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. It’s [...]

5:40 p.m. Dark, cold evening rush hour. Dundas streetcar, eastbound, approaching University. Driver (over the P.A. system): If you’re exiting the streetcar, please take all your belongings with you and remember to smile, because life is too short to be grumpy. Everyone chuckles and, for a moment, feels a bit better. Hear something? Send it [...]

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see. all your life you have waited for this moment to be free… Streets are for People—in conjunction with Newmindspace and nine other groups of urban merrymakers—is holding a number of events this Thursday night: a parade that starts from Central Tech, a Critical Mass ride that kicks [...]

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By Teeth AT DUNDAS AND MARKHAMPHOTO BY TEETH

Photo by DimsumDarren from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Famished one bright, sunny, morning, Torontoist was in no mood for the greasy spoon fare most oft served for weekend breakfast. We felt the need for something with a little heart, and so turned our gourmand gaze towards Spadina and Dundas, and the delightful dim sum options [...]

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown NEAR DUNDAS AND KENSINGTONPHOTO BY JOULGER

“Missed Connection posts are at an all-time high. “Help reduce the numbers by talking to that girl on the bus.” Words of existential wisdom (which needn’t be interpreted as gender-specific) spotted by former contributor Carly Beath on the streetcar stop at the southwest corner of Dundas and University. Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie.

Well, it sure is classier than the Scotiabank. For one thing, the AMC Yonge & Dundas 24, opening today, isn’t called the “Scotiabank.” And its interior design scheme (seen above) is premised on the role that movies play in the popular imagination, rather than the role that you play in Taco Bell’s quarterly profits. And [...]

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown (Hecho?) IN AN ALLEY SOUTH OF DUNDAS, NEAR DUNDAS AND HURONPHOTO BY SOPWITH.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By ANSER AT GLEN BAILLIEPHOTO BY SOPWITH. More work after the jump… AT DUNDAS & MCCAULPHOTO BY SOPWITH. AT SPADINA AND BALDWINPHOTO BY SOPWITH.

“This advertising space and/or building for lease” Photo of the west side of Yonge, at Gould, by Jonathan Goldsbie.