The sunset view of Toronto’s skyline can be quite lovely. At Cherry Beach, watch as the sun sinks behind the towers of the financial district. It’s a scene both apocalyptic and serene. Illustration by Kevin McBride.

The sun sets and the condos rise . As seen from Spadina and Front. Photo by Miles Storey

The Toronto Star published a good article Sunday revealing that “the city’s Waterfront Secretariat is now reviewing the recommendations and cost estimates of recent waterfront task forces on the fate of the Gardiner.” Torontoist hears you asking, wasn’t this the whole point of the Gardiner Report released last September? Now that the city has all [...]

We know that you have been enjoying the LED lights on the CN Tower, but so far, they have just been ironing out the kinks. Until now. Tonight, June 28, there will be an official lighting ceremony. And it wouldn’t be the world’s largest phallic object freestanding structure that we know and love if it [...]

i (heart) music has just released their list of the 33 hottest bands in Canada for 2006, as selected by a more than forty Canadian music bloggers (including yours truly, current Torontoist contributor Carrie Musgrave, Said the Gramophone, former Torontoist contributor Frank Yang from Chromewaves, and lots of others). We don’t mean to gloat, but [...]

Today’s topic in The Star’s increasingly mundane “20 Questions” feature – where they ask the three biggest mayoral candidates questions about a whole plethora of subjects – was Favourite Movies. Jane Pitfield picked It’s A Wonderful Life, The Sound of Music, and Ben Hur, three great films in three seperate genres that are generally accepted [...]

It seems that any review of the latest Mountain Goats album, Get Lonely, requires at least one personal anecdote. Just look at Pitchfork. In a few sentences, we’ve already discovered the writer’s marital status – engaged! How sweet. Or consider Toronto’s Chromewaves, who proclaims that singer John Darnielle (at left) “is somehow plugged into the [...]

Toronto’s Film Festival is notorious for being “the people’s festival,” where the general public can interact with actors and directors over their work, with celebrity taking only a secondary interest behind the art. Torontonians are likely to point and whisper when we see a famous face breezing through Holt’s instead of running-up for autographs. My [...]

Tsk, tsk. Late two weeks in a row. Someone needs a good spanking. Next week we’ll get our act together and put Torontoist before busy schedules and get this puppy out on time. Pinky swear. As always, let us know in the comments section if you’re heading to any good shows that we missed. Particularly [...]

It’s hot. We conducted a survey on people’s reaction to the heat. A number of folks made comments such as “this fucking heat is fucking unbearable. fuck.” Very few people made remarks such as “the humidex reading of 45 degress Celcius is like a dream come true.” The ratio of heat haters to heat lovers [...]

For a long time, Torontoist used our Mixtape series to nitpick the music issues of the week and offer relevant music in the very same week. An enormous undertaking, we know. But along the way, we got so caught up in making Mixtapes, that we actually became a Mixtape ourselves. Looking back, posting The Bravery [...]