Omar landed in Toronto from Montreal seventeen years ago, following a girl. The girl didn't last. Toronto did. He's watched this city's music scene go through three different identities since then. The Drake era. The indie boom. The current thing that's harder to define but definitely happening. He's been to shows in Kensington Market basements, Queen West galleries turned concert venues, and those random warehouse parties in the Junction that you hear about through a friend of a friend. For AllEvents, Omar covers everything that happens after dark—and a lot of what happens during the day too. Live music, comedy nights, food festivals that take over entire neighborhoods, the parties that define Toronto summers. He knows which venues have good sightlines, which ones water down drinks, which sound systems are worth tolerating a cover charge. He lives in Little Portugal, takes the streetcar religiously, and has a complicated relationship with the Gardiner Expressway (hates it, still uses it). His weekend guides are detailed because Toronto weekends require planning—there's always too much happening, which is a good problem to have. Omar writes it down. You show up. That's the deal.
