Toronto on the Cheap

The Bram & Bluma Apel Salon presents Scott Turow, author of the new thriller “Innocent” on Thursday, June 10, 2010. Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Admission is FREE. “Innocent” is the sequel to Turow’s bestseller novel “Presumed Innocent”. CBC journalist Michael Enright will also be there as part of the FREE Author Talks and [...]

The 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival takes place Saturday, May 8 and Sunday, May 9, 2010 at the Toronto Reference Library. Admission is FREE. Drop by and meet hundreds of international authors and cartoonists such as: Daniel Clowes, James Sturm, Charles Vess, Jeff Lemire, Jim Woodring, Dash Shaw, Paul Pope and others. Toronto Reference Library [...]

Love food and cooking? Join Mark McEwan and Jennifer Bain at The Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. for a FREE Star Talk Event. The topic will be about five star food, upscale retail and feeling “the heat”.  Mark McEwan is a celebrity chef Jennifer Bain [...]

Wayson Choy, one of my favourite writers will be at the Toronto Reference Library tomorrow (December 3, 2009) to read from his new book, Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. If you’ve enjoyed reading his other books, The Jade Peony, All that Matters, and Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood, you’ll enjoy meeting [...]