Weekend Ideas

Are you fleeing the big smoke to go smoke a smore under the stars?

Cottage Craftiness

- Dip your roasted marshmallows in Bailey's
- Instead of telling ghost stories, play ghost and crawl out of dark spaces with zinc ointment on your face BOO
- Bring some string and go back to the good ol days of making embroidered necklaces and talking about Hanson
- Turn on some cottage appropriate tunes; Steve Miller Band, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, CCR, April Wine & Trooper NO MOBY, it doesn’t work.
- Build a raft with sticks and pretend you are Huckleberry Finn or survivors from the Titanic; do not play Marco Polo, no one really likes that game
- Time Capsule – what would you put in? What’s hot RIGHT now? That slick club gum FIVE, gladiator shoe, MGMT disc (nearly old)

THURSDAY

Moving away from the time capsule to back in time with stuttering Stanley at Thurday night’s SPELL CHECK - a spelling bee for adults:

Remember when everyone and their dog bragged about how they knew the word antidisestablishmentarism. Or the schoolyard debate on whether that was actually the longest word or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? I bet the longest word in the world is actually Thai. Either way, the lust for language is back at Whippersnapper! Expect a wonky art show and vowel embarrassments. (Better than bowel embarrassments).

Whippersnapper Gallery
587 College St – upstairs
9PM
$5 – Proceeds go to Parkdale Project Read

For those who want to dress up and impose their musical selection on the bar, LOBBY is having an IPOD battle.

Mingle with the rich gangsters and treat yourself to a deluxe three course meal for a sweet summerlicious twenty five bucks.

What would your top five songs be?

To get people on the dance floor fast, this would be my emergency five:
BOYZ – M.I.A
American Boy – Estelle
Temperature; Sean Paul
Lip Gloss; L'il Mama
Stronger; Kanye West

LOBBY
192 Bloor St West
9PM – 2AM

Manchester electronic disco pop group, The Whip will be joined by local hotter than hot Foxfire and DJ Vaneska @ Wrongbar
Sure to be a packed house
SDTC writer Haley Cullingham interviewed Foxfire, check out:
www.shedoesthecity.com/music

1279 Queen St West
Advance Tix: 12. 50, Rotate This, Play de Record

FRIDAY

FREE SLURPEE DAY!! Noon until 11:59PM
Heavenly @ 7/11.

Friday at the Movies – go check out BOMB IT @ The Bloor
Documentary about Graffitti, its da bomb.
http://www.bombit-themovie.com/
7-9PM
506 Bloor St. West

THE WACKNESS opens and this is the MUST SEE MOVIE OF THE SUMMER
See review for details:
www.shedoesthecity.com/arts

COLLAGE @ Tiger Bar
Pop Tarts / Soul Sistas / Girl Groups
NO COVER and cheap drinks
Cut a rug and glue yourself to some cutie 444 College Street
9PM – 2AM

SATURDAY

Costume Sale @ Toronto Film Studios
Seeing as though everyone is wearing costumes as regular garb nowadays – this makes even more sense.
Who would you dress as? I pick either Maggie Gyllenhaal from Secretary or Mia Farrow in Bonnie and Clyde.
629 Eastern Avenue
9AM - 5PM
$2 admission – tote bags encouraged

MIDNIGHT MADNESS; fashion styles

VINTAGE 69 will be having a mega sale from 12PM – 12AM
FREE LEMONADE with your $10 T-shirt
1100 Queen St. West

Turning Point
A man called Warwick will be impressing music fans with a FIVE HOUR SOLO SET and a gigantic range of songs. Latin cumbia to Caribbean tropical rhythms; this is a night for people who like to dance. As always, arrive early for this well established monthly, and take a trip around the world.

$10 / doors open at 10PM
Gladstone Hotel
1213 Queen St. West

Burlesque Ball @ Mod Club
Quite simply a terrific way to spend an evening that will no doubt leave you with a story. Dirty Martini, Coco Framboise and Tigger will be putting on a show and ripping it all off one little bit at a time.
More info:
www.myspace.com/tiggernyc
www.myspace.com/cocoframboise
www.myspace.com/dirtymartiniburlesque
722 College Street
$35
7PM – 10PM

ALL WEEKEND LONG

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition @ Nathan Phillips Square. Take a wander through a maze of drawings and buy some cool stuff for your wall.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY and SUNDAY.

STRIPPING CONTEST

BOYLESQUE – our very own all boy burlesque troupe

well not totally:

BOYLESQUE T.O.!
TORONTO’S FIRST ALL-MALE BURLESQUE TROUPE

PRESENTS THEIR FIRST EVER PERFORMANCE
BOY OH BOY!
A HILARIOUS NIGHT OF BOYS, BURLESQUE & BAWDY THRILLS

Shedoesthecity has two tix to giveaway for this night of nakedness and fun.

Thursday, July 24th @ The Gladstone Hotel,
1214 Queen St. W. Toronto at 8:30pm

In a series of sexy and uproarious five-minute acts, performers will undress and unpack some of the most famous male archetypes in history and pop culture (think macho hockey players and gay cowboys) plus some of Toronto’s most recognizable and fetishized male cultural icons (like your TTC operator or your local queen west barista).

For a chance to win e-mail: contests@shedoesthecity.com, subject line – YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON

Oh you brash ball breaker!