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There's also a certain pride that many TTC riders have; a camaraderie rooted in the shared experience of Riding The Rocket -- which is why we're distraught at the...","date":"October 02, 2006  5:00 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":151,"title":"Our TTC Swag Suggestions","id":68115,"votes":70}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/08/interview_lukas.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_patrickm","displaydate":"Aug 02, 2006","excerpt":" Can a hard-rocking cat from Toronto’s seamy west end win over American TV audiences, impress three of the most jaded rock stars on the planet, and still keep his artistic integrity? Well, Lukas Rossi, Toronto’s contribution to CBS' “Rock Star: Supernova” reckons that he can. For readers not fully acquainted with the CBS rock'n'roll oeuvre, “Rock Star:Supernova” is the followup to last years’ hugely successful “Rock Star: INXS”. This time the band auditioning for...","date":"August 02, 2006  08:15 AM","author":"Patrick Metzger","comments":150,"title":"Tall Poppy Interview: Lukas Rossi, Rock Star:Supernova","id":61161,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/the_sun.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jan 20, 2008","excerpt":" Hey! Torontoist just got ripped off by The Sun. From our article on Posterchild's subway pamphlets, published online here on Friday, January 18:Posterchild––street artist extraordinaire and our new curator for Vandalist––has taken it on himself to fill the empty hooks of the TTC's subways, streetcars, and buses with new and improved information flyers. For the past week, he's posted details of one flyer a day to his blog: Monday was a subway and streetcar...","date":"January 20, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":125,"title":"<em>The Sun</em> Plagiarizes Torontoist","id":143190,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/11/the_torontoist_3.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Nov 27, 2006","excerpt":" Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes remaking other people's songs brings a whole new level of originality. New performers are well-advised to have a signature cover tune to help attract fans familiar with the original, and artists like Tori Amos and Barenaked Ladies have made cover songs a staple of their shows. The Beatles, Dylan and The Rolling Stones are among the most-covered artists, and there are more than 3,000...","date":"November 27, 2006  08:00 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":117,"title":"The Torontoist Cover Song Catalogue","id":83788,"votes":28}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/06/save_our_sams.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jun 14, 2007","excerpt":" Photo by Eyeline-Imagery in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. In less than two weeks, all of Sam the Record Man's contents are going up for sale at auction. Yesterday, we confirmed with Benaco Sales Ltd., the auctioneers for the property, that the most coveted and contentious part of the building—its entire front fa&#231;ade, including the iconic \"THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT\" records and \"SAM\" logos (minus the red backdrop, which is unmovable)—would indeed be part of the sale....","date":"June 14, 2007  2:15 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":111,"title":"SOS—Save Our Sam's","id":111197,"votes":11}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/04/ttc_on_strike_a.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Apr 27, 2008","excerpt":"Torontoist is following the TTC's strike, using our own reporting, other local news sources, and any other resources available to us to keep this article updated continually with the latest information. Use the TTC Strike tag to view Torontoist's other strike coverage, or view our list of online resources to see coverage, photos, videos, and ideas elsewhere. Russell (Connaught) Carhouse, Sunday, 12 p.m. Photo by somebody_ from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Current Status: Strike Over...","date":"April 27, 2008  8:21 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":111,"title":"TTC Strike Status: Strike Ends Sunday Night","id":158778,"votes":18}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_to_close_december_31_2008.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 12, 2008","excerpt":" In Torontoist's first article, on October 26, 2004, co-founder Sarah Lazarovic promised to readers that \"Never again will you blindly wonder what's going on in the city....Torontoist will provide you with everything you've ever needed, 416-wise.\" Populated by a \"collective of persons, all wryly knowledgeable in the arenas they will be posting on,\" Torontoist would, even if its contributors didn't always collectively agree, be using the collective voice—the editorial we—that characterized the other city...","date":"December 12, 2008  11:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":109,"title":"New Year's Resolutions","id":196609,"votes":40}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/terroni_abhors_your_unsophisticated_palate.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Aug 11, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by jeff caires from the Torontoist Flickr Pool High-end pizza joint Terroni needs to get over itself. With three locations in Toronto and one in Los Angeles, the owners mean to bring a taste of the southern Italian old country to the West, but one element that is hardly Calabrese-like is the excruciatingly tedious attitude. As reported in the September issue of Toronto Life, simply asking for some cheese on a fish pasta...","date":"August 11, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":93,"title":"Terroni Abhors Your Unsophisticated Palate","id":176044,"votes":34}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/massive_fire_hi.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Transit vehicles are being diverted and streets have been closed near Queen and Bathurst as firefighters battle a six-alarm blaze this morning. The fire broke out about 5 a.m. and spread through eight low-rise buildings on the south side of Queen, consisting of fourteen addresses between Bathurst and Portland. The destroyed block contained commercial properties Suspect Video, Duke's Cycle, National Sound, Preloved, the Jupiter head shop,...","date":"February 20, 2008  08:08 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":92,"title":"Massive Fire Guts Queen West Block","id":148119,"votes":31}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/fashionista_ale.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"Jan 04, 2008","excerpt":" Attention Wintourites, Olsen fan club members, and other fabulously fur-clad denizens of our fair city: It's January. It's freaking cold. Yes, the Weather Network says it's going to be unseasonably warm any day now, but we'll believe that when we stop seeing our breath—indoors. So, when you arise to minus-whatever temperatures tomorrow, bundle up in those pelts. Put on your fuzzy bunny muffs, your silver fox stoles, your Muscovite mink hats. Chinchilla-cape your cold...","date":"January 04, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":87,"title":"Fashionista Alert: Anti-Fur Protest in Yorkville","id":140803,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2005/12/stripping_101a.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_josh","displaydate":"Dec 09, 2005","excerpt":"The University of Western Ontario has many a tradition, including renowned parties and the scholastic birthplace of Lester B. Pearson. As of last month, though, add another notch in the long-standing traditions, as a group of UWO students are making waves with a student-only strip show in residence. The news comes courtesy of Torontoist's Paige, who tells us of an incident involving a room full of cargo-pant wearing Western dudes and a knee-high boot wearing...","date":"December 09, 2005  1:14 PM","author":"Joshua Errett","comments":86,"title":"Stripping 101a: Introduction to Vagina in Face Maneuver","id":26898,"votes":3}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/11/thorarinn_ingi.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Nov 29, 2007","excerpt":" Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson has, as he put it to Torontoist in a phone interview earlier today, \"seen better days.\" The Integrated Media OCAD student and his final project for his advanced video class are the direct cause––intended or not––for yesterday's bomb scare at the Royal Ontario Museum, and, a day later, Jonsson is now suspended from OCAD and is wanted for questioning by police. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's readymades pieces (the most famous of...","date":"November 29, 2007  8:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":86,"title":"Ceci N'est Pas Une Bombe","id":135462,"votes":48}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/11/things_just_got_weird_on_parliament.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Jerad Gallinger","displaydate":"Nov 28, 2008","excerpt":" It was barely a month ago that the Harper Conservatives were returned to government with a strengthened minority and politicians of all stripes were pledging to work together to steer Canada through the global financial storm. But after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered an economic update yesterday that promised to end pay-equity programs, suspend federal employees' right to strike, and eliminate the subsidy for political parties (a move that would financially cripple the Liberals,...","date":"November 28, 2008  12:20 AM","author":"Jerad Gallinger","comments":86,"title":"Things Just Got Weird on Parliament Hill","id":195281,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/07/the_ontario_gov_1.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jul 22, 2007","excerpt":"The Star reports this morning about U of T political science student Evon Reid (pictured). Reid applied for a job at Queen's Park as a media analyst earlier this month and was waiting to hear back when an e-mail from Aileen Siu, a part-time contract employee (whose contract is probably about to end prematurely), landed in his inbox on Friday morning. Siu's e-mail simply read: \"This is the ghetto dude that I spoke to before.\"...","date":"July 22, 2007  12:15 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":83,"title":"Queen's Park Media Analysts Are So Ghetto","id":116608,"votes":16}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/01/help_toronto_bl.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jan 03, 2007","excerpt":" Adam Giambrone is about to make some new friends...internet friends! Reading Toronto's Robert Ouellette recently got in touch with the TTC's new chief about the horrid shape of the TTC's website (as Ouellette put it, \"the single worst information site found anywhere [and] a true embarrassment\") and asked the G-man if he'd be interested in listening to Toronto bloggers' input on how to improve it. We and our readers are, after all, relatively tech-savvy...","date":"January 03, 2007  3:07 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":80,"title":"Help Make the TTC's Website The Better Way","id":88475,"votes":10}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/09/hitting_rock_bottom.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Sep 08, 2008","excerpt":" Good advertising is meant to stop you in your tracks, but a new ad campaign for local radio station CFRB might leave you frozen in disbelief. This month, CFRB contracted ad agency zig to create a witty series of guerilla-style street ads (read: illegal) meant to highlight polarizing issues of urban life. \"Is advertising out of control?\" reads a CFRB flyer wheatpasted on a Queen West utility pole. A sign asking \"Should cyclists have...","date":"September 08, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":80,"title":"Hitting Rock Bottom","id":180900,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/01/when_motorists.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_josh","displaydate":"Jan 27, 2006","excerpt":" Disturbing news from CityNoise, where a motorist and a bike courier got into a heated exchange and physical altercation in the Market. The story, as it is known to Torontoist, goes like this: ...the driver threw a bunch of garbage out the window, the courier picked it up and threw it back in. He got out and threw coffee on her, she keyed the car. He proceeds to stomp on her bike and then...","date":"January 27, 2006  2:34 PM","author":"Joshua Errett","comments":72,"title":"When Motorists Attack: Road Rage in the Market","id":27051,"votes":1}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/rob_ford_bold_v.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_christopherb","displaydate":"Feb 28, 2008","excerpt":" City councillor Rob Ford has at times been accused of making a career out of saying tremendously stupid things, but we here at Torontoist fully back his latest proposal to automatically name all new streets in Toronto after dead soldiers, even if the dead soldiers aren't from Toronto. If anything, we think Rob Ford doesn't go far enough. Sure, families of Canadian soldiers killed in action receive an immediate $250,000 death benefit plus an...","date":"February 28, 2008  10:00 AM","author":"Christopher Bird","comments":72,"title":"Rob Ford, Bold Visionary For Canadian Heroes","id":149373,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2005/11/ken_white_the_f.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_josh","displaydate":"Nov 01, 2005","excerpt":"A former editor at the National Post once made the argument that society should stop funding public libraries because it impedes the retail sale of books. Some years later, that right-of-right attitude has trickled down to the Post's impressionable little sister, Dose. For their recent publicity event, Dose sponsored promoters to spray-paint the word \"TABLOID\" all over the city, including on the side of public libraries! Small business owners were also vandalized, as well as...","date":"November 01, 2005  10:07 AM","author":"Joshua Errett","comments":71,"title":"Dose Behind Spray-Paint Scandal","id":26706,"votes":0}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/11/american_apparel_now_hiring.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"Nov 06, 2008","excerpt":" The sign of the hipster apocalypse is spelled out in Helvetica. Black and white. \"Now Hiring.\" Yes. American Apparel is \"Now Hiring.\" If this means nothing to you, you're either far behind or just ahead. Because it means that, soon enough, American Apparel will mean nothing at all....","date":"November 06, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":71,"title":"American Apparel: Now Hiring","id":191445,"votes":7}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/05/making_history.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_christ","displaydate":"May 21, 2007","excerpt":"By now you've surely had a chance to read the complete, final report of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, right? No? Ok, but you're at least familiar with what changes they've suggested we make to our provincial voting system, yes? Or, maybe you have no idea what any of this is about? Ok, let's start there. Because last Tuesday, Toronto witnessed the end of one process and the beginning of another that could make...","date":"May 21, 2007  12:22 AM","author":"Chris Tindal","comments":69,"title":"Making History in Ontario","id":107477,"votes":12}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/01/toivos_hope_for.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_sharonh","displaydate":"Jan 09, 2007","excerpt":" Toronto graffiti artist Toivo (Finnish for \"hope\") has painted an eponymous rainbow around town for the past two years. Her optimistic messages span the downtown, but are most easily located on cement tree planters in The Annex and Little Italy. You’ll also find them in the quietest of laneways. Please excuse Torontoist for not obtaining or publishing the artist’s biographical details, as her chosen medium of expression is currently punishable by law. The following...","date":"January 09, 2007  1:00 PM","author":"Sharon Harris","comments":68,"title":"Toivo's \"hope.\" for Toronto","id":89181,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/05/flying_low_pric.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_christ","displaydate":"May 29, 2007","excerpt":"Reader Jonathan recently let us know about a trip he took to Ottawa and back via (cue dramatic music) Porter Airlines. That's right, the airline of the infamous island airport. It's no secret that we have been less than enthusiastic about airport expansion, of which Porter Air's operation has become the most prominent example. That being said, it's worth noting that Jonathan's review could not have been more glowing: Wow! Flying is amazing! I think...","date":"May 29, 2007  12:40 AM","author":"Chris Tindal","comments":68,"title":"Flying: Low Price, High Cost","id":108932,"votes":10}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/08/bon_cop_bad_cop.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Aug 22, 2007","excerpt":" Earlier this evening, The Star reported on what might somehow rank as one of the strangest videos on YouTube. Recorded on Monday afternoon at the protests in Montebello, the video shows the tail end of a confrontation between Dave Coles (president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada) and three masked men who seem hell-bent on rilling up him, his fellow protestors (\"old guys, grandmothers, grandfathers\"), and the line of riot-ready police....","date":"August 22, 2007  02:00 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":63,"title":"Bon Cop, Bad Cop","id":120897,"votes":16}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/11/rightwingers_us.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_jonathang","displaydate":"Nov 08, 2007","excerpt":" TTC EMPLOYEES WANTED PAY: 26.58/hr JOB REQUIREMENTS: &#8226 Able to be rude and unhelpful &#8226 Must be constantly late &#8226 Willing to waste tax payer moneyTTC service, union wages, and graffiti. If this post gets fewer than thirty comments, we'll be very sad. Thanks to Corinne Alstrom for the tip! And thanks to the people who helped decipher the hard-to-read middle bullet point. Photo taken by Jonathan Goldsbie, at the southwest street-level entrance to...","date":"November 08, 2007  11:00 AM","author":"Jonathan Goldsbie","comments":63,"title":"Right-Wingers Using Traditionally Left-Wing Tactics To Make Their Point.  Cute.","id":132428,"votes":5}, ];
var ever_fav_entries=[{"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/10/our_ttc_swag_su.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Oct 02, 2006","excerpt":"Let's start of by saying how much we love the TTC. Sure, it's expensive and plagued with corporate infighting, but it gets us where we want to go (for the most part) and there's a soothing comfort in the gentle rumble of our slick red streetcars. There's also a certain pride that many TTC riders have; a camaraderie rooted in the shared experience of Riding The Rocket -- which is why we're distraught at the...","date":"October 02, 2006  5:00 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":151,"title":"Our TTC Swag Suggestions","id":68115,"votes":70}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/07/torontoist_news.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jul 08, 2006","excerpt":" Torontoist is looking to expand its pool of talented contributors beginning immediately, and we have our sights on you. Here's what we're looking for: You love living in - and know a lot about - Toronto.You can contribute something to Torontoist that we don't already have here, whether it's your writing style, interests, outspokeness, point-of-view, location, jealousy-inducing talent, or anything else.You like being independent, and not having to worry about an editor breathing down...","date":"July 08, 2006  10:15 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":0,"title":"Torontoist News: We're Hiring!","id":40748,"votes":61}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/11/thorarinn_ingi.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Nov 29, 2007","excerpt":" Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson has, as he put it to Torontoist in a phone interview earlier today, \"seen better days.\" The Integrated Media OCAD student and his final project for his advanced video class are the direct cause––intended or not––for yesterday's bomb scare at the Royal Ontario Museum, and, a day later, Jonsson is now suspended from OCAD and is wanted for questioning by police. Inspired by Marcel Duchamp's readymades pieces (the most famous of...","date":"November 29, 2007  8:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":86,"title":"Ceci N'est Pas Une Bombe","id":135462,"votes":48}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/09/the_car_sharing.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Sep 07, 2006","excerpt":" No, it's not carpooling. Yes, it can work for TTC users. And don't even mention the word \"rental.\" Car sharing comes with its fair share of misconceptions, and the recent entry of U.S.-based Zipcar into the Toronto market creates further confusion. Once the sole domain of AutoShare, which was established in 1998, both companies offer similar services but with some key differences. Though car sharing has been successfully implemented in Europe for years, it's...","date":"September 07, 2006  1:43 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":28,"title":"The Car Sharing Shootout: Autoshare vs. Zipcar","id":65197,"votes":43}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/the_great_torontoist_pun_hunt_begins.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Aug 28, 2008","excerpt":" Back in June, Best Week Ever—maybe the most entertaining blog on the internet—posted a list of their fifty favourite pun stores. With names like \"William the Concreter,\" \"Award Wieners,\" \"Sofa So Good,\" and \"En Thai Sing,\" we were basically in pun heaven. But we can't let the American and British stores have all the fun. So Torontoist is currently in the midst of a pun hunt of our own, looking for (and photographing, naturally)...","date":"August 28, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":0,"title":"The Great Torontoist Pun Hunt Needs Your Help","id":179112,"votes":43}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_isnt_dead_long_live_torontoist.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 23, 2008","excerpt":" Torontoist will be there to see the new year after all. After announcing that the site would close at the end of this month, we received a totally unprecedented amount of encouragement from our readers and attention from lots and lots of media outlets here and elsewhere (and had an imitator or two to boot). The consensus—an encouraging one—has been that Torontoist can't and shouldn't end like this. I decided to leave Torontoist only...","date":"December 23, 2008  12:15 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":58,"title":"New Year's Evolutions","id":199144,"votes":41}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_to_close_december_31_2008.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 12, 2008","excerpt":" In Torontoist's first article, on October 26, 2004, co-founder Sarah Lazarovic promised to readers that \"Never again will you blindly wonder what's going on in the city....Torontoist will provide you with everything you've ever needed, 416-wise.\" Populated by a \"collective of persons, all wryly knowledgeable in the arenas they will be posting on,\" Torontoist would, even if its contributors didn't always collectively agree, be using the collective voice—the editorial we—that characterized the other city...","date":"December 12, 2008  11:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":109,"title":"New Year's Resolutions","id":196609,"votes":40}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/the_urbanaut.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jun 11, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"June 11, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":17,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":164682,"votes":39}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/12/fog_in_toronto_1.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 04, 2006","excerpt":" Torontoist reader Gareth saw our post last week featuring a photograph, shot from the CN Tower, of fog blanketing the downtown core. Two days later, he found himself on a plane to Vancouver \"in the wee hours of the morning,\" and snapped this equally breathtaking photo of the city below him. Click on the photo to see it bigger. We can hardly believe our eyes. \"It looks like the CN Tower is drawn in,\"...","date":"December 04, 2006  12:58 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":17,"title":"Fog In Toronto (Again)","id":84955,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/the_sun.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jan 20, 2008","excerpt":" Hey! Torontoist just got ripped off by The Sun. From our article on Posterchild's subway pamphlets, published online here on Friday, January 18:Posterchild––street artist extraordinaire and our new curator for Vandalist––has taken it on himself to fill the empty hooks of the TTC's subways, streetcars, and buses with new and improved information flyers. For the past week, he's posted details of one flyer a day to his blog: Monday was a subway and streetcar...","date":"January 20, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":125,"title":"<em>The Sun</em> Plagiarizes Torontoist","id":143190,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_urbanaut_4.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jul 09, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"July 09, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":2,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":170509,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/scientology_pro.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Todd Aalgaard","displaydate":"Feb 10, 2008","excerpt":" If you passed the Church of Scientology’s Toronto chapter at Yonge & St. Mary on Sunday, you may have momentarily entertained a dark fantasy that Tom Cruise would emerge from the masked masses amid gales of manic laughter, igniting the dissenting throng with bolts of righteous lightning. Sadly, no such fun. Rumour has it that Mr. Cruise was under lockdown during Anonymous’ global day of action against L. Ron Hubbard’s brainchild. As the Toronto...","date":"February 10, 2008  8:30 PM","author":"Todd Aalgaard","comments":38,"title":"Scientology's Legion of Doom","id":146590,"votes":35}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/terroni_abhors_your_unsophisticated_palate.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Aug 11, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by jeff caires from the Torontoist Flickr Pool High-end pizza joint Terroni needs to get over itself. With three locations in Toronto and one in Los Angeles, the owners mean to bring a taste of the southern Italian old country to the West, but one element that is hardly Calabrese-like is the excruciatingly tedious attitude. As reported in the September issue of Toronto Life, simply asking for some cheese on a fish pasta...","date":"August 11, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":93,"title":"Terroni Abhors Your Unsophisticated Palate","id":176044,"votes":34}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/09/tiff_2006_previ_10.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_mathew","displaydate":"Sep 07, 2006","excerpt":"We said in an earlier review that we always stay to the end of the credits of a film that we’ve enjoyed; King and the Clown is the kind of film that this rule was made for. The biggest box office smash in Korean cinematic history (well, until The Host came along) King and the Clown is the story of a pair of travelling performers, the headstrong Jang-seng (Karm Woo-sung) and the feminine Gong-gil (Lee...","date":"September 07, 2006  11:14 AM","author":"Mathew Kumar","comments":1,"title":"TIFF 2006 Preview: Discovery: King and the Clown","id":65164,"votes":33}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/02/tall_poppy_inte_47.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 26, 2007","excerpt":" It wasn't just any sweater, but \"the worn, warm sweater belonging to A Boy\" with that goat-like smell which all teenage boys possess. In 1991, \"The Sweater\" propelled singer-songwriter Meryn Cadell into the music history books, landing on the Top 40 charts and illuminating the request lines at Z-100 in New York. The album angel food for thought soon became an indie smash for a woman who used to perform with an aluminum heating...","date":"February 26, 2007  11:00 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":6,"title":"Tall Poppy Interview: Meryn Cadell","id":95568,"votes":33}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_urbanaut_3.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jul 02, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"July 02, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":3,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":169501,"votes":33}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/history_lost.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Today's blaze was not only devastating to the residents of Queen Street West who now find themselves homeless, but also to the business owners who served the community. Duke's Cycle—second home to many of the city's bicycle couriers—has been run by the same family in the same location since 1914. The owners of National Sound, which operated in the area for forty years and at that location since 1988, don't have fire insurance. Clothing...","date":"February 20, 2008  10:45 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":6,"title":"History Lost","id":148265,"votes":32}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/massive_fire_hi.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Transit vehicles are being diverted and streets have been closed near Queen and Bathurst as firefighters battle a six-alarm blaze this morning. The fire broke out about 5 a.m. and spread through eight low-rise buildings on the south side of Queen, consisting of fourteen addresses between Bathurst and Portland. The destroyed block contained commercial properties Suspect Video, Duke's Cycle, National Sound, Preloved, the Jupiter head shop,...","date":"February 20, 2008  08:08 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":92,"title":"Massive Fire Guts Queen West Block","id":148119,"votes":31}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/08/habitat_for_tyl.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_markm","displaydate":"Aug 02, 2006","excerpt":"Artist, Santa Cruz organizer, co-founder of Three Gut Records, Eye Weekly art director and woman-about-town Tyler Clark Burke launches her newest – and most ambitious – project today: The Few Bricks Short A House Project. Tyler wants to buy a house, and has enlisted some of her friends to help her do it. Starting today, you can bid on a variety of items or services donated by Toronto artists, photographers, musicians, and writers - as...","date":"August 02, 2006  4:00 PM","author":"Mark Medley","comments":39,"title":"Habitat for Tyler","id":61027,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/08/interview_lukas.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_patrickm","displaydate":"Aug 02, 2006","excerpt":" Can a hard-rocking cat from Toronto’s seamy west end win over American TV audiences, impress three of the most jaded rock stars on the planet, and still keep his artistic integrity? Well, Lukas Rossi, Toronto’s contribution to CBS' “Rock Star: Supernova” reckons that he can. For readers not fully acquainted with the CBS rock'n'roll oeuvre, “Rock Star:Supernova” is the followup to last years’ hugely successful “Rock Star: INXS”. This time the band auditioning for...","date":"August 02, 2006  08:15 AM","author":"Patrick Metzger","comments":150,"title":"Tall Poppy Interview: Lukas Rossi, Rock Star:Supernova","id":61161,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/10/hiphop_artist_a.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_cal","displaydate":"Oct 10, 2006","excerpt":"Canadian rapper k-os has questionably hinted at a racist agenda at NOW Magazine after receiving a mediocre review. This week, NOW published a review of the new k-os album, \"Atlantis: Hymns For Disco.\" Writer Jason Richards commented that the abundance of mainstream guests- including Sam Roberts and Buck 65 - \"will only strengthen [k-os's] detractors' case that he's a crossover pop artist disguised as a true-school b-boy.\" Even so, Richards gave the album three N's...","date":"October 10, 2006  09:00 AM","author":"Cal MacLean","comments":61,"title":"k-os Alleges Racism Over Album Review","id":77914,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2007/02/these_are_the_p.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_roxanneb","displaydate":"Feb 08, 2007","excerpt":"...","date":"February 08, 2007  6:00 PM","author":"Roxanne Bielskis","comments":18,"title":"These Are The People In Your Neighbourhood","id":93608,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/the_urbanaut_1.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jun 18, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"June 18, 2008  5:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":3,"title":"The Urbanaut ","id":167047,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/11/heres_what_we_n.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Nov 29, 2006","excerpt":"...","date":"November 29, 2006  08:00 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":0,"title":"Become a Torontoist Contributor","id":83171,"votes":29}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2006/11/the_torontoist_3.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Nov 27, 2006","excerpt":" Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes remaking other people's songs brings a whole new level of originality. New performers are well-advised to have a signature cover tune to help attract fans familiar with the original, and artists like Tori Amos and Barenaked Ladies have made cover songs a staple of their shows. The Beatles, Dylan and The Rolling Stones are among the most-covered artists, and there are more than 3,000...","date":"November 27, 2006  08:00 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":117,"title":"The Torontoist Cover Song Catalogue","id":83788,"votes":28}, ];
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For the past week, he's posted details of one flyer a day to his blog: Monday was a subway and streetcar...","date":"January 20, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":125,"title":"<em>The Sun</em> Plagiarizes Torontoist","id":143190,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/04/ttc_on_strike_a.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Apr 27, 2008","excerpt":"Torontoist is following the TTC's strike, using our own reporting, other local news sources, and any other resources available to us to keep this article updated continually with the latest information. Use the TTC Strike tag to view Torontoist's other strike coverage, or view our list of online resources to see coverage, photos, videos, and ideas elsewhere. Russell (Connaught) Carhouse, Sunday, 12 p.m. Photo by somebody_ from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Current Status: Strike Over...","date":"April 27, 2008  8:21 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":111,"title":"TTC Strike Status: Strike Ends Sunday Night","id":158778,"votes":18}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_to_close_december_31_2008.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 12, 2008","excerpt":" In Torontoist's first article, on October 26, 2004, co-founder Sarah Lazarovic promised to readers that \"Never again will you blindly wonder what's going on in the city....Torontoist will provide you with everything you've ever needed, 416-wise.\" Populated by a \"collective of persons, all wryly knowledgeable in the arenas they will be posting on,\" Torontoist would, even if its contributors didn't always collectively agree, be using the collective voice—the editorial we—that characterized the other city...","date":"December 12, 2008  11:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":109,"title":"New Year's Resolutions","id":196609,"votes":40}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/terroni_abhors_your_unsophisticated_palate.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Aug 11, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by jeff caires from the Torontoist Flickr Pool High-end pizza joint Terroni needs to get over itself. With three locations in Toronto and one in Los Angeles, the owners mean to bring a taste of the southern Italian old country to the West, but one element that is hardly Calabrese-like is the excruciatingly tedious attitude. As reported in the September issue of Toronto Life, simply asking for some cheese on a fish pasta...","date":"August 11, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":93,"title":"Terroni Abhors Your Unsophisticated Palate","id":176044,"votes":34}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/massive_fire_hi.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Transit vehicles are being diverted and streets have been closed near Queen and Bathurst as firefighters battle a six-alarm blaze this morning. The fire broke out about 5 a.m. and spread through eight low-rise buildings on the south side of Queen, consisting of fourteen addresses between Bathurst and Portland. The destroyed block contained commercial properties Suspect Video, Duke's Cycle, National Sound, Preloved, the Jupiter head shop,...","date":"February 20, 2008  08:08 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":92,"title":"Massive Fire Guts Queen West Block","id":148119,"votes":31}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/fashionista_ale.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"Jan 04, 2008","excerpt":" Attention Wintourites, Olsen fan club members, and other fabulously fur-clad denizens of our fair city: It's January. It's freaking cold. Yes, the Weather Network says it's going to be unseasonably warm any day now, but we'll believe that when we stop seeing our breath—indoors. So, when you arise to minus-whatever temperatures tomorrow, bundle up in those pelts. Put on your fuzzy bunny muffs, your silver fox stoles, your Muscovite mink hats. Chinchilla-cape your cold...","date":"January 04, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":87,"title":"Fashionista Alert: Anti-Fur Protest in Yorkville","id":140803,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/11/things_just_got_weird_on_parliament.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Jerad Gallinger","displaydate":"Nov 28, 2008","excerpt":" It was barely a month ago that the Harper Conservatives were returned to government with a strengthened minority and politicians of all stripes were pledging to work together to steer Canada through the global financial storm. But after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered an economic update yesterday that promised to end pay-equity programs, suspend federal employees' right to strike, and eliminate the subsidy for political parties (a move that would financially cripple the Liberals,...","date":"November 28, 2008  12:20 AM","author":"Jerad Gallinger","comments":86,"title":"Things Just Got Weird on Parliament Hill","id":195281,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/09/hitting_rock_bottom.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Sep 08, 2008","excerpt":" Good advertising is meant to stop you in your tracks, but a new ad campaign for local radio station CFRB might leave you frozen in disbelief. This month, CFRB contracted ad agency zig to create a witty series of guerilla-style street ads (read: illegal) meant to highlight polarizing issues of urban life. \"Is advertising out of control?\" reads a CFRB flyer wheatpasted on a Queen West utility pole. A sign asking \"Should cyclists have...","date":"September 08, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":80,"title":"Hitting Rock Bottom","id":180900,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/rob_ford_bold_v.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_christopherb","displaydate":"Feb 28, 2008","excerpt":" City councillor Rob Ford has at times been accused of making a career out of saying tremendously stupid things, but we here at Torontoist fully back his latest proposal to automatically name all new streets in Toronto after dead soldiers, even if the dead soldiers aren't from Toronto. If anything, we think Rob Ford doesn't go far enough. Sure, families of Canadian soldiers killed in action receive an immediate $250,000 death benefit plus an...","date":"February 28, 2008  10:00 AM","author":"Christopher Bird","comments":72,"title":"Rob Ford, Bold Visionary For Canadian Heroes","id":149373,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/11/american_apparel_now_hiring.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"Nov 06, 2008","excerpt":" The sign of the hipster apocalypse is spelled out in Helvetica. Black and white. \"Now Hiring.\" Yes. American Apparel is \"Now Hiring.\" If this means nothing to you, you're either far behind or just ahead. Because it means that, soon enough, American Apparel will mean nothing at all....","date":"November 06, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":71,"title":"American Apparel: Now Hiring","id":191445,"votes":7}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/05/critical_mass_takes_over_the_gardiner.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"May 30, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by TObike from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's been a busy day for the Gardiner. First, Waterfront Toronto announced plans to dismantle a section of the expressway from Jarvis to the Don Valley Parkway, with David Miller formally scrapping the planned Front Street Extension. And then, late Friday afternoon, more than two hundred cyclists rolled up the Jarvis Street ramp to slowly and steadily (and illegally) take the entire westbound expressway over. The...","date":"May 30, 2008  11:45 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":63,"title":"\"Here We Are. Let's Take The Gardiner\"","id":164294,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/05/ago_new_logo.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"May 15, 2008","excerpt":" Torontoist presents an imagined inside look at the creative process behind the AGO's shiny new logo, above. Designer: Bruce Mau Client: Art Gallery of Ontario Due: May 15, 2008 Creative Brief: Design a \"distinctive new logo that will represent the Gallery well beyond its Fall 2008 opening.\" Logo should capture \"both the stability of the century-old institution and the forward-looking energy of the new Gallery.\" (If that proves too challenging, refer to graphic design...","date":"May 15, 2008  11:20 AM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":60,"title":"AGO Unveils \"Bold New Logo\"","id":161845,"votes":14}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/07/give_a_little_get_a_little.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jul 13, 2008","excerpt":"On Monday, Torontoist will begin a daily event listings column highlighting a small number of the swellest things going on in the city that day. (It's based on Gothamist's Pencil This In.) We can't wait! Only problem is that, after much brainstorming, we don't have a wicked name for it yet. So we could use your help—we're looking for a name that is short, smart, and straightforward, but that isn't just \"What's On\" or something...","date":"July 13, 2008  10:25 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":58,"title":"Give us a name, and we'll give you $10","id":171268,"votes":0}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_isnt_dead_long_live_torontoist.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 23, 2008","excerpt":" Torontoist will be there to see the new year after all. After announcing that the site would close at the end of this month, we received a totally unprecedented amount of encouragement from our readers and attention from lots and lots of media outlets here and elsewhere (and had an imitator or two to boot). The consensus—an encouraging one—has been that Torontoist can't and shouldn't end like this. I decided to leave Torontoist only...","date":"December 23, 2008  12:15 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":58,"title":"New Year's Evolutions","id":199144,"votes":41}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/05/any_club_that_w.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_johnnie","displaydate":"May 07, 2008","excerpt":" Is anyone else sick of those borderline-offensive Canadian Club ads they've been running in NOW lately? Based on the strange notion that thinking about your parents having sex will make you want to buy things, the whiskey's \"Damn Right\" campaign tries to create nostalgia for the fatherly masculinity of yesteryear. They use \"vintage\" photos and the grammatically invincible tagline \"DAMN RIGHT YOUR DAD DRANK IT\" as a rallying cry for some kind of boozy...","date":"May 07, 2008  4:00 PM","author":"Johnnie Walker","comments":56,"title":"\"Any Club That Wouldn't Have Me As A Member…\"","id":160428,"votes":12}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/things_that_are_only_tenuously_rela.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Aug 18, 2008","excerpt":"...","date":"August 18, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":54,"title":"Things That Are Only Tenuously Related, Starring the <em>Post</em>","id":177476,"votes":3}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/the_sun_apology.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jan 21, 2008","excerpt":"Last Friday, Torontoist published an article about Posterchild's latest project––fake subway fliers. On Sunday, the Sun published an article about the same topic, with a paragraph that was identical to a portion of Torontoist's article. The Sun today (Monday) issued this correction and apology: \"A story in the Sunday Sun about a local guerilla artist known as Posterchild contained a paragraph which was not attributed to torontoist.com. The Sun apologizes for the error.\" That apology...","date":"January 21, 2008  11:59 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":53,"title":"The <em>Sun</em> Apologizes to Torontoist","id":143309,"votes":19}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/rogue_lanes.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jun 23, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by Martin Reis. More are in his Guaranteed Bike Lane set. Sometimes the Internet isn't enough to protect Toronto's bike lanes from the drivers that treat the space between the thick white line and the curb as their territory. Last Thursday, members of Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists (ARC)—Rick Conroy (pictured at left; coordinator of the Toronto Cyclists Union), Derek Chadbourne (at right; owner of the Bike Joint, whose birthday the Gardiner ride...","date":"June 23, 2008  3:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":53,"title":"Rogue Lanes","id":167755,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/10/kavin_wong_shark_vs_bear_vs_man.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Oct 09, 2008","excerpt":" In the epic battle between shark, bear, and wankster, there can be be no winners. Last Friday night at Wrongbar, Kavin Wong—the photographer known best for his party shots on Shark Vs. Bear—had finished up taking photos for the night and hopped into the washroom. As he wrote in a particularly dramatic Facebook note, he found himself cornered there by \"half a dozen wanksters,\" one of whom was none too pleased about being photographed...","date":"October 09, 2008  11:40 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":53,"title":"The Most Dangerous Animal","id":186240,"votes":2}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/09/wal_of_noise.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Sep 19, 2008","excerpt":"In the current issue of Toronto Life, Philip Preville attempts to argue for a big-box store in Leslieville. It's no easy task, but Preville's argument is pretty sound, resting on convenience (it'd be close to where people live), location (what else is going to go in its place?), cost (cheap!), and—oh yes—the environment (less driving = less pollution). Preville also says about the smartest thing we've yet heard about the development, which is that \"instead...","date":"September 19, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":52,"title":"Wal Of Noise","id":182755,"votes":0}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/09/vegans_love_kfc.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Kasandra Bracken","displaydate":"Sep 11, 2008","excerpt":"We all know the Four Seasons is soo last year for weddings, but what's the number one place to say your wedding vows this year? Why, KFC of course—nothing says \"I love you\" like a hefty carton of deep-fried chicken. And the best part? They cater, too—even if you're vegan. KFC Canada has got one wing up on its competition—it's where vegan PETA member Alex Bury wed her fiancé Jack Norris earlier today inside of...","date":"September 11, 2008  5:15 PM","author":"Kasandra Bracken","comments":50,"title":"Vegans Love (at) KFC","id":181581,"votes":5}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/480_to_upass.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_jonathang","displaydate":"Jan 16, 2008","excerpt":" Left to right: TTC market research director Mike Anders, TTC Chair Adam Giambrone, irate civil engineering Engineering Science student Ryan Campbell, and Giambrone executive assistant Kevin Beaulieu. \"Isn't this just a quasi-communistic redistribution of wealth?\" asked a student at the microphone, receiving hearty applause from a good chunk of the audience. He was inquiring about the new U-Pass being proposed by the TTC, which Mayor David Miller, TTC Chair Adam Giambrone, and Vice-Chair Joe...","date":"January 16, 2008  2:30 PM","author":"Jonathan Goldsbie","comments":49,"title":"480 To U-Pass","id":142524,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/_photo_by_ace_o.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Maneesh Mohindra","displaydate":"Feb 05, 2008","excerpt":" When your own mother calls you \"foolish\" and \"an idiot,\" you know you're in serious trouble. However, if your name is Salman Hossain, it's likely that your mom's assessment of your intellectual abilities is the least of your concerns right now. According to a (relatively) recent National Post story, Hossain, a student at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, is currently under investigation by RCMP national security investigators. What could young Salman have done...","date":"February 05, 2008  11:30 AM","author":"Maneesh Mohindra","comments":48,"title":"Salman's Idiotic Verses","id":145667,"votes":2}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/03/a_first_look_at.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Mar 04, 2008","excerpt":" With Rogers' plan to move Citytv, OMNI Television, and the Fan 590 to the southeast corner of Dundas Square, those familiar with the current streetfront studios on Queen Street have wondered if the former Olympic Spirit building will be opened up in a similar way. Though merely an preliminary concept rendering, Rogers and Quadrangle Architects seem to have grand designs for the space, currently dubbed Rogers Television City, as evident in this image supplementing...","date":"March 04, 2008  09:30 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":47,"title":"A First Look At Rogers Television City","id":150042,"votes":14}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/i_get_on_the_ttc_randal_paul.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 05, 2008","excerpt":" UPDATE: DECEMBER 10, 2008 \"I Get On (The TTC)\" was deleted from and reuploaded to YouTube on Monday night. The updated video and reason for the change is here; see the comments section below for more information. The title of unofficial TTC anthem has gone uncontested for far too long. Sure, \"Spadina Bus\" was pretty great, but that was, like, the '80s, and the route that the Shuffle Demons canonized has long been replaced...","date":"December 05, 2008  09:00 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":47,"title":"\"The TTC Can Be a Drag; Other Times It's Super-Great.\"","id":196351,"votes":15}, ];
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So Torontoist is currently in the midst of a pun hunt of our own, looking for (and photographing, naturally)...","date":"August 28, 2008  1:30 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":0,"title":"The Great Torontoist Pun Hunt Needs Your Help","id":179112,"votes":43}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_isnt_dead_long_live_torontoist.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 23, 2008","excerpt":" Torontoist will be there to see the new year after all. After announcing that the site would close at the end of this month, we received a totally unprecedented amount of encouragement from our readers and attention from lots and lots of media outlets here and elsewhere (and had an imitator or two to boot). The consensus—an encouraging one—has been that Torontoist can't and shouldn't end like this. I decided to leave Torontoist only...","date":"December 23, 2008  12:15 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":58,"title":"New Year's Evolutions","id":199144,"votes":41}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/12/torontoist_to_close_december_31_2008.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Dec 12, 2008","excerpt":" In Torontoist's first article, on October 26, 2004, co-founder Sarah Lazarovic promised to readers that \"Never again will you blindly wonder what's going on in the city....Torontoist will provide you with everything you've ever needed, 416-wise.\" Populated by a \"collective of persons, all wryly knowledgeable in the arenas they will be posting on,\" Torontoist would, even if its contributors didn't always collectively agree, be using the collective voice—the editorial we—that characterized the other city...","date":"December 12, 2008  11:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":109,"title":"New Year's Resolutions","id":196609,"votes":40}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/the_urbanaut.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jun 11, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"June 11, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":17,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":164682,"votes":39}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/the_sun.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Jan 20, 2008","excerpt":" Hey! Torontoist just got ripped off by The Sun. From our article on Posterchild's subway pamphlets, published online here on Friday, January 18:Posterchild––street artist extraordinaire and our new curator for Vandalist––has taken it on himself to fill the empty hooks of the TTC's subways, streetcars, and buses with new and improved information flyers. For the past week, he's posted details of one flyer a day to his blog: Monday was a subway and streetcar...","date":"January 20, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":125,"title":"<em>The Sun</em> Plagiarizes Torontoist","id":143190,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_urbanaut_4.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jul 09, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"July 09, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":2,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":170509,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/scientology_pro.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Todd Aalgaard","displaydate":"Feb 10, 2008","excerpt":" If you passed the Church of Scientology’s Toronto chapter at Yonge & St. Mary on Sunday, you may have momentarily entertained a dark fantasy that Tom Cruise would emerge from the masked masses amid gales of manic laughter, igniting the dissenting throng with bolts of righteous lightning. Sadly, no such fun. Rumour has it that Mr. Cruise was under lockdown during Anonymous’ global day of action against L. Ron Hubbard’s brainchild. As the Toronto...","date":"February 10, 2008  8:30 PM","author":"Todd Aalgaard","comments":38,"title":"Scientology's Legion of Doom","id":146590,"votes":35}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/terroni_abhors_your_unsophisticated_palate.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Aug 11, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by jeff caires from the Torontoist Flickr Pool High-end pizza joint Terroni needs to get over itself. With three locations in Toronto and one in Los Angeles, the owners mean to bring a taste of the southern Italian old country to the West, but one element that is hardly Calabrese-like is the excruciatingly tedious attitude. As reported in the September issue of Toronto Life, simply asking for some cheese on a fish pasta...","date":"August 11, 2008  1:00 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":93,"title":"Terroni Abhors Your Unsophisticated Palate","id":176044,"votes":34}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_urbanaut_3.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jul 02, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"July 02, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":3,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":169501,"votes":33}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/history_lost.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Today's blaze was not only devastating to the residents of Queen Street West who now find themselves homeless, but also to the business owners who served the community. Duke's Cycle—second home to many of the city's bicycle couriers—has been run by the same family in the same location since 1914. The owners of National Sound, which operated in the area for forty years and at that location since 1988, don't have fire insurance. Clothing...","date":"February 20, 2008  10:45 PM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":6,"title":"History Lost","id":148265,"votes":32}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/massive_fire_hi.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Transit vehicles are being diverted and streets have been closed near Queen and Bathurst as firefighters battle a six-alarm blaze this morning. The fire broke out about 5 a.m. and spread through eight low-rise buildings on the south side of Queen, consisting of fourteen addresses between Bathurst and Portland. The destroyed block contained commercial properties Suspect Video, Duke's Cycle, National Sound, Preloved, the Jupiter head shop,...","date":"February 20, 2008  08:08 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":92,"title":"Massive Fire Guts Queen West Block","id":148119,"votes":31}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/the_urbanaut_1.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jun 18, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"June 18, 2008  5:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":3,"title":"The Urbanaut ","id":167047,"votes":30}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/obay.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"Feb 21, 2008","excerpt":" Since fake pharmaceutical ads for a drug called \"Obay\" starting appearing across Ontario (and elsewhere) last week, everyone from street artist Frank Shepard Fairey (aka OBEY) to Scientologists to comedian Maggie Cassella has been fingered as the culprit behind them. Last Friday, three days after the ads seem to have launched, we traced them, with no small amount of confidence, to a substantially less dramatic source––Colleges Ontario, an advocacy organization representing twenty-four colleges across...","date":"February 21, 2008  10:00 AM","author":"David Topping","comments":18,"title":"Obay Unveiled","id":147892,"votes":28}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/drink_responsibly.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Jun 28, 2008","excerpt":" Pride weekend is an event which fosters imbibing—both the \"spirited\" and non-alcoholic kind. When stopping into a store for some hydration after burning under a hot sun, Pridegoers need to watch what they drink for an important reason: they may not like where their money is going when it comes to two popular beverage companies—Rockstar and Bolthouse Farms....","date":"June 28, 2008  11:00 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":37,"title":"Watch What You Drink At Pride","id":168891,"votes":28}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/the_ones_that_m.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_jonathang","displaydate":"Feb 15, 2008","excerpt":" At first we assumed it was Scientology. After all, who else has the money to produce and purchase space for such glossy anti-pharmaceutical ads, which have been popping up all over transit shelters and buses in Ontario and Montreal? Google wasn't much help, and their Blog Search just pointed us to other people as perplexed as we were. And poor spellers with domination fantasies. Searches of domain registrations weren't particularly fruitful, especially after the...","date":"February 15, 2008  7:30 PM","author":"Jonathan Goldsbie","comments":31,"title":"The Ones That Mother Gives You","id":147579,"votes":27}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_travails_of_mr_stickman.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_vald","displaydate":"Jul 17, 2008","excerpt":"Mr. Stickman has the toughest job in Toronto: keeping you safe. In a day's work, he gets smushed, crushed, beheaded, befingered, mangled, strangled, thrown, blown, ground, and crowned. And unlike the relatively delicate spokesmodels who calmly remind you to mind the gap or not to trespass, Mr. Stickman is willing to give the extra effort and actually demonstrate the consequences of not following the rules. Wherever danger lurks, Mr. Stickman plies his educational trade. He...","date":"July 17, 2008  11:49 AM","author":"Val Dodge","comments":18,"title":"The Travails of Mr. Stickman","id":171694,"votes":27}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/missed_connecti.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"Jan 18, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by David Topping. Torontoist has a major crush on missed connections, and this one made our day: West Queen West, Drake/Beacs - m4w last weekend, at the drake. Or maybe it was the beaconsfield. You are very stylish, wearing an outfit from american apparel. it was colourful. i was skinny, wearing jeans and a t-shirt with my favourite band on it, with a vintage sweater over top. we talked for a bit, and...","date":"January 18, 2008  11:15 AM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":19,"title":"Making Your Connections","id":142912,"votes":26}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/phototo_queen_s.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_miless","displaydate":"Feb 20, 2008","excerpt":" Exclusive images from the massive fire on Queen Street. More shots after the jump....","date":"February 20, 2008  10:47 AM","author":"Miles Storey","comments":27,"title":"PhotoTO: Queen Street West Fire","id":148147,"votes":26}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/08/the_urbanaut_7.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Aug 06, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"August 06, 2008  7:50 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":0,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":175390,"votes":26}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/with_love_from.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Sarah Prickett","displaydate":"Feb 06, 2008","excerpt":"It's hard out there for a scenester these days. So many parties, so many DJs, so many Next Big Things... and so few brain cells to spare. We all know how important it is to like the right stuff, but between finding hot new ways to wear neon headgear (hint: there aren't any) and figuring out which prescription drugs don't mix, who has the mental energy to figure what exactly that stuff is? That's why...","date":"February 06, 2008  3:00 PM","author":"Sarah Nicole Prickett","comments":1,"title":"With Love from Vancouver, Felix Cartal","id":146006,"votes":25}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/02/was_that_a_hate.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Robin Rix","displaydate":"Feb 12, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by Joe Lee (London, via Londonist). A spokesperson for the Church of Scientology labelled Sunday's protest outside its office at Yonge & St Mary—part of a worldwide series of protests—a \"religious hate crime\" and said that the \"hate crimes of Anonymous should be condemned,\" as reported in Torontoist, CTV and the Toronto Sun, among others. That got us thinking. Accusing someone of a \"hate crime\" is pretty damning. Are the protestors guilty of...","date":"February 12, 2008  11:58 AM","author":"Robin Rix","comments":24,"title":"Was That a Hate Crime?","id":146858,"votes":25}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/miss_toronto_to.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_patrickm","displaydate":"Jan 27, 2008","excerpt":"Say, who's that dude with the pitchfork selecting the next queen of Toronto's tourism industry? Hmmm, could it be...SATAN?!!! It seems that a Toronto woman was invited to judge a local beauty pageant, only to have the invite retracted because some of her hobbies were deemed a little too demonistic. Stephanie Conover, an actor, singer, dancer, and current Miss Canada Plus 2007, was asked about three weeks ago if she would be interested in judging...","date":"January 27, 2008  3:30 PM","author":"Patrick Metzger","comments":41,"title":"Miss Toronto Tourism Not Welcoming Wiccans","id":144386,"votes":24}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/06/the_urbanaut_2.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Rey Ortega","displaydate":"Jun 25, 2008","excerpt":"Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto....","date":"June 25, 2008  6:00 PM","author":"Rey Ortega","comments":4,"title":"The Urbanaut","id":168318,"votes":24}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/01/to_the_old_lady.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_marcl","displaydate":"Jan 25, 2008","excerpt":" High-rise dwellers know the challenges of living in a densely stacked box with a bunch of strangers, and have undoubtedly experienced the alarming realization that one's neighbours often behave in mysterious ways. We've heard stories of elevator flatulence, human poop in stairwells, and discarded ironing boards jamming tiny garbage chutes. As reported by passiveaggressivenotes.com, one Toronto resident has had enough with the small talk, and posted this constructive rant in their apartment building's elevator....","date":"January 25, 2008  11:00 AM","author":"Marc Lostracco","comments":2,"title":"I Want The News, Not The Weather","id":143944,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://torontoist.com/2008/05/critical_mass_takes_over_the_gardiner.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#toronto_david","displaydate":"May 30, 2008","excerpt":" Photo by TObike from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's been a busy day for the Gardiner. First, Waterfront Toronto announced plans to dismantle a section of the expressway from Jarvis to the Don Valley Parkway, with David Miller formally scrapping the planned Front Street Extension. And then, late Friday afternoon, more than two hundred cyclists rolled up the Jarvis Street ramp to slowly and steadily (and illegally) take the entire westbound expressway over. The...","date":"May 30, 2008  11:45 PM","author":"David Topping","comments":63,"title":"\"Here We Are. Let's Take The Gardiner\"","id":164294,"votes":23}, ];