Sinister: Toronto picnic

[vincent wong]

For music shops, you should check out soundscapes, its a little store on
collage street strip, just west of bathurst, amazing indie section including
a whole section dedicated to just matador artist, and also a 4AD section.

vince

on 6/15/00 1:40 PM, Red Geisha at geishalass at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> 
> And also have a few
>> recommendations on what to see? where to stay? and where to go out?:)
> 
> There are a million good places to stay it depends on what your range is.
> You may want to see the usual, CN Tower, Canada's Wonderland, etc. Queen St.
> & Yorkville are two of the better shopping experiences. Penguin Music @
> Queen & McCaul is your best to find good music...you can also look at a
> bunch of flyers in any of the clothing/music stores on Queen St. to fit your
> musical tastes. As for places to club there are three or four options,
> depending on your taste. A new night is beginning on the 23rd @ the Down One
> called "The Vanity Fair" which will feature pop, uk indie, etc. There is
> also "The International Colouring Contest" on every 2nd Friday. "Soul Night"
> at the Rivoli happens once or twice monthly. There is also "Blow-Up" on
> Saturdays which is a soul, groove, psych, uk-indie, pop night and has been
> running in various incarnations for four years. That is located at the El
> Mocamobo @ Spadina & College. We have loads of beautiful bars in the city &
> some new hot Bubble tea rooms. Try the College strip for nice bars &
> Cumberland St. for the new Bubble tea room. For more interesting eye candy
> I'd also visit Chinatown on the weekend, Kensington Market, the AGO or the
> Bata Shoe Museum.
> 
>> As for the picnic.. Can anyone help me find a nice park where we can go?:)
>> 
> Ha! You obviously didn't get the memo, all our parks have been inhabited by
> the cities homeless. Many of our downtown parks aren't worth the bother
> anymore as our gov't has been skimpy on cheap housing...some people even
> have tents! There is High Park (the best park in the city) but it is
> massive. The park in Kensington isn't too bad but it really depends on the
> day and weekends are also filled with suburban kids napping before their
> next "party".
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