Toronto's Entertainment District hides one of its hardest-working rooms underground. Adelaide Hall occupies the lower level of 250 Adelaide Street West, its entrance tucked down the alley beside 26 Duncan Street - a 475-capacity basement venue where the MRG Group runs live music, DJ nights, club residencies and private events in whatever configuration the night demands. The programming leans emerging: touring indie rock, folk, hip-hop and electronic acts on their first Canadian headline runs sh.....

Exhibition Place added a music hall to its midway. Annabel's Music Hall at 200 Princes' Boulevard, on the grounds of Toronto's Exhibition Place next to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, is a 750-capacity music and entertainment venue operated by the MRG Group - one of Canada's largest independent live-entertainment and hospitality companies - built to give the lakeside grounds a genuine club-scale room alongside their theatres, arenas and festival lawns. The programming promise is deliberately broad.....

Arcadia Earth is an immersive art experience in downtown Toronto that leads visitors through a series of themed rooms designed to dazzle the senses while delivering a message about the environment and the impact of human activity on the planet. Originating in New York and brought to Toronto, the attraction combines large-scale installation art, projection, light and sound to create a sequence of richly imagined spaces, many of them built from recycled and repurposed materials, through which gues.....

Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest and most distinguished art museums in North America, holding a collection of some ninety thousand works that ranges from the first century to the present day and spans European, Canadian, Indigenous, African, Oceanic and contemporary art. The gallery grew up around the Grange, a historic Georgian house acquired in 1911 that remains part of the complex, and over more than .....

The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto is a specialised museum devoted entirely to footwear, displaying a rotating selection of around a thousand shoes and related objects drawn from a collection of nearly fifteen thousand that spans some four and a half thousand years of human history. The museum grew from the personal collection of Sonja Bata, a member of the family behind the international Bata shoe company, who over decades gathered footwear from around the world out of a conviction that shoes off.....

Canada's first soccer-specific stadium grew from bargain build to World Cup stage. BMO Field opened at Exhibition Place on Toronto's lakeshore in April 2007, a 62.9-million-dollar, 20,000-seat venue built on the site of the demolished Exhibition Stadium to serve two masters at once: the FIFA U-20 World Cup that Canada hosted that summer, and Toronto FC, Major League Soccer's first Canadian franchise, whose home debut on 28 April 2007 launched the supporter culture that made the south end's flag-.....

A 1911 mansion facade fronts one of Toronto's most rebuilt stages. The CAA Theatre at 651 Yonge Street, just south of Bloor in the heart of downtown, began as a Second Empire private residence, was gutted into a movie house called The Victory in 1919, and spent the next seventy years cycling through names - the Embassy from 1934, then the Astor, the Showcase and the Festival, under which it served as a premier venue of the Toronto International Film Festival in the 1970s. Live theatre arrived in.....

A livestock palace that once billed itself the largest building of its kind in the world now hosts the Toronto Maple Leafs' farm team. The Coca-Cola Coliseum at 100 Princes' Boulevard on the Exhibition Place grounds opened to the public on 16 December 1921, a million-dollar agricultural showpiece for the Canadian National Exhibition that took the name Coliseum in 1922 and, after 1926 additions, claimed the largest-structure-under-one-roof title. Its first great spectacle was pugilistic: the John.....

When Toronto's most loved after-hours club closed at its peak, its owners built the sequel a few kilometres north and named it for what follows an ending. CODA at 794 Bathurst Street, on the west side of Bathurst just north of Bloor in the Annex, was opened by Joel Smye and Stephan Philion, the pair behind the underground institution Footwork (2005-2013), in the space that had previously been the Annex Wreckroom rock venue. The first parties ran in late October 2013 and the club opened officiall.....

Amateur baseball's most storied Canadian diamond sits in a bowl dug by Victorian sand-shovels. Dominico Field is the full-sized, fenced ballpark at the heart of Christie Pits Park, the 22-acre former quarry at the corner of Bloor and Christie streets in Toronto's west end, its distinctive sunken geometry the legacy of the Christie Sand Pits that gave the park its enduring nickname long after it was formally dubbed Willowvale Park. The park carries heavy history. On 16 August 1933, months after .....