A screenshot of a post on The Sidewalk Files. We could have sworn sidewalk construction was just a mildly disruptive thing that happens every now and then, but it turns out it’s actually a carefully coordinated sculptural collaboration between awesome, friendly guys in day-glo vests. Credit this epiphany to The Sidewalk Files, a pop-up blog [...]

Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist. Lauren White is starting to feel the pressure. On Thursday night, she’ll be hosting a party to mark the ten-year anniversary of her widely known and much-loved/hated blog, the hyper-personal internet-cum-life saga that is Raymi the Minx. She’s taken care of the planning and string pulling pretty much by herself, and [...]

A screenshot of the new BlobFord.com. Today in the Wide World of Ford (and here we’re using the word “wide” not as a jab at the councillor’s prodigious beltline, but just to indicate the fact that practically anything he touches can and will become a headline): the Rob Ford parody blog we reported on last [...]

Carl Wilson, Margaux Williamson, and Chris Randle have—as of three weeks ago—a new group blog, focused on culture through a Canadian-ish lens, intended for smart people. (Wilson you’d recognize from the Globe, Toronto Life, his blog Zoilus, or his book about Céline Dion; Williamson from the art and film worlds and maybe from her blog [...]

Sunlight and snow accentuate the architecture of the Jane/Dundas Toronto Public Library, one of the ninety-eight branches that Catherine Raine has visited and blogged about. Photo by Stewart Russell. You could fill a book with what most of us don’t know about the Toronto Public Library, but Catherine Raine is one Torontonian who wouldn’t need [...]

Illustration by Jeremy Kai/Torontoist. We all want to know what’s awesome and what sucks. But keeping track of top-ten lists, tennis tournaments, the Oscars, national elections, Nobel Prizes, and little-league trophies can be exhausting. Local writer couple Alison Broverman and Justin Go seek to simplify these limiting criteria for achievement with their blog, Tournament of [...]

Yonge Street with Detroit’s model D and Pittsburgh’s Pop City, all published by Issue Media Group. After yesterday’s post about Yonge Street, we caught up with Paul Schutt, co-founder of Issue Media Group, Yonge Street‘s Detroit-based publisher. He answered some questions about his company’s editorial practices and its somewhat original way of making money in [...]

Shawn Micallef started hinting about his new project on Sunday with the first in a series of cryptic tweets. Micallef, who is a senior editor of Spacing Magazine and a public-space columnist for Eye Weekly, acknowledged that his social media tease campaign was pretty shameless. Even so, he refused to reveal anything about the mysterious [...]

Mathew Ingram speaks at last year’s TEDxTO. Photo by J. Adam Huggins and Aaron Rodericks, courtesy of TEDxTO. Mathew Ingram, whose job as communities editor at the Globe and Mail consisted of ushering the one-hundred-and-sixty-six-year-old newspaper into the age of social media, announced on Twitter this afternoon that he would be resigning his post to [...]

Photo of a Sun newspaper box in October 2000 by Kevin Steele. Subtlety is not something that the Toronto Sun does particularly well, so it’s only fitting that a blog devoted to ruthlessly criticizing them on a day-to-day basis is called, well, Toronto Sun Sucks. The blog was created by Jim Schwartz. He told Torontoist [...]

Photo of the Lillian H. Smith library by jmv. Local gadfly Joe Clark is well known for his thoroughly biting analyses of typography, the idiosyncrasies of Canadian spelling, and the TTC. But while we at Torontoist are more than happy with his generally curmudgeonly demeanour, Clark has decided to shake things up a bit and, [...]