Just another normal day for Portland’s Zoobombers. Photo by huronbike. Sure, Toronto, you heart your bikes, but there are other cities just as cycle-centric as you are. Tonight at CineCycle, the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation presents a screening of VEER, a critically approved documentary that examines Portland’s (at times) wacky bike culture and shows [...]

Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Transit vehicles are being diverted and streets have been closed near Queen and Bathurst as firefighters battle a six-alarm blaze this morning. The fire broke out about 5 a.m. and spread through eight low-rise buildings on the south side of Queen, consisting of fourteen addresses between Bathurst [...]

Waves eroding the tip of the Toronto Islands. A project to keep it from eroding will cost around $14 million, thus reminding us all once again that attempting to combat the effects of Mother Nature is a horribly costly experience, as anybody who has ever bought a jar of Oil of Olay knows full well. [...]

If you were a child passing through Toronto since the early 1970s, there’s a good chance you may have eaten at The Old Spaghetti Factory. Kitschy antique decor, the pots of whipped garlic butter that arrived with the loaf of bread and a family-friendly atmosphere have kept the crowds coming for nearly four decades. The [...]

Torontoist finished Book 7 last night, and we’re feeling a little down about the Harry Potter saga being over. Sure, everything turned out alright (and Mrs. Weasley said the B-word!) but we can’t help feeling like the wizarding world no longer needs our support. Under normal circumstances, we would be binge eating and watching Prisoner [...]

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. [...]

Not only are you eating rice noodles out of that Styrofoam takeout container, you may be feeding yourself tasty carcinogens. Oh, and you’ll pollute the environment when you toss the container in the garbage (or on the sidewalk, for all the difference it makes). Of course, that won’t matter if the styrene in the Styrofoam [...]

All this controversy surrounding the notion of gating alleyways (the offending video has since been removed) reminded us of a project that was never announced: Name Your Lane. The initiative calls attention to the condition of our alleys in Toronto, and asks citizens to name them as a positive first step in turning these spaces [...]

If it weren’t for our life as an -ist, we’re not sure we’d ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that’s what we’re all about this week. Phillyist keeps it fresh by getting a new motto, [...]

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddy for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They’re also throwing Butterstick the panda [...]

Green blog TreeHugger wants to hear about environmentalism in Toronto. They’ve already asked Portland and Austin and both posts were enlightening. As far as we can tell Portland is a bike mecca with bad pizza and Mexican food and Austin has lots of people using windpower but wicked bad sprawl. The ever inquisitive writers and [...]