These days, everyone and their grandmother has a celebrity gossip blog. Perez Hilton became a millionaire by outing Lance Bass and defacing paparazzi photos, while TMZ.com (named for the Thirty Mile Zone surrounding Hollywood) came out of nowhere in 2005 and almost instantaneously became the top site to see celebrities behaving badly. Sassafraz may be [...]

It’s not been a week since the Toronto International Film Festival left us, and this week’s new releases make it hard for us to move on despite a couple of TIFF premieres leading the way. We’ll start with Paul Haggis’ In The Valley of Elah, because he’s a good Canadian boy…or is he? It’s interesting [...]

Did you know that 26% of Ontarians believe in creationism? 42% of Canadians think dinosaurs and humans coexisted on earth. Check out these fun stats from a recent Angus Reid poll. Dalton McGuinty is launching a $650 million fund which will offer grants to Ontario automotive companies that build clean energy power generators. The goal? [...]

We love The Patterns Trilogy. If we had more parties at our apartment, we’d have it running on our television or projected onto a wall, looping endlessly. Well, if we could be sure it wouldn’t hypnotize our guests (and ourselves) into a sublime stupefaction. Therefore, Trilogy of Trilogies, one of tonight’s Worldwide Short Film Festival [...]

OMG! This week sees the release of Kickin’ It Old Skool, a Jamie Kennedy vehicle. He plays a breakdancer who awakes from a 20-year coma and something that Jamie Kennedy probably considers hilarity ensues. We here at Torontoist Towers are astounded at the idea that somebody greenlighted a film with Jamie Kennedy in it. Absoultely [...]

Torontoist thinks it’s pretty disprespectful when the din of bar chatter drowns out a performer, and our hearts go out to anyone who’s ever tried to entertain a crowd of drunken patrons who think that opening acts are merely background music to obnoxious, beer-soaked conversation. Tim Perlich, NOW‘s longtime resident music crank, also finds issue [...]

Damn it, Arcade Fire, why do you keep teasing us? Beginning at the end of this month (in support of their soon-to-be-released new album, Neon Bible) the band is playing five consecutive nights in three big cities — and not one of them comes from the Iroquois word for “place where trees stand in the [...]

Absolutely no one can think of an interesting way to introduce Bobcat Goldthwait’s return to feature direction, (after 1992’s Shakes the Clown) Sleeping Dogs Lie, because by the very nature of the film you’re forced to kind of explain that it’s about a woman sucking off a dog but really it’s a complex film about [...]

Last night marked the second occasion of our favourite new quarterly amusement: Watching Cheesy Dance Movies With Toronto’s B-girl Crew, Shebang! We arrived at the packed theatre to discover the primo second and third central rows of seating reserved with flimsy “Warning: Birthday Party Do Not Cross” tape. Throwing caution to the ground like so [...]

Frank over at OMG Blog passed along this ludicrous looking poster that he spotted along Queen West. It’s yet another condo development with yet another silly marketing slogan, this time the Bohemian Embassy. Frank goes on to critique the co-option of the word bohemian by various things including Broadway musicals, and now really really inept [...]

Torontoist thinks that we’ve done a good job of showing people that Torontonians throw away some pretty good stuff. Which makes us wonder why Michigan doesn’t want our trash? We’re practically giving the stuff away and those ungrateful Americans are actually trying to ban it. Seriously though, the threat of Michigan banning Toronto’s garbage has [...]