View CONTACT 2011 in a larger map CONTACT, the largest annual photography festival in the world, is well underway. With so much going on recently—election! Jane’s Walk! Hot Docs!—it can be hard to keep up. Fortunately, CONTACT runs through to the end of May, with many individual shows running later still, and there is plenty [...]

In today's Urban Planner: saving the Fort York bridge, old-new photography tricks, Atom Egoyan in conversation, Theatre 20's first concert, and Mantown's hard drinking comedy at the Hard Luck Bar.

In today's Urban Planner: images of, and new thoughts on alternatives to, oil pipelines in the Canadian wilderness at CONTACT; a new class of dancers, at TDT's Momentum 2011; Soulpepper introduces Guillermo Verdecchia's award-winning Fronteras Americanas to a new generation; and a new form of music from Ninja Funk Orchestra.

“Hello in there. You, yes: don’t go! I’ve been wanting to talk to you. Can you see me now?” For most commuters, hopping on the streetcar is routine. Flash the pass, eyes jump to the first available seat. Then it’s sit-music-book until the final destination. But if passengers on the #4114 could lift their eyes [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. 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. Photo by Esmond Lee. ART: Esmond Lee considers himself to be “part space-shelter-imaginer, part humankind-lover, and part camera-owner.” His photography [...]

Left: Katia, 2008, by Marianne Newman; right: Iconic Beauty II, by Caitlin Cronenberg. “Honey, any woman who counts on her face is a fool.” So says the mother figure of Kiki in Zadie Smith’s fierce, tender 2007 novel, On Beauty. Kiki’s right; better to count on the body. At CONTACT—this month’s cross-Toronto photography fest—we’ve taken [...]

Panoramaist is the Toronto shoe-gazer’s worst enemy. In the virtual panoramas, created by Tony Makepeace, you can look up, down, side to side, in, and out—pretty much every direction but back at yourself, which would be kind of creepy. Click the image above to jump to the panorama of the Stephen Bulger Gallery captured during [...]

The photographs of Adam Krawesky hang from trees, lamp posts, railings, and street signs like prizes in a treasure hunt. Part of the photographic explosion that is CONTACT, Krawesky has installed his work in tiny plastic slide-viewers across the city that he has spent years documenting. There are maps provided to guide you to their [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. 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. Tom, 2002. Photo by Steven James Brown from his “Word Play” exhibit. Image courtesy of CONTACT 2009. ART: This weekend [...]

“The Utopia of the 20-Minute Embrace No 6. 2000,” by the Gao Brothers. Should you be headily developing plans for CONTACT, Toronto’s beloved photo-fest, here’s a (news) flash: with a cruel month of waiting still ahead, the festival program went live today. You can read all about it online and plan accordingly, but that seems [...]