This weekend is the one your favourite furry friend has been waiting for. This year's Woofstock kicks off again tomorrow and will see Front St. closed off from Jarvis to Yonge as hundreds of drooling, hyperactive dogs take to the streets, with owners in tow for North America's largest outdoor dog festival.

I stumbled across last year's festival merely by accident and it was a lot of fun seeing dogs just totally losing it, not knowing what to do with themselves they were so excited. Whether it was officially sanctioned or not, the fountain just west of the Flatiron building ended up getting a good dose of soap, and was full of dogs covered in suds.

This year's festival runs all-day this Saturday and Sunday in the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood, and will play host to events like the Stupid Dock Tricks Contest, Extreme Doggie Makeovers, a fashion show and costume contest and plenty of vendors selling trendy dog clothes that Fido will surely never forgive you for.

They'll also be running a new event this year, the Ontario Dock Dogs on Market Street contest which really boils down to a long jump for dogs in an inflatable pool. For more information, check out the Woofstock site and be sure to stoop and scoop!

Photo by blogTO Flickr Pool contributor, Taylor Zhou

Any time some group tries to claim they are the "first", I start to raise an eyebrow. Particularly when a group like Boylesque comes along and claims to be "Toronto's first all-male burlesque show".

Toronto's no stranger to burlesque - maybe it's something in the water, but I see more burlesque troupes announcing performances at Goodhandy's or your favourite West Queen West drinking hole every week. My big question for Boylesque - where's the beef?

June seems to be the month of choice for festival organizers looking to capitalize on our all-too-brief summer, and Luminato is one that really stood out last year. We were treated to a wealth of free visual arts spread about the city from the giant, building-sized art and a wide variety of suspended installations (my first piece with blogTO) to the spectacular beacons of light at Harbourfront that responded to your pulse (shown above).

This Friday, Luminato will kick off again. This year, they've stepped up the dance and performance-related events, and there's noticeably fewer public art installations. Either way, there's some interesting venues to check out at the festival. Keep reading for my picks.

Who said there was nothing to do a Tuesday night? If you're not going to be getting your party on tonight at Toronto the Good, maybe a good dose of bitchy comedy could do the trick.

Andrew Johnston (who I profiled last year in our 'Through the Eyes Of' series) will be hosting a "melange of live comedy for bitchy queens by bitchy queens" tonight at Buddies.

Tomorrow night, the Spacing folks are throwing their fourth annual Toronto the Good event along with the ERA Architects, Toronto Society of Architects, Heritage Toronto, Wireless Toronto, and [murmur]. The organizers are hoping attendees will get together to discuss the idea of an 'urban centre' and how that could work here in Toronto.

The event will also play host to an interactive map of the city (last year, attendees were asked to place markers where they got drunk, had their first kiss, and got busy for the first time), a public text message display board and a few other artistic displays.

The venue for this event, the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District is spectacular, and it's not a bad deal for food included at $10/head, but what last year's event really came down to was a glorified schmooze-fest with opportunities for rubbing elbows with architects galore.

Get on your walking shoes! The city is throwing its annual Doors Open Toronto festival this weekend, May 24-25. Doors Open is a chance for you to explore and discover some of the very unique buildings and sites around the city - many of which are typically inaccessible to the general public.

There are more locations than ever participating this year, and with the city's fairly unwieldy listings database, I thought I'd make your life a little easier this weekend by making a shortlist of places to see this weekend at Doors Open Toronto.