Whether we like it or not, some of us will be in Toronto all summer, with nary a trip or vacation elsewhere in sight. As a remedy, we’ve created Tourist. Every weekend morning, bright and early, of the summer we’re featuring a photo (or two) from a globe-trotting photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Untitled [...]

Sam Sniderman (aka. The Record Man) wants the Sam’s building to be sold to Ryerson University. Unfortunately, this does not comply with the conspiracy to turn every store on Yonge Street into a discount shoe outlet or nail salon. Sorry. Toronto couldn’t handle a dirty bomb. According to a federal study, “the explosion of a [...]

Now, although we’re siding with the After Dark Film Festival, there’s entirely the possibility that, you know, you’re a big scaredy-poo-pants and don’t fancy anything there. Which makes it very lucky that there are about nine other festivals on this weekend, eh? Continuing festivals include the ImagineNative Film Festival, the Cuban Cinema Film Festival, the [...]

Torontoist, recently, has been living in the early 70’s. Or at least it feels like it. Having only just read Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 we wonder if the American electorate will be doomed to make the same mistakes forever, and having had the chance to see some of [...]

After bringing us the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and Krzysztof Kieslowski this past summer, the fall season of Cinematheque Ontario begins on October 6th. The programme features a series of films by Terry Gilliam, including his latest, Tideland (not screened in Toronto since TIFF 05), and Brazil, introduced by the director himself. The films of [...]

We finally got around to seeing CanStage‘s anachronistic (and possibly mid-life crisis-induced) production of Hair last night. As the photos in the adverts promise, the cast is young, gorgeous, and sometimes scantily clad. The tagline in the adverts (“Now More Than Ever”) is less accurate, however. Hair is very much a product of its time, [...]

For those interested in ‘it’-specific events, this Tall Poppy is for you. The Boat, the venerable ‘It’ club in Kensington Market, is the site of an increasingly popular monthly dance party called Zoi Zoi, the venerable ‘It’ DJ night in Toronto. If that wasn’t enough ‘It’s, resident DJ Mimi plays what has become the ‘It’ [...]

Full disclosure: Torontoist kind of loves Billy Joel. At the age of 8, we memorized almost all the lyrics to We Didn’t Start the Fire and chanted it regularly around the house – we had no idea what “children of thalidomide” meant, but we sure liked the sound of “space monkey mafia.” We occasionally drift [...]