Reg Hartt, everyone’s favourite dude with a movie theatre in his basement, is promoting the new(ish) film version of off-Broadway tittilator Naked Boys Singing by screening a mini Queer Film Festival at the Cineforum over the next few weeks. Each Thursday night for the next four weeks, he’ll screen Naked Boys (which is exactly what [...]

Toronto-based Naked News (NSFW, duh), which already broadcasts both an English and Japanese version, will soon also be available in Spanish, Italian and Korean. That’s right. While other newsrooms are cutting back, laying off correspondents, and eliminating foreign bureaus, Naked News is (insert your pun of choice here). If you are not familiar with the [...]

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. [...]

The World Naked Bike Ride wants to make a point that there are many things more offensive than a bare bum. The indecent exposure is not to some guy’s twig n’ berries, but to our polluted environment. On Saturday, Toronto was among 70 cities around the world that took a spin au naturel as a [...]

Saturday, June 9 is International Knit in Public Day, the holiday for people who view knitting as a lifestyle rather than a hobby. Fibre fanatics will be taking to the streets for a “yarn crawl” to spread the good word (of knitting, that is). The Toronto Knit Rabble will holding a crawl divided into West, [...]

So last night was the Oscars: Ellen DeGeneres was surprisingly enjoyable; there were not many upsets except perhaps The Departed for Best Picture (really?); Canada only won one award, Best Animated Short for The Danish Poet; Gwyneth Paltrow resembled a giant prawn. And not in a good way. Yesterday, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty went to [...]

When it’s minus something degrees outside and minus more degrees with the windchill, sitting and knitting in the warmth of your home is a good way to pass the time. Since indoor knitting is a luxury, why not throw something together for the less fortunate folks on the streets? Founded by Sadie Lewis, StreetKnit is [...]

Lt. Frank Drebin, Police Squad. Jerry Zucker, Hudson’s Bay? Is the director of Ghost and the Naked Gun series buying up North America’s oldest company? The Hudson’s Bay Company, born in 1670, is being bought up by a North Carolina business type called Jerry Zucker. If the Zucker completes the takeover, with his astounding $1 [...]