If you've ever lamented the absence of business-savvy and hygiene-obsessed superheroes at your local community barbecue, today is your lucky day. From 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. this afternoon, the Clean Freak Patrol will be on duty in Allan Gardens, making sure attendees of Health Minister George Smitherman's barbecue "spread the word, not the germs." What word do they want us to be spreading? A look at their ironically cluttered website explains it all.......

Once a year Toronto the Good becomes Toronto the very naughty. FFN (formerly known as Folsom Fair North) is Toronto's annual fetish fair. Now in its fifth year, the Fair features everything from play areas and parties to an art tent. Festivities kick off July 20 with the Welcome to Toronto party, being held at Alibi. The next night is Agitator, FFN’s big deal sports-themed fetish blowout at the Opera House. The FFN web......

This is an image of a Buddha Machine. If you have one, you ought to bring it to Ambient Ping's Zen Garden Party tomorrow afternoon in the south-western greenhouse at the Allan Gardens Conservatory to "help create a moving sound-in-space experience." If you don't have one, it's alright—they're optional and you're still welcome to come and enjoy the experience. If you would like one, they can be obtained at Soundscapes. This is all happening on......

The Allan Gardens Conservatory, situated on the quaintly named Horticultural Avenue (at Carlton between Jarvis and Sherbourne), is a surprising oasis in the middle of a desert of asphalt and high-rises. Until January 1st, the Conservatory is host to the Christmas Flower Show 2006, where visitors can stroll through a sea of poinsettias and check out a Rudolph fashioned out of plants. A Christmas soundtrack is piped throughout the connected greenhouses, and if you go......

Police are on the hunt for two men who allegedly shot a man dead in a second-floor apartment at Church and Dundas last night. They believe that security footage from nearby Ryerson campus may also hold some leads. The shooting of a woman outside an Etobicoke sports bar a couple of days ago gets weirder. Turns out police think that the murderer was lying in wait for her and also that the gun used had......