POETRY: For the final Toronto Poetry Slam of 2011, organizers are bringing in Deonte Osayande to perform. He’s the the man behind (and in front of, as host) the Roses and Revolutions Poetry Slam in Detroit, and he represented his city on Detroit’s team at the 2011 U.S. National Poetry Slam Championship. Unlike most slam [...]

Toronto Zoo to go green. The Zoo will now focus on biodiversity and sustainability while presenting animals from around the world in small, depressing, joke-like habitats that offer a crude mockery of how the animals would prefer to live, focusing on the fact that while their lives in the zoo might suck, at least nobody [...]

As the 20th Century dawned, Danforth Avenue was a muddy road that served as the northern boundary for the eastern portions of the city of Toronto. Between 1909, when the city made its first major annexation on the north side of Danforth, and the appearance of today's ads in 1921, the area we now know as "The Danforth" rapidly changed from a semi-isolated mix of farmland, villages and church reserves to a series of...

Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We’re especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you’ve got. TreaTz BY STILLSINFLUX Cream [...]

Why Not Theatre‘s production of Hamlet, currently playing at the Winchester Street Theatre, bills itself as an interpretation of everyone’s favourite tragedy so new and different that it has taken an alternate title: The Prince Hamlet. But rather than some from-Mars production full of black leather and dance-breaks you might expect to find at the [...]

I love the smell of police raid in the morning. Toronto Vice arrested 60 people in the Jane and Finch area this morning in a raid called Project Kryptic. They seized “30 kilos of cocaine, hash oil and marijuana with an estimated street value of $1 million” from the Driftwood Crips. That’s actually pretty badass. [...]

Now that the weather is heating up, it’s the time of the year when our music tastes start turning towards those short, infectious pop songs that encapsulate the spirit of the season. On his latest release, If We’re Not Talking, Vivek Shraya has created a sexy ode to electropop that’s loaded with catchy choruses that [...]

We here at Torontoist are always fans of new campaigns to boost our fair city’s reputation, but the problem is that most of these campaigns are, shall we say, kind of pathetic. No, actually — not “kind of.” They’re just pathetic. Almost universally they cast Toronto as a handy convenient replacement for some other city [...]