Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. The TTC is holding a contest to drum up name suggestions from the public for two pairs of tunnel-boring machines recently purchased to help carve out the forthcoming Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. Expected to be completed in 2015, the extension will add 8.6 kilometres to the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line, bringing it [...]

One of the original “Jerks My Chicken” ads from TABIA, from last fall. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist. TABIA (the Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas) is about to introduce a second round of double entendre–laden transit shelter ads like the ones they started putting up last fall. (Remember “My Neighbour Jerks My Chicken?” How could [...]

Illustration by Clayton Hanmer/Torontoist. We know that a lot of you people—readers, we mean—read us at work. We like to imagine that those of you who do so do it in a work area that is as pristine and flawless as you are: a tidy desk, tasteful but subdued decoration, everything completely ordered and organized [...]

Films! Films films films films. Sometimes it’s hard to get this column started, so we just sit in front of a blank word document and type the word “films” until it doesn’t make any sense to us any more. But by then, we’ve got started typing, at least, and so we continue. Cloverfield! Also, we [...]

Oh yes. There Will Be Blood is the latest film from P.T. Anderson (he of Magnolia and Boogie Nights). Set across turn-of-the-century America, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a miner-turned-oil tycoon, and scored by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, the film is making pretty much everyone who loves movies lose their mind: Gaze upon its 95% on Rotten [...]

Say what you will about The Onion‘s image-locating techniques: they are still the best parody news entity in the universe (be it online or in book form with titles like Our Dumb Century or their yearly Ad Nauseam compilations). Good news, then, if you like both The Onion and vast, sweeping generalizations about entire groups [...]

This time last year, he was wishing us Merry Christmess from Zanta, and now former Torontoist staffer/billboard modification specialist Fauxreel is selling prints! While we naturally dig all his billboard work, there's something about the shot of the dead bird above that's just gorgeous, and––like all of his work––one hell of a conversation piece. Shots of all the prints that are for sale are after the fold, and Fauxreel's also giving one lucky Torontoist...

Do you love the music of Daft Punk? Perhaps you hate it. Whatever your feelings on their music, we all know it’s better without Kanye West shouting pointlessly over the top. Er, actually, we meant for that sentence to go: whatever your feelings on their music, you might be interested in seeing Daft Punk’s new [...]

Blade Runner is no longer showing at the Regent, which in many ways is lucky, as otherwise it was going to turn into a weekly, Rocky Horror Picture Show-style event for us—well, without all of that tedious audience interaction, which now we think about it, would make it not very like the Rocky Horror Picture [...]

Oh man! What a pickle. This week we have the release of one of our favourite films in ages, This is England, and one of our favourite films of all time, Blade Runner, in its super-special, Ridley Scott-approved final cut. So, what do we lead with? It’s an impossible situation! If Torontoist was some kind [...]