If you've paid Montréal a visit lately, you've probably seen a Bixi bike. The bulky, vaguely European-looking public cruisers have been gracing the streets of La Belle Ville since last spring, when the program launched to the tune of twenty thousand subscriptions. Last night, hundreds of keen bike enthusiasts hit the Gladstone Hotel for the BIXI Toronto Bash to launch Toronto's Bixi membership campaign. If one thousand people subscribe for memberships by November, Toronto will get a Bixi fleet to call its own. more ›

Reading Jon Clinch’s Kings of the Earth is like eating in a busy restaurant. The many voices ring together as a single chaotic noise, but if you’re patient and listen carefully, you can break down the voices, listen to the individual stories, and understand how they weave together, turning that noise into a narrative. more ›

The first time I heard about Amanda Lew Kee was from a friend raving about her Mass Exodus showing as part of the Ryerson University student collections. It wasn’t until I met Amanda a few weeks later—when she rolled up to The Room at the Bay, leather-clad in her own design and with supermodel-in-the-making (and good friend) Nadine McAdam in tow—that I appreciated how far ahead of the young pack she is. more ›

How do you sum a city up in a phrase? Harder still, how do you sell it in one? more ›

So, Scarborough stinks, Rob Ford didn't get physical, and hydro users are in for a shock. more ›

Tonight, the Craft Beer Festival and Summer BBQ stays cool, photographer Christina Leslie challenges the legacy of blackface, Carl Hiaasen discusses his own private Florida, and The Stills perform and steer clear of pigeon poop at the Horseshoe. more ›

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World reviews are leaking out, and they're overwhelmingly positive. ("The Godfather [of] deadpan hipster comedies," Cinematical says.) Meanwhile, Exclaim's cover story this week is all about the film's music. more ›

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Imagine you’re a movie producer in 1970 searching for a location in Toronto to shoot a thriller about organ transplants. The script calls for a semi-futuristic scientific complex. Your problem is solved quickly thanks to the recently opened Ontario Science Centre. Within its walls you shoot a film that you hope will impress viewers of ABC’s Movie of the Week and theatregoers in Canada. more ›

Will Eno is a Guggenheim Fellowship–winning playwright whom Toronto audiences might remember for his Pulitzer-finalist drama Thom Pain (based on nothing), which played at Tarragon a few seasons back. However, outside of that show, Toronto hasn't seen much of the acclaimed writer's work, and new independent company Outside the March's production of his play Oh, the Humanity (and other good intentions)—which opened last night—is actually the show's Canadian premiere. The show is made up of five vignettes that focus on realistic characters in vulnerable situations—a couple attempt online dating, an airline spokesperson must account for a tragedy, a coach gives a press conference after a football season. But in the heightened world of Eno, that realistic coach could easily enough find himself bursting into form poetry. more ›

Okay, I swear this is the last one. Really, I promise. No more of this tangent I’ve been on. As a friend of mine recently wrote on Facebook: “After the mensire, the murse, now the mirt?” Yes, it’s time to drag out that ol’ chestnut, the male skirt. Why? Have you been in the city for the last month? The heat, ya lummox! more ›

One of the biggest TTC rider gripes these days is how we pay for our transit fare. Without a doubt, the smorgasbord of fare types can be overwhelming for even the most seasoned transit rider: we have antiques known as tokens; magnetic striped Metropasses and weekly passes that can only start on the first of a month or a Monday; scratch-and-ride day passes; and of course, the all-too-confusing-on-when-and-where-you-can-actually-use-them paper transfers. Not to mention that, come September, all post-secondary students will join high schoolers in needing TTC-produced photo identification to buy and use a discounted student Metropass. Worldly travellers to locales like Hong Kong and London all return to Toronto after using Octopus and Oyster cards and cringe while reaching into possibly-bacteria-ridden token dispensers at their local subway station, all asking, "Why are we so behind?" more ›