BY: Unknown LOCATION: Spadina and Baldwin PHOTO BY: Mark Beauchamp FIELD NOTES: From what we recall from our secular Easter education, the magical, chocolate-egg-laying Easter Bunny sacrificed itself so we could eat chocolate. By that understanding, it would be a terrible waste of a sacrifice if we didn’t gorge on chocolate during the holiday (or [...]

It is a traditional practice, done at many churches during the Lenten season: remembering the journey of Jesus to his crucifixion, as described in the Bible. But Ins Choi does it a little differently. The Toronto-based actor and writer—perhaps best known for his play Kim’s Convenience—has spent the past several weeks performing his latest work, [...]

Every Saturday at noon, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Source: The Toronto Sunday World, March 27, 1910. When the world is beginning to awaken to the fact that spring with all its revivifying and gladdening influences is at hand, when [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. 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. David Willekes will provide the visuals in the Polydactyl Hearts Collective performance this [...]

While Easter isn’t widely celebrated in Japan even as a commercial holiday, they do produce and export a wide variety of interesting chocolate and candy that is happily available to us in Toronto. If you’re looking for last-minute Easter sweets and can’t bear the sight of another Allan-brand bunny, try some treats made by long-standing [...]

Photo of Cloud Eye Control courtesy of the Images Festival. FILM/MUSIC/ART: The closing-night gala for this year’s Images Festival will take place tonight at the Theatre Centre. The event, part of the festival’s Live Images series, will feature performances from Los Angeles–based digital media collective Cloud Eye Control, as well as Torontonian experimental-theatre collective Ammo [...]

An early Easter this year means you may be looking under snow banks instead of shrubs for your chocolate eggs. The Beaches is a great place to hold your own egg hunt, and while you’re there be sure to catch the Easter Parade. Rumour has it that the big bunny himself will be making an [...]