Saturday Night on Yonge Street

There was SOO much happening around town last weekend it was impossible to keep up. Saturday evening we had a fabulous dinner at Starfish. Mmmmm- can never have enough oysters! We spared our hosts the embarrassment of photographing all our food, so it's one meal out we won't be covering here.

We took a lovely stroll home with the objective of passing by Yonge-Dundas Square. En route we discovered that Yonge Street was closed to traffic from Queen St to Edward Street, which made for a lively street party.

We paused out in front of the Elgin/ Winter Garden Theatres (above), where the posters were up for Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna. It made its North American debut at Luminato, which wrapped the next day.

A little up the block the old vacant city-owned bank structure was sporting the Irish flag for some undisclosed reason.

Up at Yonge-Dundas Square the crowd was thick. They were there to see Iggy Pop, who was appearing as part of the weekend wind-down of the NxNE Indie Music festival.

We craned our necks, looking for a sinewy shirtless pixie on stage, but alas, he must be even shorter than we'd imagined. The rest of the crowd seemed pretty nonplussed about being unable to see the wizened old master of punk- they were just groovin' on the soundtrack & the street vibe.

As we left the square, we caught advance warning of the G20 chaos anticipated THIS weekend.

Le Château already had a pride theme going in their windows.

The Zanz was in full spleandour...

The T-shirt shops were as crass as ever...

The shawarma shops were as unappetizing as ever...

The portraitists were still waiting...

...and the College streetcar was full of folks on the move.