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Photo courtesy of Theatre Passe Muraille. Architect Theatre’s Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show is in the middle of a three-week run at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM). It has received warm reviews from the Star, the Globe, and the Post, and even caught the attention of Margaret Atwood. These Toronto performances mark the first three-week [...]

I Want Your Job finds Torontonians who make a living doing exactly what they love to do, in any field, and for any salary, and asks them how they did it. Name: Gloria MacDonald Job: Owner and founder of Perfect Partners dating agency and matchmaking service. When Gloria MacDonald tells her clients that she understands [...]

Photos by Corbin Smith/Torontoist. WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square. WHEN: Thursday, December 2, at 6:09 p.m. WHAT: Newmindspace’s latest thing, The Big Kiss, brought couples and friends and other pairs of loved ones to kiss below Yonge-Dundas Square’s new mistletoe. (Virgin, the event’s sponsor and the ones responsible for the mistletoe, is giving $5 per kiss to [...]

Before we published our post yesterday about a chair for sale on Kijiji by a woman with one heck of an ex-boyfriend story, we emailed the seller. The details of their now-dead relationship, we thought—alleged relationships with “transvestite hooker[s],” alleged “cocaine habit,” alleged grand theft—were too sensational to be real, and plus, there were plenty [...]

“Well I’ve got this lovely armchair for sale. I’m told it is an Eames chair by my low-life ex.” And that is how it begins—this listing for an armchair, for sale in Hamilton, titled “Eames Teak Armchair: EX ROBBED ME BLIND!” Allegations include not just theft, but a “secret transvestite hooker and cocaine habit.” If [...]

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo or (two) from a photographer in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool, our way of showing off their great work and starting the day off as prettily as possible. a special message for jia z BY JENTSE

Photo courtesy of Posterchild. Posterchild (Torontoist contributor and Torontoist fave) has spent the last two and a half months in New York City, most of it with his girlfriend of two years, Sonja. One of his projects while there has been putting up what he calls “New York Sunsets“: large black-and-white drawings of the New [...]

Photo by ardenstreet from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The culprit behind the printed posters above—spotted around downtown late last week, many of them now gone—is as of yet unclear, but if we had to hazard a guess we’d say that it’s a young man, aged 18–23, who is often met with rejection, rudeness and indifference, [...]

In the barter section of Craigslist’s Toronto classifieds, some people are content to trade a small pot of “slowly cooling American fiddleheads, marinating in Gay Lea salted butter” for one or two “nice rounded goblets” of Stella. And some, like this gentleman, want more: UNLIMITED LOVE AND MUSIC FOR newMAC LAPTOP (TORONTO) Reply to: sale-694042090@craigslist.org [...]