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. Click on any film title for our review.     Safe HouseDIRECTED BY DANIEL ESPINOSA Showtimes     We Need to Talk About KevinDIRECTED BY LYNNE RAMSAY Showtimes

Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience—A Parody by Dan and Jeff Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge Street) February 11 to March 25 $29.95 to $99.75 Much like heart attack–inducing burgers and pounds of poutine, there’s something about a seven-part epic of magic, destiny, and good vs. evil that just begs to be ingested in a fast-paced, [...]

Sad faces abounded last December when John Scythe, owner of Glad Day Bookshop, announced that low sales had forced him to put the beloved LGBTQ book store up for sale. Today, an announcement turned those frowns upside down. A group of local Torontonians faithful to the history of the iconic store have banded together to [...]

Rebellion has been brewing at city council. Today’s special meeting points to the increasing frustrations some of our elected representatives have had with the bull-headed management style of Mayor Rob Ford. But today’s debate on the future of public transit in Toronto is hardly the first time a large segment of council has decided not [...]

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is more than glass angles and that room full of swords. On Friday, the ROM held a free, day-long colloquium, as it does every year, to present a year-in-review of discoveries by the museum’s researchers and curators. These investigative endeavours cover every imaginable field, from natural history to textile art; [...]

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. No [...]

The Rhubarb Festival Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander Street) February 8 to 19 Wednesday to Sunday evening passes $20, Sunday afternoons PWYC For quite some time now, artists have said that this isn’t the most friendly time to be a theatrical risk-taker. For example, there was the SummerWorks funding crisis last summer, which [...]

It feels weird to refer to Quanche as a veteran of the local hip-hop scene. The Toronto rapper—real name Zack Gomez—is only 20 years-old. That said, he’s already put in a lot of work. He first popped up on the radar back in 2005, when he made a guest appearance on a mixtape by T-Dot [...]

“Outrageous” was one of many terms applied to Frank Zappa during his musical career. One album, he’d be in a smutty satirical mode, the next was full of serious compositions. When he and the latest incarnation of the Mothers of Invention arrived in May 1973, Zappa was on the cusp of what proved to be [...]

In the confusing realm of musical sub-genres, it could best be referred to as dance-rock. Or electro-pop. It’s so hard to tell anymore. But whatever it’s called, you’ll know it by the chest-pounding kick of the bass drum that doesn’t seem to flag even when the singer announces “a slow one.” Or the incessant hiss [...]