Venue Closures: Venue and Silver Dollar

venue closures: It was just the latest in a series of venue closures in Toronto, but it brought the simmering panic in the scene to a boil, according to NOW Magazine. If such an iconic, long-running venue was being edged out, too, how could any small, emerging or DIY venue stand a chance Ward 20 councillor Joe Cressy later clarified that the Silver Dollar, closing May 1, had attained heritage status and, as part of a deal with the developers of the student residence high-rise replacing the Hotel Waverly near College and Spadina, it will legally have to reopen in some capacity. Rating NNNNEarlier this month, the Highest Order put up a Facebook event for their Farewell To The Silver Dollar show and accidentally broke the news that the long-running bar would be closing. The date and character of that new Silver Dollar are uncertain, as is the status of the occasionally infamous local hero who's given it so much of its vitality and edge over the last decade booker/promoter Dan Burke. The heritage status thing doesn't matter, said Highest Order lead singer Simone Schmidt near the end of the second set. Walking past Burke at the door of the Dollar on Saturday night, as I have so many times before, through the elbow-to-elbow crowd to the back bar and ordering a Labatt 50 only to be corrected with a Molson Stock, for approximately the 123rd time that sense of loss became more and more pointed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.