An industrial block west of Weston Road hides one of Toronto's busiest warehouse stages. 131 McCormack Street, in the Junction-area industrial strip south of St. Clair Avenue West, operates as the Black Creek Assembly - a venue run by Lands Black Creek Arts and Culture and dedicated, in its own words, to the creation and presentation of artistic works by a diverse range of artists. Film screenings, runway and fashion shows, and live music and dance performances share the big assembly room. The .....

Toronto's Garrison had a problem: it was too big for the bands it loved. The Baby G at 1608 Dundas Street West is owner Shaun Bowring's answer, opened in September 2016 as a satellite club to his 300-capacity Garrison a few blocks east, sized so a local band drawing a hundred people fills the room instead of rattling around a half-empty one. The space - a former sports bar called Bola Bar, and a butcher shop back in the 1980s - splits into a front bar and a back stage room, each with its own ba.....