If you had to name an early winner following the announcement of the 2012 JUNO Award nominees, it would have to be William Shatner. The Montreal native, best known to those under 25 as “the Priceline guy,” received the biggest pop when he was announced as the host for the 43rd edition of the awards. [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Detail from one of Jim Hake’s Backfire pieces. Photo courtesy of Headbones Gallery [...]

In April 2007, “Premier McGuinty and Ontario police chiefs announce tough new measures to combat drunk driving and street racing.” Courtesy of the Office of the Premier. We become unreasonably annoyed when bands release self-titled (non-debut) albums. With the obvious exception of Beatles-biting Weezer-style colour-coding, this approach strikes us as lazy and uncreative—at best, a [...]

When we ran our Sprockets preview last week, we tried to give the piece a theme, and we couldn’t stick to it. In all honesty, we probably overstretched ourselves in trying to give a post on a children’s film festival a theme any grander than “children’s films,” and when you get down to it, why [...]

So far on Torontoist we have mentioned Torontonian heavy metal band Anvil precisely this number of times: zero. Now, we’re sure we were going to get around to mentioning them one of these days, but to be honest, we didn’t expect we’d be referring to them when talking about Hot Docs, which announced its complete [...]