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Posts Filed Under: culture

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Historicist: The Dawn of the Horseless Era

Frederick Barnard Fetherstonhaugh owned Toronto's first "motor carriage."

By David Wencer

Believed to be the first automobile in Toronto, photographed circa 1912. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 56.

Now on Screen: Indie Game, Where Do We Go Now?, and Men in Black 3

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An Art-and-Science Discussion Dives Deep

The Royal Ontario Museum brought artists and scientists together for an evening of free-flowing discussion.

By Rachel Lissner

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Opening the Doors on Toronto

Every year, Doors Open Toronto lets Torontonians sneak looks at buildings they don't generally have access to. Here are some we're especially excited about this year.

By Carly Maga, Rachel Lissner, and Jamie Bradburn

Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrix_feet/3368265160/"}Metrix X{/a} from the {a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/torontoist"}Torontoist Flickr Pool{/a}.

CONTACT 2012: Off With Her Head

Strip away a woman's clothes in a photograph and often you're left with an object for men to ogle. "Glass Ceiling" explores the unfortunate world in which we live.

By Kyle Bachan

Photo by Jill Greenberg.

Declassified: Static Cling, a Fling, and a Few Other Things

A lot of people do a lot of weird stuff on the internet, and ground zero for commercial e-weirdness is Craigslist. In Declassified, Torontoist combs over our city’s listings to find the best (and worst) of the bunch.

By Rachel Lissner • Illustration by Matthew Daley

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A Play on Few Words

The National Theatre of the World takes two pages of a script and improvises them into an entire play.

By Kevin Scott

Photo by May Truong
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Spice City Toronto: Tons of Tamil Cuisine

At a strip mall in Markham, customers flock to a shop that serves massive Tamil meals on banana leaves, to go.

By Sarah Efron / Spice City Toronto

A banana-leaf meal and filled buns from Amma's Take Out & Catering. Photo by Sarah Efron.
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Bellwoods Brewery Brings Fresh, Flavourful Beers to West Queen West

A new brewery on Ossington Avenue raises the bar for local beers.

By Jaime Woo • Photos by Corbin Smith

A clean, airy look to Bellwoods Brewery nicely complements its namesake park.

Reel Toronto: The Cutting Edge

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

By David Fleischer

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David Chang Talks About His Upcoming Toronto Debut

The celebrity restaurateur says plans for the Toronto branch of his Momofuku empire are still in flux, and he likes it that way.

By Steve Kupferman

David Chang is coming to Toronto in three months, though we still don't know specifically what he's planning on doing when gets here. Photo by {a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbonyc/4566772321/"}dumbonyc{/a}.
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Lights, Camera … And Everything Else

This Friday, the inaugural edition of 360 Screenings will give new meaning to "surround sound" by bringing beloved movies from the screen to real life.

By Carly Maga • Photos by Corbin Smith

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Save Picnicface, Save Canadian Comedy?

Canadian sketch comedy troupe Picnicface is fighting to get its act back on TV after it was cancelled by Bell Media.

By Steve Fisher

Mark Little and Evany Rosen lounge on the grass (while Brian Macquarrie looks on) in a scene from the season (and possible series) finale of Picnicface.

A Celebration of Sketchiness

Local comedians celebrated their own, hunted werewolves, and gave birth to the antichrist at Saturday's Sketchiest Sketch Show.

By Chris Dart • Photos by Corbin Smith

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Now on Screen: Battleship, Damsels In Distress, Edwin Boyd

Because Toronto’s more movie obsessed than a Quentin Tarantino screenplay (yuk yuk), Torontoist brings you Now on Screen, a weekly roundup of new releases and rep cinema showings. Click on any film title for our review.

By Julian Carrington

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Paintfight Brings Colourful Attention to East Danforth

A ten-minute paint battle soaked the Danforth's "forgotten stretch."

By Rachel Lissner

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Inside Out Festival 2012

Our picks from the 22nd instalment of Toronto's annual LGBT film festival.

By Julian Carrington

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Televisualist: Upstairs in the House

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist.

By Christopher Bird

But dance for Nigel Lythgoe only one day per week, now.
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Historicist: Throwing Intellectual Bombs

Rabble-rousing feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman died in Toronto in 1940.

By Kevin Plummer

Mugshot of Emma Goldman, 1911, {a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2004000751/"}Library of Congress{/a} (LC-B2- 127-11).