READING: Before his band’s show tonight at the Music Gallery, Drew Daniel of electronic duo Matmos will be reading from his tribute to Throbbing Gristle’s album 20 Jazz Funk Greats (as part of the 33 1/3 book series). This Ain’t the Rosedale Library (86 Nassau Street), 1 p.m., FREE. MUSIC: The Eagles are a cover [...]

Canadian Bar Association demands that Stephen Harper negotiate with the United States to return Omar Khadr to Canada. The country’s largest legal organization (and Khadr’s own American military lawyer, for that matter) states that Khadr will not get a fair trial in the United States, which is obvious. Also obvious: the likelihood of Harper doing [...]

According to an anonymous reader, the White Stripes are playing a free surprise show, right now (3:30 p.m.) at Yonge & Grosvenor. No need to get out yer wallets for tonight’s show at the Amphitheatre after all… UPDATE (4:50 p.m.): Okay, apparently show’s done (we think? can anyone confirm? Yep, all done.) If you’ve got [...]

City budget passes: 7.9 billion smackers for the year. Noteworthy: city councillors decided that keeping their free golf passes was extremely important. I don’t think most of Rob Ford’s proposed budget cuts are anything but hamfisted, but come on, City Council—pay for your own goddamned golf game, willya? TTC worker killed, causing shutdown of the [...]

If you picked up a copy of this week’s Eye, you may have noticed that the text along the bottom of the cover claims that “It’s official! Eye Weekly has the largest circulation of any urban weekly in Canada!*” Yipee! That asterisk leads to small text running up the side of the paper that reads [...]

Ontario Lottery Corporation recalls over a million scratch lotto cards after a customer complains you can see a winner without scratching. Between this and the retailers-stealing-jackpot-tickets flap a few months ago, it is probably even odds that every Ontario lotto jackpot in the last five years has been won by one guy in Whitby named [...]

All the news outlets are talking about the TTC strike but lots of other things happened on the weekend. A couple was killed in a bad traffic accident on Saturday night. Police suspect street racing as a possible cause. Leslie Scrivener of the Star writes a nice synopsis of the city’s cycling culture. The story [...]

Toronto doctor Gino Bucchino will be representing Italian ex-pats in the Italian parliament after winning a tight election. He’ll be representing all of North America. West side cheesemaker Mario Pelosi makes damn good ricotta. Actually he makes the world’s best ricotta, and that’s not just Torontoist being proud of fellow Torontonians. Judges at the World [...]