When Torontonians take to the streets tonight for the sixth annual Nuit Blanche all-night free contemporary art event (check out our complete guide here), many will take to the skies at Flightpath Toronto at City Hall, and others to the crowds at Food Truck Eats in the Distillery District. But we’re guessing another large portion [...]

In today's Urban Planner: donate your lunch money, learn the applications of discrete math, smell like teen spirit, and send the Sea Captain off on a (landlocked) tour.

The Green Room’s façade (top) and food safety inspection notice (bottom), on October 9. Photos by Joel Charlebois/Torontoist. On September 22, Toronto Public Health shut the Green Room down. For the fourth time in two years, the popular Annex hangout had failed its health inspection—two times more than any of the sixteen thousand other restaurants, [...]

Sonic Youth. Photo courtesy of Hot Docs. For those hoarding worn-in (and valuable) VHS copies in their old basement bedrooms, 1991: The Year Punk Broke doesn’t require any introduction. The content (and context) speaks for itself: a tour documentary centering on Sonic Youth’s 1991 trek across Europe, the film includes footage of a pre-Nevermind Nirvana, [...]

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. A posthumous tribute wall dedicated to singer/songwriter Elliot Smith sat defaced by graffiti for months on end––LAist [...]

We managed to see Cloverfield a few weeks ago, and with the release of Diary of the Dead (above) this week, we have to say it’s rather timely to discuss our opinion of it. As tired as this quote is, there’s really no better way to describe Cloverfield than to take from Macbeth’s famous soliloquy: [...]

Everyone loves the thrill of discovering a hot new band, but there’s something equally exciting about watching a bunch of grizzled, middle-aged rock ‘n’ roll veterans show the kids that they can still hold it down. The second annual MQMusicfest takes place on August 19 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre, and promises to be filled [...]

Tonight, the Horseshoe Tavern plays host to the Pitchfork/Secretly Canadian Indie Rock Triple-Header. This is a chance to see three awesome bands you’ve probably never heard of… but who everyone will be talking about in a few months. If you want to get ahead of the curve, read on. San Francisco’s Birdmonster headline the night. [...]