Happy Halloween! This weekend, we've got scary movies at the Underground, a new installation from Ian Wallace, ghoulish Toronto history events, costumey dance parties, a Halloween and Day of the Dead Brick Works celebration, an improv show honouring August Strindberg's moody melodramas, and the annual Halloween show from Fucked Up, with The Sadies.

Overheard in the lobby halfway through the second act of Wicked, the “spellbinding musical” at the Canon Theatre. An usher approaches a couple exiting with their coats. Usher: Is everything alright? Man: Yes. We just couldn’t be in there anymore. Usher: Was there a problem? Woman: There’s just too much singing.

Ah, another week, another Film Friday. But wait! There’s something special this week to break up the monotony! An extra special review of the (heavily delayed) Pulse brought to us by our superhuman photographer and co-editor David Topping. What do you have to say about it, David? Pulse may be both the worst and best [...]

In due time, you’ll be able to fold a map of city in half, with Yonge Street as the crease, and witness the more or less symmetry in Starbucks locations on Queen Street. One Starbucks is on Queen West in Beaconsfield, site of the infamous “Drake you ho this is all your fault” tag of [...]