Photo from Paetec Music Tour. One of history's greatest voices will be serenading the Sony Centre tonight as Al Green kicks off the Downtown Jazz Festival. After taking a very long break, The Reverend has been busy in the past few years. He recruited ?uestlove of The Roots for help on the just released Lay It Down. Although there will be plenty of new songs, we hope that Green struts his stuff on classics......

Ban there, done that. In lieu of the City of Chicago's ban on foie gras, Toronto and our various bans seem a lot less authoritarian. In fact, we would venture to say our city is substantially lagging in the ban game. To make ourselves feel better about this, Torontoist has put together a list of memorable bans, almost bans and future bans for the city. Since there is no comprehensive list of banned items (that......

Torontoist has always had close ties to the rap community, but none moreso than bumping into meathead G-Unit star 50 Cent this weekend. Okay, we didn't actually "bump" into Cent - we just heard he was in the city. Cinquante is currently filming a biopic, entitled Get Rich or Die Tryin', around the Sherbourne and Howard intersection. At the nearby Sherbourne and Bleeker, the Cent people have changed the street signs to "Webster & 169......