Braggadocio is a pretty well-accepted part of hip-hop culture. We expect rappers to talk about why they’re the best, and we tend to get a little disappointed if they don’t. That said, brag raps are inherently dangerous, because the only thing that disappoints an audience more than a total lack of boasting is an MC [...]

Had they not been so passionate and vocal, the over-200 residents at last night’s public transit forum at Scarborough Civic Centre might have been mistaken with fans at a Leafs home game. Jeers, curses, and objections flowed from the packed, subway-boosting crowd inside the former Scarborough council chamber, and from spectators watching the raucous panel [...]

Although it didn’t last, the initial vibe at this past Sunday’s Respect Scarborough town hall meeting on transit at Malvern Public Library was collegial, with hardly a whiff of the apparent controversy surrounding transit upgrades in the city’s east end. When moderator and U of T student Guled Arale assured the more than 100 attendees [...]

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. Toronto [...]

Most of us are still reeling from the outcome of the 2010 municipal election, but not Rob Shirkey. On Monday, the 32-year-old lawyer announced, in a 13-minute video he posted to his personal website, that he’d left the legal profession to concentrate on running for Ward 36′s council seat—in 2014. His platform, at this point, [...]

By any measure in the rather narrow definition of today’s common currency, I am a member of the downtown elite—by which I mean I live downtown and I’m not on board with Mayor Rob Ford’s agenda. Full stop. This place I thought of as my home and the lifestyle that came with it, the ease [...]

Good things are growing in some unlikely places in Scarborough. Picture a local schoolyard and rooftop where fresh vegetables are being cultivated. But don’t just picture lettuce and tomatoes; these east-end gardens are growing much more than that. They are home to a harvest of okra, callaloo, Asian eggplant, and yard-long beans—crops that are more [...]

Behind a nondescript plaza in Scarborough that's otherwise filled with shady massage joints, there's a small building housing a food court. If you like spicy Asian street food, it's worth the trek to check out Gourmet Garden Malaysian and Singaporean Cuisine.

Motorists line up at Costco’s gas station at its Scarborough location. Over the past couple months, Costco, the members-only wholesaler better known for its massive quantities of just about everything, added gasoline to its product line by opening gas stations at its Etobicoke and Scarborough locations. What’s resulted could best be described as utter insanity. [...]

Photo by Kasandra Bracken/Torontoist. “When you see eight large columns and three heads of Zeus, you will know you have arrived in the correct spot.” Not an excerpt from your typical Saturday night show stub. And unless you’ve recently taken some wedding photos, not a place where you’d typically head from downtown (because we folks [...]