There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four [...]

Toronto-based Oli Goldsmith has embarked on a project both daunting and bizarre, but surely to the delight of pop culture afficionados: he’s creating a thousand portraits of…Borat? Yep, Borat. A senior designer at the CBC, former Artist in Residence at the Drake Hotel and creator of Our Lady Peace’s Spritual Machines album art, Goldsmith has [...]

Torontonians were once again woefully unprepared for the first major snowfall of the season. 500 traffic accidents in one day, people. Do we really want everybody else making fun of us again, like that time Mel Lastman called in the Army to help out after a snowfall? It’s winter. It comes every year. Just because [...]

Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It’s getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we’ve seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he’d made his way around the world on the -ist [...]

David Miller was reelected Mayor of Toronto with almost 57 per cent of the vote. Voter turnout increased to 41.1 per cent. Full election results for all wards are available on the Toronto website. Miller used his acceptance speech to make his promises clear. Rather than use the new City of Toronto Act to add [...]

Absolutely no one can think of an interesting way to introduce Bobcat Goldthwait’s return to feature direction, (after 1992’s Shakes the Clown) Sleeping Dogs Lie, because by the very nature of the film you’re forced to kind of explain that it’s about a woman sucking off a dog but really it’s a complex film about [...]

Only fifty years left for sea fish. Unless, of course, we do something wacky and start serious conservation efforts immediately. For those interested in eating ecologically responsible seafood, here is help. Former Pizza Pizza head arrested for income tax evasion. He apparently “forgot” to pay over $650,000 in income taxes. A federal report says the [...]

Could Garth Turner become the first Green MP in the House of Commons? It’s not as unlikely as you may think. In related news, a CTV-Globe and Mail poll finds that Canadians would be willing to pay an energy tax if the funds went towards reducing greenhouse gases In one of the weirdest cases in [...]

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq’s and vacations to holidays and the realization that ’06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? Phillyist is concerned that the [...]

What, it’s over? Filmmakers, fans, industry people and most of all bloggers are in shock that this year’s TIFF is coming to an end. Vickie over at Moviepie Musings has even given it a name Post Festival Sickness. I hate PFS. And, if it really is PFS, it’s not even waiting until after my final [...]

We start today’s late roundup with the Dixie Chicks or the Dixie Chicks documentary to be exact. GreenCine daily goes on at length about Shut Up and Sing, the doc about the backlash the country trio faced after making anti-Bush comments. And we can’t seem to shake Borat. Time’s Richard Corliss seems to have fallen [...]

It’s not quite an uprising more like a small complaint but an important one nonetheless. “Why are there no Q and A’s at the Elgin theatre,” Jeremy Barker at Popped Culture asks? “We’ve already accosted two film fest directors this week to ask what was up. Noah Cowan, co-director of the festival, explained that while [...]