By David Topping

We publish a lot of articles here on Torontoist, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Populist is a weekly recap, appearing every Sunday night, that features some of the coolest, most interesting, most commented, and most recommended posts from our past week.

This past week, Torontoist featured cheap weddings, a rather testy Danforth, a ban on panhandling, and murder most foul. Here are a selection of some of our posts from August 13 through August 18.

• Carly Beath provided advice for how to get married on the cheap. That way, you can save the money you’ll need to buy your friends’ wedding presents.
• Beth Bohnert checked out housing123.com, a site that actually helps real estate buyers find a place in an area they want to live. Weird! [This week's most recommended post.]
• You heard it here on Torontoist first: the Toronto Public Space Committee totally killed a girl. Jonathan Goldsbie and Miles Storey have eye-witness accounts and photographs. It’ll be okay, though, ’cause the cops caught it all on camera.
• David J. Widmann continued his Walk and Discover column with the waterfront, aided this time by an audio tour (which was really quite good).
• Ken Hunt and Patrick Metzger fought it out in this week’s Torontoist vs. Torontoist on banning panhandling. [This week's most commented post.]
• David Topping suggested some potential theme songs for Stephen Harper’s campaign after the conservatives started accumulating unintentionally-ironic suggestions for Dalton McGuinty.
• Val Dodge is not a big fan of Taste of the Danforth.
• Amanda Buckiewicz and Carrie Musgrave checked out Warped Tour. It only mostly sucked!
• Jamie Bradburn discovered a vintage C.N.E. ad from seventy years ago, featuring “recreation, education, [and] thrills for everyone!” Golly!
• Kevin McBride checked out a temporary Portrait Gallery of Canada––in a former Torontoist editor’s garage.
• Karen Whaley wrote a crazy-extensive preview of this past weekend’s Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
• Mathew Katz was busy politicking this week, covering the expansion of Kipling subway station and kicking off Policy Sunday as the next election starts to slowly gather some steam.
• Robin Rix suggests one possible change for our bike lanes: colours! Glorious colours!

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