If you’d like weekly emails full of Toronto literary listings, sign up at Patchy Squirrel, a new offering from Stuart Ross and Dani Couture. Stuart launches a new collection of poetry, I Cut My Finger (Anvil Press) with Kate Sutherland's All In Together Girls (fiction from Thistledown Press) Sunday, April 22, 8 p.m. at Clintons Tavern (back room), 693 Bloor West. For a monthly overview of the Toronto scene and beyond, Word: Canada’s Magazine for......

We're happy to see that former Torontoist contributor J. Kelly Nestruck and former Torontoist editor Alison Broverman have started up the Theatre Eaters, a new blog over at the National Post dedicated to theatre. It'll be like he said/she said but for theatre geeks, we hope. Posts include their roundups of Summerworks and Canadians representin' at the Edinburgh International Festival.......

Despite winning an armful of Dora's, poor ticket sales and a lukewarm critical reception means that the Lord of The Rings musical will be dying an untimely death come September, less than six months after it opened. Producer David Wallace blamed it on the show's British sensibility which we unsophisticated Canadians are just not able to understand. Ok, we paraphrased this last bit. He also blames Toronto critics, many of whom gave the production only......

Fellow Torontoist contributor Alison Broverman is currently in Australia which has made the rest of us here at Torontoist HQ a little bummed out and on days like today, very jealous. Fortunately we get a bit of a consolation prize. The Australian Trade Commission has organized the first Australian Film Weekend. Australia's film scene, blessed by distance from the US and a supportive government has had a history of creating good work and of creating......