Harbourfront Centre Festivals Ah ... summer. It's not quite here yet. Today it was freezing, the rain was pouring, and from my desk at the office, I was sure I saw specks of white stuff floating in the air (no, I'm not going to say it). Coming home tonight, I had to have the heater on in the car. It was cold. Regardless, summer is coming. It's inevitable (say that with an Agent Smith voice). WIth summer time, are my plans to take in the free shows at Harbourfront - my youngest will hopefully find some of these appealing, as she is the only one I can possibly count on for some consistent company at these events:
  • Sol Soulstice: June 20-22
  • Anthems & Icons: June 27-29
  • Labatt Blue's Festival: July 4-6
  • World's Fare: The America's Now: July 10-13, 18-20
  • Francophonix: July 25-27
  • Free Flicks: Weekly, July 3-Aug. 23 (This for my eldest and I.)
  • Guinness Island Soul: Aug. 1-4
  • Masala! Mehndi! Masti!: Aug. 8-10
  • Gobsmacked!: Aug. 15-17
  • Stella Artois Hot & Spicy Food Festival: Aug. 22-24
  • Fresh: Aug. 29-Sept. 1
    • I went to the Harbourfront summer festivals last year. It was amazing! Great food, a few great shows - notables were the Blue's Festival, Island Soul, and the Hot & Spicy Food Festival. If you want to see the see pictures from the festivals last year, be sure to check out my webshots accounts (left column). I'll be there this year again with my digital camera. Hopefully no one takes it away from me.

    Comments

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    The first chef

    First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
    Read more

    Inner Cow

    Image
    This has got to be one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen. Researchers cut holes into the sides of cows and insert an cannula, which allows access to a live animals stomach. These holes are so big, you can actually see what's going on inside -- literally, reach into the stomach of a cow. Cows stomach have millions microbes that aid in digestion, and surprisingly, cannulated cows are usually the healthiest of the herd. You would think that walking around with a hole in your stomach would be bad for you, but apparently not. Some farmers apparently keep cannulated cows in their herd so they can serve as microbe donors to sick cows. Just bizarre. [Source: Oddity Central ]
    Read more

    Blogs of Note

    Who Would Jesus Hate? -- described as providing "anecdotal evidence of how religion is on the wrong side of every social issue." Fugetaboutit! -- hilarious site from a "48-year-old shrinking Italian comedian ." Take the tagline for instance: "I saw the face of Jesus in my lasagna ... briefly."
    Read more