- Shameless mag launch, with performances by Republic of Safety and Cougar Party. "Screenings of horror shorts and scenes from horror classics by Filmmaker/Video DJ James King, on-site makeovers by our team of professional special-effects makeup artists, prizes and more," all taking place on Sunday at the rapidly swankifying Gladstone hotel. - Toronto Life's latest issue contains the disembodied heads of Montreal band Broken Social Scene. But it's online edition has former IFOA authors......

- Word on the Street this Sunday. And this year's line-up looks great. The site doesn't say when each author will speak (annoying) so you'll just have to make a day of it. TOist crush D Bez will be at the Toronto Book Award tent, along with Paul Smith spokesman Russell Smith. Sheila Heti, David Layton and numerous others will read. And TOist, along with a handful of great local bloggers, will participate in......

We've never seen a soul enter or exit the Metro Theatre. It's dusty exterior has remained the same, day in and day out, as Little Seoul passes it by uninterested. But what's with the seventies-era instant coffee machine chained to the blue picture theatre's facade? Do the phantoms that haunt the place really need a jolt of circa seventy sanka before watching whatever's on offer? We've long been curious about the coffee machine? Did......

Saturday gave us two questions. What is bylaw enforcement? And why does it wear jeans and drive a pick-up? While other cops get fancy uniforms, bylaw officers dress in a style that can at best be deemed rent-a-cop chic. Certain numbers of them began Saturday in a pick-up truck at the top of Spadina, and spent the afternoon proceeding in a southerly fashion, upturning tables of bootlegged DVDs and tossing the pirated wares into their......

If this TOist post were an Amazon book page it would say 'Customers who purchased Spellbound also purchased Mad Hot Ballroom.' But it would only say that because every bloody review feels compelled to refer to this doc, about grade school dancers of various socio-economic backgrounds, as the next Spellbound. Maybe it is, but TOist thinks the formula Spellbound + ballroom dancing = Mad Hot Ballroom is a bit simplistic. For once, it would be......

If Globe artster Sarah Milroy's reaction to Christo and Jeanne Claude was any indication, TO will not be entertaining plans for wrapping the Eaton Centre anytime soon. And TOist must breathe a hearty sigh of relief. Though no less than four of our friends did journey southerly, in partial pursuit of a glimpse of saffron, we could not figure the allure. Rows and rows of ugly plastic sheathing, sullying an otherwise lovely place this time......

Where other kids dotted their parents' mantles with piles of softball trophies and best bowler awards, TOist, being about as athletic as a doorknob, never got into the whole awards thing. In fact, we'll cross to the other side of the street to avoid an award ceremony and accompanying drippy speeches, and women 'wearing' things. Luckily, the Bloggies haven't yet booked a night at the Shrine Center. That said, today's the last day to vote......