A lot of people do a lot of weird stuff on the internet, and ground zero for commercial e-weirdness is Craigslist. In Declassified, Torontoist combs over our city’s listings to find the best (and worst) of the bunch. Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist. Things Torontoist will herein declassify: how to rent an apartment, unload a mattress, [...]

Gossip no longer, culture vultures. We’ve finally got confirmation on CanStage’s upcoming season. Like it or not, it looks like the rumours are true. As we reported before, the Bluma Appel Theatre’s rather commercial lineup is entirely free of any Canadian-written shows, which has some folks in quite a tizzy. And as we suspected, CanStage [...]

Here’s something to clear away your post-NYE doldrums: the Fringe, everyone’s favourite early-summer theatre festival (don’t worry, SummerWorks, you’re our favourite late-summer theatre festival) has had a baby. Aw! Last Wednesday, something called The Next Stage Theatre Festival began at Factory Theatre. Next Stage really is like a baby Fringe: a smaller festival of only [...]

Necessary Angel has just announced a totally cool event planned to take place on March 3, 2008. Three playwrights will be given the opening lines for a new play. Each playwright will have 4 hours in which to write said play, after which three different teams will have 5 hours to rehearse the works. When those 5 hours are up, the plays have to be performed at Necessary Angel's annual gala at the Capitol...

Living Tall is basically an entirely perfect one man show, and it’s only playing at the Tarragon Extra Space until Sunday, so you’d better get your act in gear. The script by Mike Geither is tight, hilarious and fascinating, Karin Randoja’s direction is focused and inventive and Ker Wells’ performance is astounding and completely compelling. [...]

If there’s anything Jesus loves more than flattery, it’s porn stars. Well, technically, Jesus loves everyone—even those little teenage tramps and their HPV vaccines—but now, ol’ JHC is adding some marketing pizzazz to that affection. Since deities also love acting all obscure and ambiguous, the Michigan-based XXX Church (savvy!) has taken it upon themselves to [...]

Thanks to AEG Live, the same great people who gave us Justin Timberlake tickets to give away in April, we have yet another American cultural phenomenon looking to invade Canada: So You Think You Can Dance. So You Think You Can Dance comes to the Air Canada Centre on Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 8:00 [...]

Jesus in Montana is a one-man show by Barry Smith detailing his actual experience as a young man of hitchhiking to Missoula, Montana where he moved in with an octogenarian claiming to be the Second Coming who also happened to be a convicted child molester. If that doesn’t sound very funny, you’ll just have to [...]

The good people at Brunswick Theatre are hosting another week of free film screenings! Return their love and boost attendance by coming out to see one (or a few) of the following films: Monday, July 9 Darwin’s Nightmare—7 p.m. Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Pushing Drugs & Marketing Disease—9:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 10 Wal-Mart: The High [...]

Weekly indie institution Wavelength started in 1999, setting up shop at Ted’s Wrecking Yard, then bouncing between venues until landing at its current home, Sneaky Dee’s, in 2002. Past performers read like a who’s-who of home grown indie music: Great Lake Swimmers, The Bicycles, Cadence Weapon, Julie Doiron, Peaches, Final Fantasy, Feist—and the list goes [...]

Last night at the beautiful Winter Garden Theatre, the winners of the 28th Annual Dora Awards were announced in a ceremony hosted by the hilarious Rick Miller (of MacHomer and Bigger Than Jesus fame). The Doras are basically Canada’s version of the Tonies, except you can’t watch them on TV and see Molly Ringwald and [...]

Developers RioCan bought the parking lot at the corner of Queen Street West and Portland back in 2005. Immediately, rumours started to circulate that a big box store, like Home Depot, was going to be built at the site. At the time, The Globe and Mail reported that RioCan planned to start building in 2007. [...]