Get out the BBQ tongs, the beer and your badass friends – strike a match and blow up the sky, because it’s MAY 24!!(even if it isn’t actually the 24th of May.
Celebrate by watching gay films, attending cat parties, questioning Japanese sex stereotypes and throwing fake birthday parties.
REFORMATION @ MAGIC PONY
Holy Fuck raising money for Earthroots at Wrongbar
BOMBSHELLS AND SWEET BEATS
NOTORIOUS B.I.G
THURSDAY
FILM
Inside Out Gay and Lesbian Film Festival kicks off with No Bikini and Like A Virgin at the Varsity theatre, 8PM
The first film is about a girl who passes as a guy at summer camp, and the second is a Korean gem about a boy who competes in a boxing tournament to earn money for a sex change.
Running for ten days, this festival covers a huge range including a focus on larger than life queer icons, experimental and subversive work, coming out stories and sexual discovery in youth, a special on Australian queer films – dancing, romancing, kink, insight and love, check out all that this fest has to offer:
http://www.insideout.on.ca/18Annual/index.htm
THEATRE
Have you ever watched Japanese porn? Even if you haven’t, you likely know the stereotypes of submissive toy like women, as our culture has been over saturated with these images.
Sexual Practices of The Japanese is a play that examines these stereotypes. This is the last weekend to get tix for this provocative and moving play.
Factory Theatre
125 Bathurst Street
http://www.factorytheatre.ca/
ART
Internationally renowned toy designer and illustrator Nathan Jurevicius is having a solo show at Magic Pony called Reformation
Known for both his fine art and commercial design, Nathan’s paintings are imaginative bursts of colour that transform one quickly into a different world of warped shapes and scary-pretty things.
Also – he has created a limited run of Bronzed Owl toys, exclusive to Magic Pony. Hoot hoot!
694 Queen West
7-10 PM
http://www.magic-pony.com/index.php
DEBAUCHERY
Long weekend means – screw Friday. No one’s going to care if you are hungover, as most people will quietly be looking up BBQ recipes and planning their city escapes. SOO – go nuts tonight!
For those who want heated moments with strangers while listening to rock anthems and doing shots of bourbon – new College St bar Strange Love will be most definitely turn naughty tonight.
Join the ladies of Chapman&Brough, DJ Trevor and the Pussy Posse for a night of revelry and ‘who cares that I work tomorrow’ fun.
Strange Love, 587 College
SNEAKERS & NOISE
College Street not your scene? Fine you too cool for school hipster – head to Parkdale
Schools Out Forever Tour with Treasure Fingers and Kill The Noise
Wrongbar – 1279 Queen West
Blending softer electro beats into the typically harsh noise we have recently been accustomed to. Expect to fall in love with a new sound – described as Aphex Twin meets Dr Dre meets Chromeo.
I listened, I liked:
http://www.myspace.com/treasurefingers
http://www.myspace.com/killnoisekill
DANCING LIKE F*CKING
I don’t care about new French influenced electro, or getting wasted with horny Bay St. types, I’d rather Dance Like I Fuck a la Richard Simmons.
Head to AVALON with your weird hat and drop $10 at the door (but only $5 if you say ‘Medley’). DJ Barbi of Syntonics will be on the decks.
www.myspace.com/djbarbi
www.dancelikeyoufuck.ca
http://www.richardsimmons.com/j/
Avalon, 230 Richmond St. W
FRIDAY
Holy Fuck will be playing at Wrongbar to raise money for Earthroots
1279 Queen West
$12 cover at door, $10 advance at Rotate This or Sonic Boom
http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck
10 PM until the environment is fucked over completely, oh wait – it already is. In that case, until a cat walks by with a cowboy hat and tells you to go green or get screwed.
REBEL PARTY
LOST CATS are back!
A fun night of chill peeps who know how to throw an unpretentious cool shindig. Again, I really wish I held an awards ceremony for best DJ name, I think DJ CTV NEWS AT NOON would at least get runner up.
Augusta House
152A Augusta, Kensignton Market
Clearly Friday night is all about cats going wild.
FAKE BIRTHDAY @ CiRCA; Happy Birthday to Nobody and Everybody!
– is it fair to say they were desperate for a theme? Doesn’t matter because if you fall in the under twenty five category then this is a night for you to get sloshed and slam cakes in each other’s faces. Sound like a dream come true? Thought so.
DANCING DANCING
DROP THE LIME
Brooklyn, NY
www.myspace.com/dropthelime
FRANKIE CHAN
i Heart Comix, Los Angeles
www.myspace.com/iheartcomix
CIRCA
126 John St.
SAT
QUEEN WEST ART TOUR
Art aficionado Betty Ann Jordan leads a tour of the best Queen West exhibitions, especially the Contact Festival’s shows, $25.
12 – 3:30 PM
1150 Queen West
$25
Nice for you and your man or if you happened to fudge Mother’s Day
ADRIFT SKATE SHOP OPENING; this Shoe Party will be a Shoe-in!
Ouch, what am I? An apple farmer from Picton? Yikes – the launch party of Adrift Skate Shop will certainly be cooler than my intro.
Sponsored by VANS and spun by Johnny Hockin and Shit La Merde
116 Spadina, Suite 62
8-11PM
VINTAGE SPREE
DENNIS’ HOUSE OF VINTAGE IS CLOSING AT THE QUEEN STREET LOCATION and having a big sale
Wooohooo rock tees, hippy dresses, used pink pumps and ol’ chucks!
571 Queen St. West
RETRO THROWBACK AND THROWDOWN
Going Steady @ The Boat
Boys and girls together at a dance like the good ol days when mom was a virgin and dad had a stutter.
Twang, surf, big beat, good ol’ rock n’ roll.
158 Augusta
Hip Hop Karaoke @ THE GLADSTONE
Whoah – this night is getting more momentum than Napoleon corralling French troops in 1796, which is why it keeps moving from venue to venue.
Be Biggie, Be Common, Be Tupac – No Diggity, No Doubt.
9PM – $6
SUNDAY / MONDAY
BONDE DO ROLE AND DEATHSET = COMPLETE MAYHEM
It’s the Bondo De Role & Deathset Holiday Party @ The Social
This is the most fun Brazilian band ever – possibly the most fun band to see live.
Listen to Solto o Frango, and it makes you want to dance around a campfire waving around colourful scarves whilst bopping people on the head with fun balloons and throwing macaroni in the sky.
1100 Queen St
Advance tix ONLY, $10 at soundscapes, rotate this or www.ticketweb.ca
Read Robyn’s full report:
www.shedoesthecity.com/nightlife
http://www.myspace.com/bondedorole
Park yourself on a grassy knoll at Ontario Place, light one up for Queen Victoria, and stare at the sky. They will be doing fireworks both Sunday and Monday
Xo
J
PS – AGO changed their logo, like?
GNARLS BARKLEY PRIZE PACK!
Listen up all you party throwers and emerging DJ’s, and anyone who appreciates great dance music, we have the ultimate Gnarls Barkley prize pack to giveaway!
-a limited edition "The Odd Couple" double vinyl record (one record plays the album forward, the other plays it backwards)
-a copy of "The Odd Couple" CD
-a copy of their first album "St. Elsewhere"
-a copy of Estelle‘s album "Shine" featuring an appearance by Gnarls Barkley singer Cee-Lo – the album that is currently being played non stop in my house and rocking my world!
Gnarls Barkley, an enigmatic presence in the entertainment business, formally introduced himself in 2006, to the tune of the popular song "Crazy." He released the acclaimed LP St. Elsewhere, garnered two Grammy Awards (and six nominations), and became a global phenomenon without ever appearing in public. He doesn’t care for the word "should."
With fame came attention, and Gnarls doesn’t care for attention, either. Thus, to protect himself from the public gaze, he split himself in two, the yin and the yang. This opened a tunnel through the forbidden underworld of popular music and human psychology, a world explored on Gnarls Barkley’s second LP, The Odd Couple.
To enter to win e-mail contests@shedoesthecity.com
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