Top of the pops
Boozy dads, competitive dads and history-buff dads (are there even any other types of dads?) will be well served this weekend. Parkdale's Café Taste is hosting the third annual Ontario Wine Fair, with over 70 tipples and a whack of great cheeses on offer. (Saturday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. $55. www.cafetaste.ca) Meanwhile, fresh-air fiends can enjoy sun-kissed lake water, rippling sinews and punny team names at the Dragon Boat Festival on the Toronto Islands. (Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Centre Island. www.dragonboats.com) If the bellows of coxswains aren't loud enough for you, maybe the crack of 200 rifles at Black Creek Pioneer Village's Revolutionary War re-enactment will be. (Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $11-$15. www.blackcreek.ca)
Where the Wild Child Is
Revisit your pre-parental years by freaking with the mysteriously un-age-able Iggy Pop, who plays NXNE this weekend at Yonge-Dundas Square with The Stooges. Of course, if that doesn't strike your fancy, there are also 650 other bands playing the festival - starting with A Horse and His Boy and ending with Zola Jesus, recommended by our own Brad Wheeler. . (Iggy plays Saturday at 9:30 p.m. www.nxne.com)
Bush league
Do you like flowers? Do you like landscaping? Do you like creeping into strangers' backyards? Have we got the event for you! The annual tour called Through the Garden Gate showcases the greenery in a different Toronto neighbourhood each year. This summer, it's the Beaches, where a "master gardener" will be on hand to illuminate the various features of 26 of the east end's most sylvan glades. Cooling your tootsies in a strangers' birdbath you should still do on your own time. (Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. www.torontobotanicalgarden.ca)
Fruit of the Luminato
It's Luminato's answer to Disneyland: the Wish Come True Festival, which invites you and your family to Queen's Park to experience "magic, luck and friendship (TM)." Kids won't mind the commingling of commerce and art - bouncy castles and balloons are a pretty sure crowd-pleasure with the short-pants set. (Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Queen's Park North. Free. www.luminato.com)
A very together social scene
There's an adage that says everyone's seen a hipster but no one is one. Test that hypothesis out this weekend at the Toronto Island Concert, which will feature a spectacular lineup of bands, including indie sweethearts Broken Social Scene. Don't forget to bring your Sally Jesse Raphael specs and skinny jeans - just to blend in, of course. (Saturday. Gates open at 1 p.m. $64. www.torontoislandconcert.com)