a huge second-hand market and lots of demand for cool new stuff, but so far nothing's on the same level as the word or s&w welch in montreal or macleod's or pulp fiction or massy in vancouver. hoping there's some obvious great ones i've missed, pls fill me in!

*BOOK stores

I've been out of the city for two-plus years, so I haven't kept up, but things were deteriorating well before COVID. You might be a few decades late. There were book and record stores everywhere in the '80s.

Since a lot of the stores you mention are on Roncesvalles, it shouldn't be too far to get to Dundas St. West of Keele. There used to be a bunch of bookstores there but I haven't been there in a while; also, I would guess they have about the same selection as the Toronto places you mention. I'm not an expert though and am not familiar with the Montreal and Vancouver stores.
There are huge amounts of used books in Value Village-type outlets around town, but certainly not well-curated!

Dundas St. West of Keele

thanks, just took a look on google maps and added a couple promising-looking places to my list