If you've ever dreamed of controlling a brave green pig saving his village from monsters by tossing snot, today's release of an iOS game called Gesundheit is a dream come true. Four years in the making, the game is the first for Toronto illustrator and animator Matt Hammill, who says his art style was influenced by National Film Board classics like Cat Came Back, Log Driver's Waltz, and Blackfly. Even for those who hadn't considered seasonal allergies a boon to solving puzzles, there is much to love about Hammill's whimsical and playful game.

A few weeks ago, Twitter celebrated its fifth birthday. Back in 2006, no one—not even the creators—could have imagined how the micro-blogging site would blow up in popularity nor how it would evolve. Twitter users have seen its usefulness as a channel for news distribution, but also that it can become cluttered with people’s random [...]

If you were strong enough to have eschewed the allure of last week’s Torontoist Gamercamp preview piece because you don’t like playing video games, congratulations! Your resistance allowed you to miss out on some pretty sweet cupcake action on Saturday. Way to go! On the other hand, for those of you gamers who wanted to [...]

Mark Rabo and Jaime Woo share a hearty laugh over the mad ass-whooping they’re going to unleash upon all who dare to oppose them. Photo courtesy of Jaime Woo. If snacks and unlimited arcade freeplay are relevant to your interests, you might want to read on. This Saturday (and on Ossington, no less), there will [...]

It’s a strange, perhaps undesirable, thing to admit to, but Torontoist spends a lot of time thinking about R. Kelly. Generally it comes down to one core question that we just can’t answer (nor do we think we ever will): Is R. Kelly a genius or a lunatic? Here is a man who has produced [...]

The first time Torontoist encountered Dave Meslin was at the August 2004 Trampoline Hall at the AGO’s Walker Court. Ostensibly speaking about “Drinking Games,” Mez instead develivered a speech about his first experiences with alcohol, the hegemony of mixed drinks, and the backwardness of the cup half-empty, half-full metaphor. It was one of the most [...]

If you like Honda Civics modded with blue neon, enormous spoilers and V-Tech stickers, you’re gonna love what’s happening to Toronto’s most iconic structure. Management of Canada’s National Tower (formerly the Canadian National Tower) have begun testing the unfortunate new animated LEDs that were recently installed, dramatically transforming a brilliant exercise in modernist subtlety into [...]

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and [...]

There are two big things going on in the world of education this week. The first is The National Inner City Conference 2007. Sponsored by the Toronto School District Board and the Ontario Institute of Education Centre for Urban Schooling, the focus is on helping city kids get learned. One of the major criticisms of [...]

Toronto student Soohyun Park took top prize at the CanSpell Cup nashional spelling bee. Her corect spelling of ‘hypobulia’ trumped ‘cerumen’ and ‘moiety’. A Virginia Tech student gunned down 33 of his classmates yesterday, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Shortly after 3:00 a.m., a three alarm fire gutted a house at Spadina and [...]

If you use the RSS feed reader Bloglines to read Torontoist, please keep reading. If you don’t, please ignore this message. It has been intentionally back-dated to keep it off our front page. About two weeks ago, almost half of our posts simply stopped showing up in Bloglines. While we thought this was an isolated [...]

For the past four years, La Carrera has been busy turning itself into a Harbord Village institution. Everyone recognizes the bright orange bike shop across from Central Tech and next to The Original Patty Deluxe. Torontoist admits we were a bit dismayed when we saw the “We’re Moving” in their window, but delighted when we [...]