MUSICAL: RENT RENT RENT RENT REEEEENT! Jonathan Larson’s magnum opus returns to Toronto for a month-long run at Lower Ossington Theatre. This musical, based off Puccini’s opera La bohème, tells the tale of a struggling group of bohemians who must come to terms with their own lives and what it truly means to pay rent [...]

Today in Toronto: various vehicles take to the streets as mobile art installations, a selection of new and classic works from Tapestry New Opera, a new staging of Rent in the Annex, and Luminato keeps on truckin'.

The performers in Hasta La Vista Danforth! take their final bow, behind the show’s hosts Jan Caruana and James Gangl (far right). “I want to talk about endings, because endings are weird things,” began Robin Archer, the host of one of the last comedy shows ever to be performed by the Bad Dog Theatre Company [...]

Original production photo from the official Rent website. After taking Broadway by storm back in 1996, Rent was immediately slapped with the “Hair for the ’90s” moniker. It was hailed as a musical that would bring a new audience to the theatre, channelling as it did the anxiety and moral ambiguity of life in America [...]

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. Jim Mezei, Kellen Hatanakam, and Adrian Forrow collaborate in tonight’s “Field Notes” show. [...]

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In Tuesday's news round-up, we told you that the plan to sell McDonald's the land at Bloor and Avenue had been halted until January 18. It's a good thing, too, as there are many questions that must be answered before the $3.38 million sale is finalized. Is it in the best interest for Toronto taxpayers? Is the sale a smart corrective action to the bungled 1971 lease agreement or another dumb move we'll regret for...

Photo by Marc Lostracco. Deliberately confusing customers is big business in Canada, and fudging advertised prices with hidden fees is a hallmark of this particular circle of hell. Consumers can activate their cable television within a day, but can’t cancel it without paying for the following month. Freestanding “independent” ATMs that are actually owned by [...]

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! The photo above, by Torontoist Flickr Pool member Atilla Soylu, jumped right off the page for us. A few [...]

Let’s start with the film festivals for a change, huh? Most intriguing has to be the Toronto International Latin Film Festival, because it’s… on at the Royal Cinema? Que El? It’s interesting to see the old girl is in use again; until now we haven’t heard anything about it, and don’t even know if it’s [...]

Things Montrealers told us about Toronto this weekend: Everyone’s getting shot here. Rent is too expensive. It’s the source of white collar crime. People dress and walk funny here. Things Torontonians told us about Montreal this weekend: There’s nothing to do. It’s a dead city that’s crumbling in on itself. Everyone interesting moved away a [...]