Photo by EIFF. Next week on October 17th, the International Festival of Authors will kick off its 28th year since its inception in 1980 at the Premiere Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). Incorporating some of the best contemporary world literature, the festival is comprised of eleven days and nights of readings, interviews, round-table discussions, lectures, and book signings—not to mention special event readings by Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists.......

Matt Stajan was eight years old the last time Pat Quinn was considered to be the NHL's best coach. That's right... this season will mark fourteen years since Quinn was at the top of the game. So with the way things unfolded for the Maple Leafs and Team Canada this year, one might expect him to quietly disappear into retirement. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. Although Torontoist may not be a big......

What would be worse: Watching Laura Prepon as Karla Homolka in Deadly, or watching Plague City, a "medical thriller [that] humanizes the struggle of heroic health care workers during SARS crisis"? From the sounds of each, it's like choosing between eating diarrhea or drinking pee. Now that's pretty gross. But if we had to drink pee, we'd probably consume a little drop each day, perhaps adding some to our milk or apple sauce to ease......

Around the time Belinda Stronach kartwheeled over to the Liberals, former eye Editor Bert Archer was noting the lack of attractiveness of our current crop of MP's. Although Torontoist was vocal in our objections to the exclusivitey of the Archer list, we did notice a similarly shallow pool of honeys in the Hill Times Sexiest MP's poll. But now that it's summer, and the ties are loosened and underwear left in the top drawer, Torontoist......