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. The Cinesphere, as depicted on an album celebrating a change in call letters for 680 AM (from CHFI to CFTR), 1971. When Ontario Place recently announced intentions to revitalize the forty-year-old [...]

Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Torontoist, like nearly every other web publication staffed by the appropriately web-savvy, boasts its fair share of geeks. And when we say geeks, we mean geeks—the kind whose browsers dedicate at least one tab to Memory Alpha, while jumping between MSN conversations debating the Wilsonian overtones of James T. Kirk’s [...]

You know what sucks? Burning significant quantities of helicopter fuel for the purpose of towing around an ad. You know what’s cool? Seeing the Batman logo flying across the sky. Life is complicated sometimes. So, yes, The Dark Knight comes out today. Well, actually it came out about fourteen hours ago, with midnight screenings that [...]