Weekend Ideas

So who’s hanging with Brad Pitt this weekend?

BURN AFTER READING party is this FRIDAY, ARE YOU ON THE GUEST LIST??

Pshhhaww – as if your wit can swindle that. (Ahem, but if you do get in E-mail me RIGHT away!!)

The bad news, TIFF parties are mega tight, the good news…it doesn’t matter because all the drunk fun ones will be at The Drake until 4AM.

THURSDAY

Passchendaele party upstairs, Nacho Lovers and Vitaminsforyou in the underground.

I wonder if the two parties will start a war and charge the Sky Yard? Great Canadian cinema? Me thinks so.

Do you want this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6WYHagWdeE

Or this:
http://www.myspace.com/vitaminsforyou

They don’t call it a hot bed for culture for nothing!
1150 Queen St. West

ckone presents FESTIVAL BALL 2008 AKA The giant VICE party
w/the Juan Maclean and Nasty Nav and some seriously secret guest. (Samantha Ronson?)

Last year the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s show was out of control. I think five people out of the 1000 got in, not saying that that will happen this year – just sayin.’

Hart House, Doors at 8pm, rsvp festivalball@viceland.com (FAT CHANCE NOW – just show up and pretend you are that secret guest)

FILM FEST LAUNCH @ The Social
Once you are done partying it up like a Vice “DO”, hit the Social for some late last call mess and become a Vice “Don’t” at remarkable speed.
1100 Queen St. West

FRIDAY

Canadian Premiere of Norway. Today

Screw TIFF, I’m going to see a play about suicide.

See our review for details:
Theatre Smash’s Norway. Today
416-531-1827 for tickets

Hold Tight On Ossington

Get me away from the film festival line ups and stick me next to some hairy dude that will boogie with me allll night long.
61 Ossington
No Cover

Goin’ Steady

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boo!! Stop lying to bouncers that you are some LA Agent for Mark Ruffalo – and have some real fun.

Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Function Junction, what’s your function?

When The Bohemian Embassy and Westside Lofts are erected where do you think all the artists will go? Looking for a house in the next cool neighbourhood? Hit your real estate agent up for a Saturday tour in the West West West. (The more “wests” you have, the cooler life gets).

Go get a taste at the Junction Arts Festival – and then stick around in the evening for a lager at the sweetest thing since Sweaty Betty’s – Margaret.

Dundas St. W from Keele to Quebec Ave
100th Anniversary of the Junction!!
Live music, installations, street performers, juried art exhibition

The Junction Arts Festival

V-Fest

BLOC PARTY, MGMT, OASIS, STEROPHONICS – get your ass over to the island and dance in the sunshine.
Tickets are still available at www.ticketmaster.ca

Catch a celeb:

You can aimlessly troll Yorkville pretending you are going to buy jeans at Over The Rainbow, meanwhile you are in fact a stalker – but sort of half stalking and half hoping to be stalked OR you can do this smooth move if you have some cash to spare:

Book a reservation at one of these more than fine establishments and I can nearly guarantee you will run into someone:

Joso’s
Rosewater Supper Club
OPUS
Pangaea
PREGO
SASSAFRAZ
ONE
BISTRO 990
SOTTO SOTTO

Dining experience that won’t break the bank:

The Drake is having a special TIFF Prix Fixe dinner for $45 or $75 if you want wine pairing with each course.

Yarmouth Lobster and Chanterelle Mushroom Ragout, Braised Beef Short Ribs and Apple Brown Betty. Reserve a spot now and then kick around for the party.

Starting today, and continuing throughout our beloved fest, I will be blogging multiple times a day for Toronto Life. Gossip, fashion, interviews, street beat – maybe street meat, brushes with fame, a little bit of everything, all the time Go check it out: WWW.TIFF.TO

Got any celebrity spottings? Wild party stories? E-mail me pronto and we’ll chat.

RUSH RUSH RUSH!

FILMS TO RUSH EACH DAY – IT DOESN’T ALWAYS WORK BUT WHEN IT DOES OHHHH, DOES IT EVER FEEL GOOD!

I’ve heard that rushing at THE ELGIN and RTH work best, as they are enormous and all those sponsors who get tix often leave them on their desk to go play golf.

THURSDAY

7:00-9:27 pm
Acne
directed F. Veiroj
@ Varsity 3

9:30 pm-11:24 pm
RocknRolla
directed by Guy Ritchie 
@VISA Screening Room [Elgin]

FRIDAY

6:00 pm- 7:47 pm
Me and Orson Welles
directed by Richard Linklater
Ryerson Theatre

6:15pm-7:36pm
American Swing
directed by M. Kaufman and J. Hart
AMC 10

9:30pm-11:06pm
Burn After Reading
directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Roy Thomson Hall

SATURDAY

6:45pm-8:37pm
New York, I Love You
Various Directors
Varsity 8

9:00pm-11:01pm
Blindness
Directed by F.Meirelles
VISA Screening Room [Elgin]

9:00pm-10:41pm
Religulous
Directed by L.Charles
Ryerson Theatre

SUNDAY

4:15pm-5:51pm
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Directed by M. Tyrnauer
WinterGarden Theatre

6:00pm-7:45pm
The Wrestler
D. Aronofsky
VISA Screening Room [Elgin]

6:30pm-8:19pm
The Duchess
Directed by S. Dibb
Roy Thomson Hall