Today: have lunch while examining fine art, score Leafs tickets with usually useless knowledge, see veteran singer-songwriters guest before weekly showcases at the Drake and Dakota, and watch comics be introduced by an MC who ripped on their sets as a judge last week.

This has meaning on so many levels. Long-term relationships are tough. Favourite bands can fade away. Romantic interests, well, they leave you lonely. But for some reason, for many of us, there will always be a place in our hearts for a bunch of bug-eyed, yellow-skinned, four-fingered oddballs, and a little town they call Springfield. [...]

Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie. You would assume that headline to be ironic and for some of the items listed herein to begin with “That Americans think that…” And indeed that’s the post we hoped to write when we decided to take a Hippo Tour. But this being the end of the season (tours run from [...]

On Sunday night, Team Bloggers kicked some cab driver and celebrity impersonator ass on CBC’s Test the Nation: Trivia. The evening ended with the cleanest sweep in quiz show history: bloggers had the best team score with an average of 50; team captain Samantha Bee had the highest score of all the Canadian celebs; teammate [...]

When New York City billionaire Leona Helmsley died in 2007, who inherited her $12-million trust fund? If you said a white Maltese terrier named Trouble, you may want to tune in to CBC television at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20th for Test the Nation: Trivia. The quiz show, now in its third edition, pits [...]

Torontoist, which loves its street art, has now created a separate category for it. We’ll call it ‘Vandals’ but then we’ll add an exclaimation mark (‘!’) to denote ironicism in some instances and anger in others. Clever, no? Here we have a Salt-N-Pepa fan who would like to see more edge from the Globe & [...]