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Televisualist: Yes, We Said “Death Leprechauns”

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday The CBC has brought back InSecurity for a second season, and we quite enjoyed the first season in a low-key, Canadian sort of way. It’s not [...]

Sound Advice: When The Night Comes In by Art of Fresh

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Why hip-hop duo Art of Fresh aren’t bigger in Toronto is a real head-scratcher. Juno-winning producer Bryam “Slakah the Beatchild” Joseph, after all, has [...]

Televisualist: Dancing With All The New Shows

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House and Tom DeLay as himself. Illustration by Brett Lamb/Torontoist. Monday House returns. Last season House descended into complete crazyland addiction to [...]

Televisualist: It’s Season Finale Week!

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday The Big Bang Theory concludes its second season tonight as Leonard and the nerds plan a work trip to the North Pole and Penny has doubts. [...]

Televisualist: Losers, Goo, And Doctor Who

Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday A new episode of Gossip Girl, which gets way much more buzz than it deserves considering it’s a pretty average teen soap with occasionally clever flashes [...]

All That Glitters is Noisy Treasure

Fool’s Gold Records, known for their dirty, cut-up, fidgety electro artists, recently signed Atlanta-based Treasure Fingers. Tomorrow, May 15th, Treasure Fingers teams up with rising bloghouse master Kill The Noise for the “School’s Out Forever Tour” at Wrongbar, courtesy of the boys at Dopplehertz. Plus there is the added treat of a DJ set from [...]

Toronto Rocks Miami

This weekend, Toronto was impossible to miss at Miami’s Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival. Currently, five Torontonians occupy the number one and two and slots on the electro house chart on Beatport, which has become the de facto standard website for legally downloading electronic music, and a major player in the Winter Music [...]

Drop the Needle: PHATT al

One of the biggest complaints that Toronto hip hop artists have is that they are ignored by local media, and, for the most part, they’re right. Drop the Needle hopes to help remedy this by checking in with some of the city’s finest artists each month to see what’s up. Photo by Mark Kasumovic. Since [...]

The Rump Shaker: March 6–12

It’s Canadian Music Week and that means there’s an unusually large number of hip hop shows going on. KRS-One will be teachin’ at The Opera House on Saturday as he continues his Stop the Violence movement. RZA dons his Bobby Digital mask on Sunday at the Phoenix. There’s also grimy New York hip-hop (M.O.P. on [...]

Nuit Launch

The organizers of Nuit Blanche held a launch event at OCAD this morning to announce this year’s curators—Wayne Baerwaldt, Director and Curator of Exhibitions at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at the Alberta College of Art and Design; Dave Dyment, Director of Programming at Mercer Union, Toronto; Gordon Hatt, a writer and curator who lives in [...]

500 Designs For The New York Times

Since January 2006, quirky black-and-white brushstroke illustrations have graced the back page of the The New York Times Magazine. The work is that of Toronto-based designer and OCAD teacher Bob Hambly, who just completed his 500th illustration—a bus—for the prestigious Sunday newspaper supplement. “Even after twelve years, I still get that little pang in my [...]

City Sells McLand, Memo McBumbled, Ryerson Says Facebook McBad

City sells “the McDonald’s site” on Bloor for a fairly low price. However, Adam Vaughan insists there are upsides to the deal, such as being able to limit the height of the condo development that will take its place, because who would want tall buildings in the downtown core? Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. Although [...]