This what a bioterrorist looks like, according to the FBI. Dr. Steven Kurtz (right) is a Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo and member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), an art and theatre collective co-founded by Kurtz and his late wife, Hope. In May 2004, the Kurtzes were preparing a piece called Free Range Grains, which allowed participants to test food for the presence of genetically modified organisms, when Hope died of heart failure...

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site—from LAist to Londonist—compile some of their most interesting posts into a brief blurb. It’s Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse, and it appears, across the network, every Sunday. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances [...]

This is what you won’t be mistaking for a dime in your pocket anymore: the TTC’s new token. While the old token was incredibly easy to counterfeit and felt of a lesser quality than a Chuck E. Cheese coin, the new one looks a little more official and is virtually impossible to counterfeit, according to [...]

Are you ready for the ‘real’ Toronto? According to some immigrant Russian kid from Nyzhny Novgorod (hello, girlfriend, Russia is so hot this season), has filmed a documentary-style DVD called ‘Real Toronto’, showing a slice of gangs, guns, n’ violence in the PJs of Toronto. TOist hasn’t seen it yet, but these guys have. Overall, [...]