toronto - what to 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.

Here's my question.

Let's say you had about four hours in Toronto, from about half past eleven to about half past three over a Friday lunchtime. You can't go too far from the place where Queen West becomes Queen East. You don't mind getting taxis or public transport, but don't want to spend too much of the time travelling, because you're about to be sitting on an aeroplane for several hours.

Let's say you'd never been to Toronto before and you know nothing about the place. And that you hope your plan will include lunch, somewhere along the line.

What would you do?

Err, bump for the Torontonian lunchtime.

I should be clearer: the Friday lunchtime in question is next Friday lunchtime, so recommendations will continue to be welcome.

If anyone fancies an pint with a largely-former ILx type on Thursday evening (that is to say Tursday 16th), say so.

i'm game. any other toronto types about? haven't seen you people in ages.

what we need to focus on here is:

ooh, electroclash. sounds like fun. maybe ill go. thanks
-- phil, Friday, January 18, 2002 8:00 PM (5 years ago)

ah, 2002.

:(

I don't think i'd reccomend electroclash for a thursday afternoon.

If you're at queen where west meets east - you're probably not in the nicest spot toronto has to offer. hop on the street car and go west!
there's some good patio space between john and spadina and lots too look at! there's a few landmarks around there - you can get a good view of the cn tower & skydome and recoil in horror at the ocad building.

i don't work too far from there but i go on vacation the next day and may be too swapmed to escape for a proper lunch.
or even a liquid one.

Wow, you are a lucky lot, getting your mitts on Tim H!

Folks, I need your help. I'm trying to organise a ceilidh in Toronto four weeks tonight which is uncomfortably short notice to find a band. The Yellow Pages haven't turned up anything and google searching has given me little to go on, so I'm looking for recommendations. Don't suppose any of you have any contacts in the ceilidh band world?

what is a ceilidh and can i eat it?

You have to unwrap the kilt before you can get at the tasty stuff.

I'm up for next Thursday since I'm on vacation, Kim may even up for introducing ILXOR 2.0 depending on locale and stuff.

You can't have a ceilidh in Canada unless there are Newfies or Capers present. It's in the fine print to the BNA act of 1867.

Don't suppose any of you have any contacts in the ceilidh band world?

We'll how traditional are you looking? Because we are related to a celtic rock band but if you want the set dancing and stuff you really are leaving it to the last second. I think there is actually a club for ceilidh music at U of T you could try getitng them.

Oh and for a Friday lunch, what kind of food are you looking for? Salad King just north of you is freaking amazing but I'm not sure you want to chow down some yummy thai food before getting on a plane.

You're in a terrible spot at Queen and Yonge, but if you're willing to spend $$$, I recommend lunch at the Jamie Kennedy wine bar on Front and Church, or Monsoon at Simcoe and Pearl, both about ten minutes walk away. Pricey but awesome food. There's also a great bookstore at Front and Yonge, called Nicholas Hoare.

You could also take the elevator up to Canoe on Wellington, which is forbiddingly expensive for food, but has a nice affordable bar on the 54th floor with a great view of the city.

Alternatively if you want to go cheap (and especially if it's a sunny day), just take a cab to Queen and Bathurst and walk west to Trinity Bellwoods park (lots of stores, cafes). Or go to Kensington Market and just wander (lots of ethnic food and secondhand clothing, a bit grody but I live there and it's great).

Hello Toronto. If anyone does fancy a pint on Thursday evening, err, well if Rob doesn't swing by to tell you where I'll do so (if I make a bad choice we can move on to somewhere better, but London experience tends to point towards a brutal decision-making process being the only way).

I will be in Toronto this evening, but probably not until late. I'm looking forward to it, though not to the meetings which are the pirce of my stay.

Might be coming up this weekend.

Oh! Tim! Hello! Sundar, yes, go visit Tim! If I were still in Buffalo, I'd be up there in a heartbeat.

Visiting me will only really happen on Thursday evening I'm afraid (my precious few free hours on Friday may well be eaten by meetings, it seems.

I am flattered and delighted by personal recommendations from MAdchen and Molly: references don't come much higher-grade.

Oh booo! I'll be leaving town friday, sundar :(

update: i'm meeting tim at the cameron house at about 6:30 if anyone is around... he's actually staying at queen/university, which isn't a bad spot - basically just walk west along queen and see... well, lots.

I can see quite a lot where I am right now, which is on the 33rd floor of some great big tower.

See at least one of you later, I hope!

Sundar I don't suppose you're going ther for the TCAF comix festival?

I will be tabling at it w/some other NYC cartoonists (and former NYC cartoonists).

No, actually I don't even know what that is.

Just an "alternative" comic book show this weekend.

I've never been to Toronto. Plenty excited.

my friend is going to that comix show!