Nathan Phillips Square, earlier this fall. Photo by Benson Kua from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The forty-two-million-dollar revitalization of Nathan Phillips Square is scheduled to be completed in 2012, at which point the Square will be a better (or at least a more newly renovated) public space than it has ever been before. In the [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Ken Daley’s Sunday Morning, viewable this week at the “Beyond the Rhythm” art [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. The Big Bop this past weekend. Photo by Miles Storey/Torontoist. END OF AN [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Namastey brings the sights and sounds of Bollywood to this year’s WinterCity Festival. [...]

The Flying Canucks perform in front of City Hall as part of the Wintercity festival.

As part of the Wintercity festival, France’s Cie Carabosse are firing up hundreds of clay pots and metal sculptures, some of which are pleasantly warm to sit on. More images from this fiery spectacular after the jump. All photos by Miles Storey

Feeling S.A.D.? Toronto’s Christmas spirit wore off weeks ago and waiting outside for the streetcar has become more face-numbing than going to the dentist. Thankfully, the City of Toronto is stepping in to cure us of our winter blahs by organizing the 5th annual WinterCity Festival, which runs from January 25 to February 7 in [...]

Andy Warhol’s Factory parties were the ultimate hot spot for an elite cabal of celebrities, radicals, drag queens and porn stars. There has never been a better place to rock out while on an amphetamine high amid mass-produced silkscreen paintings and a fleet of floating silver balloons. Now, just replace Warhol’s notorious gang of New [...]

Today is the last chance to see Gordon Halloran’s stunning Paintings Below Zero ice art installation at Nathan Phillips Square as part of the WinterCity festivities, so get down there already! Halloran’s unique technique involves arranging coloured panels of ice into abstract shapes that emphasize the ice’s texture and natural crystalline structures. The piece evolves [...]

WARNING: The following report may shock and offend some readers. The Toronto Hug Coalition, one of many local factions of the global Free Hugs Campaign, claimed full responsibility for Saturday afternoon’s Hug Day uprising at Nathan Philips Square. Total strangers of all ages made eye contact, shyly said hello, and HUGGED each other while a [...]