Guiding the audience through a series of childhood photos, street artist Sean Martindale paused at an early photo of himself, his chubby arms cuddling a Coke can. He remarked how early we’re exposed to corporate branding. The audience guffawed, but Martindale was dead serious. In a chat before his lecture (titled “Playful Interventions”) at the [...]

We Live Here unlocks the stories behind some of Toronto’s most unique, quirky, and all-out weird homes, the people who live in them, and the people who live with them. In many cultures, elephants represent longevity, prosperity, intelligence, and good luck. And who wouldn’t want as much of all that as possible? So, why not? [...]

Bed bugs are so 2010. Recently, we've noticed a new infestation on the city's streets—but this time it's pretty, heartwarming, and a few Toronto artists and community builders are working hard to spread rather than eliminate it.

This edition of Weekend Planner offers up some stellar options: catch screenings of a documentary about Palestine, watch robots fight or academics debate, meet up with the Boys in the Band, and celebrate David Suzuki's birthday with dinner and a movie.

Priceless postcards in the Whodunit? preview gallery. “Can I get eight hundred, eight hundred. Nine hundred. One thousand, thank you.” At an auction, it takes seconds for a painting to go from one artist’s personal vision to a collector’s item. “Eight hundred… Eight hundred… It feels great to bid sir, it feels great to bid. [...]

The fourteen new bike stands designed by students at OCAD University probably won’t mark the beginning of the end for the old ring and post bike stands, which have long been a fixture—and a favorite target of bike thieves—on Toronto’s streets. That might be too much to ask at a time when cycling itself has [...]

OCADU Board of Governors Chair Robert Montgomery, MPP Monte Kwinter, OCADU President Sara Diamond, and MPP John Milloy pose with a framed copy of the bill that authorized OCAD’s name change in the provincial legislature. Photo by D.A. Cooper/Torontoist. This fall marks the beginning of the first school year during which the former Ontario College [...]

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Have [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Think teen girls have nothing to read? Hardly! Fundraiser tonight at The Shop [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Eating Breakfast by Steven Beckly. Courtesy of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Exhibition and Launch [...]

One view of the space in front of 52 Division on Dundas Street West as re-imagined by the OCAD Design Competition’s winning team. What do you get when you take a spectrum of OCAD students and give them ninety-seven hours to transform a useless slab of the city’s horizontal concrete? Well, if you threw in [...]

Moss Park. Photo by Erik Twight from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Some of Toronto’s residents with disabilities may soon see their living standards improve thanks to a new partnership between Toronto Community Housing and OCAD. On January 19, the two groups, along with Mayor David Miller, announced that they will be collaborating to research ways [...]