Posts tagged "Toronto"

Murder at the ROM

A curator at the ROM has been murdered – it’s up to you to discover whodunit! by Joanna Orland Scavenger Hunt company Urban Capers have taken their latest adventure to the world famous collections found at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum.  As a team (we were known as ‘ROM-ancing the Stone’), each group of 2-6 participants has to follow the […]

WorldPride 2014 Toronto

WorldPride Toronto Sunday June 29th, 2014 by Kathy Hui According to WorldPride Toronto’s website, Pride celebrations have been going on in Toronto for more than 30 years, but were not officially recognized by City Council until 1991. Since then, Toronto’s Pride has grown to a week-long event. This year’s festivities continued over a week and […]

NXNE 2010

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Events, Features, Music, Review | by — June 21, 2010

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by Cameron Stuckey As usual with Toronto’s NXNE music festival, too many bands, too little time. Let’s get right to it: Alphabot Thursday June 17, 2010 Whippersnapper Gallery Sporting a red cape like ‘Dancing Homer’ from an episode of the Simpsons, and a robot-shaped cardboard box on his head, the front man of Alphabot told […]

NXNE: North-by-Northeast

by Cameron Stuckey Each year, Toronto plays host to NXNE – a jampacked music festival that takes over venues across town and pretty much the entire city itself. A bit like Austin Texas’ SXSW, only with a lot more CanCon (Canadian content for you foreigners). Anyhoo, Loose Lips had our roving reporters on the scene. […]

NXNE: NorthByNorthEast

Toronto, Canada June 12 – 14 2008 www.nxne.com by Cameron Stuckey Each year the city of Toronto plays host to one of the great club-based music festivals happening in North America. North By Northeast (or NXNE as the hardcore fans know it) takes over the city and you can’t really be downtown without being fully […]

V Festival Toronto: From England With Love

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Events, Features, Music, Review | by — September 10, 2006

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Toronto Island by Joanna Orland The city of Toronto. Home to such festivals as the Toronto International Film Festival, and now North America’s first V Festival which took place on the island. What a beautiful backdrop, eh? While the UK’s V takes place in the countryside of Essex, Tdot’s V is only accessible by Ferry. […]

O Canada? More like V Canada!

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Events, Music, News | by — July 4, 2006

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V Festival is coming to CANADA!!! That’s right – the V festival is going international with its first major breakout in my lovely hometown of Toronto! WOO! The event will take place on Toronto Island from Sept 9-10 2006. There will be no camping, but lots of good music. We’ve got: Gnarls Barkley, Wolfmother, The […]