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Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata This musical by Vancouver singer- composer Veda Hill and CBC host Bill Richardson explores the most universal of themes—how to fulfill a desire for connection. Find out more »
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Fran Lebowitz appears in conversation with Jian Ghomeshi this Friday at Massey Hall (Image: courtesy of Fran Lebowitz)
In this edition of The Weekender: a Chinese New Year festival, the queen of Italian-American cuisine and three more things to do in Toronto.
THEATRE
1. Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata
For this 90-minute song cycle, Vancouver singer-composer Veda Hille and CBC host Bill Richardson took actual Craigslist postings and set them to music. The result is alternately humorous (“Need Sarah Palin look-alike for adult film”) and poignant (the Missed Connections), as the show’s central theme slowly emerges: the desire to connect in an increasingly virtual world. $35–$47. To March 3. Factory Theatre, 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca
Farmer’s market season has arrived (Image: Kevin Ho)
Monday, July 2
Fiona seeks Jeff (Image: delaynomoar)
We live in the age of Craigslist Missed Connections, but that isn’t stopping one Toronto resident from landing her man the old-fashioned way: creating eight-and-a-half-by-11-sized posters and a Gmail account, and postering a small section of the city. The woman, “Fiona,” is looking for her man, “Jeff,” after the two presumably shared a conversation at a Blue Jays game. Fiona has asked Jeff to write his favourite type of music in the subject line, like a real life Captcha test. (Our guess is dubstep.)
Update: Torontoist got in touch with Fiona and found out that, though she did track down Jeff, it turns out he’s in a long-term relationship. Too bad! (Well, for Fiona, at least. We guess that’s nice for Jeff.)
• Spotted in Leslieville: Are you the JEFF I’m looking for? [Reddit]
• Are you a Jeff from Leslieville? [Leslieviller]
While it may be fun to get sucked into the maelstrom of mid-century modern reproductions on Craigslist and Kijiji for a few minutes, we often suffer from click fatigue. (There’s a lot of junk to sort through.) In an effort to put an end to click fatigue in our lifetime, commercial film director Aleysa Young started “The Listings List” on Tumblr to showcase the best local steals on the Internet—because she loves hunting down a bargain, and presumably because she’s a masochist.
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