The TTC wants to get rid of adult tickets, using only tokens for adults to combat counterfeiters. In a move to placate ticket fans, Adam Giambrone promises to look into ways to create tokens that will be ruined when you forget to take them out of your pants and put them through the washing machine. [...]

On the opening track of Pink Martini‘s latest album, lead singer China Forbes croons, “Everywhere I go, I see a world designed for you and me”—and every time you spin the record, you hear songs from all over the world. This Saturday, one lone performance at Massey Hall will echo in a mass of different [...]

It’s almost time for the Toronto International Film Festival for Children, Sprockets (it runs this year from April 12th to 18th) and the complete line-up of films has been announced. Once again this year all film journalists will find it impossible to mention the festival without bringing up Mike Myers (after all, it’s was one [...]

Attention residents of the tri-city area: much of the cast of SCTV is reuniting for a single live performance in Toronto on Monday, May 5 at 8 p.m. The occasion is a benefit for the Alumni Fund for Second City cast and crew facing financial or health difficulties. It’s bound to be difficult for the [...]

Forget the snow, it’s time to start planning your summer of cycling. The Toronto–Niagara Bike Train will be returning this year with an expanded schedule, more travel options, and some getaway package deals. Building on last summer’s successful pilot program which saw dozens of cyclists and their bikes riding the train between Toronto and Niagara [...]

One day Pamela Anderson stood in the centre turn lane of a highway, clad only in a Canadian flag…picturing it? Welcome to the lead photo for the “Best of Canada” edition of SNAP!. Now in its seventh year, SNAP! combines a juried competition for established and emerging photographers with a gala fundraiser on March 2 [...]

Have you been looking around for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for that special someone? Nothing says “I love you” like tickets to Star Trek: The Music. Yesterday, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced that their 2007/2008 season finale would be a performance of music from everyone’s favourite sci-fi series (Battlestar Galactica be damned!). On June [...]

Have you ever wondered what you could learn from a computer pioneer? You’ll have your chance to find out when Michael Dell rolls into town for a free speaking engagement at Convocation Hall later this month. Okay, so Dell isn’t exactly a pioneer: he’s famous not for inventing anything, but merely for improving the process [...]

Strap on your tux or taffeta this Friday, February 1 and head down to WhipperSnapper Gallery (587A College Street) for Let’s Get Hitched. The youth art collective throws notoriously awesome shindigs: “Whippersnapper openings are essentially hip house parties,” we said in an article about their last exhibit Push It: “Think Pitchfork-approved background music, College kids [...]