Everyone has a reference point for what a music festival should be like. In the minds of certain generations, SARSStock was a pitch to Woodstock; for others, NXNE is, due mostly to its name, expected to be like SXSW, which many will assure you is simply not a fair comparison. A concert is noticed for [...]

If musician and visual artist Kat Burns ruled the world, artists would earn a decent living wage, school teachers would receive the respect they deserve, and an artist’s wellspring of inspiration would never run dry. Sadly, Kat Burns doesn’t rule the world, teachers aren’t respected nearly enough, and after a month of creating an original [...]

It’s much less common to take notice when something good happens than something bad, and it’s all too rare that we celebrate a victory. After years of deriding the poetic injustice of a string of art and gallery themed developments in the Queen West neighbourhood springing up and nudging out the community they build their [...]

If you’ve ever passed by the rather majestic and frustratingly inaccessible old school building on Shaw Street, and wanted to be a part of its future, this may be your chance. The school, located between Queen Street West and Dundas Street West, has been closed and locked for the past decade. Last week, local hero [...]

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. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Arrive for the Coronation, 1937 by unknown photographer. Courtesy [...]

Photo by Remi Carreiro/Torontoist. Creative Place and Spaces is an occasional conference (it was held once in 2003, once in 2005, and is being held again right now) that brings together an assortment of thinkers to discuss how creativity can help shape and improve our cities. In case you couldn’t manage to make it out [...]

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we’ve either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and [...]