Antonia Zerbisias is back! After the fade-out of Azerbic, the smart, entertaining and well-loved blog she wrote for The Star, she's just recently returned with a new blog, Broadsides. For those who are uninitiated in the ways of this fierce and funny columnist, she is a regular contributor to The Star's Living section. Now, it's irksome that the topics she regularly discusses––which typically include current issues tied to women's rights and freedoms––are relegated to......

One of the first things aspiring journalists learn is to keep themselves out of the story, if not completely, then as much as possible. "No one cares about you," is how one editor once put it. But with only a small portion of questions posed and stories heard actually making it to print, journalists are often full of great anecdotes and hilarious insights that never get a proper audience. Also, they often like to......

Yesterday, in a last-ditch attempt to guilt Liberals into supporting the extension of two controversial "anti-terror" laws, Stephen Harper trotted out for the media two Canadian women who lost family members in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. In case we had forgotten what 9/11 looked like, CTV Newsnet, as part of its reportage on the matter, helpfully replayed images from that day—complete with the chyron seen above and at right. Last summer......

D.B. Scott over at the Canadian Magazines blog has noticed that The Star's Antonia Zerbisias has stopped blogging. Zerbisias was an absolute blog trooper, posting frequently on this country's often hilarious media scene. Unlike other prominent bloggers, Zerbisias left comments back to her readers, and for that she must be commended. We're well aware of just how tiresome sifting through angry, illiterate sometimes even hateful comments can be. We're also well aware that despite......

All this recent talk about the Docks losing their liquor license has everyone talking about noise complaints and the densification of the city. Living right in the heart of Downtown Toronto and near a sports club that thinks it's appropriate to open their large street facing windows and blare really terrible jock-rock at 1:00 am, Torontoist is pretty familiar with the noise complaint process. Most of the time the noise stops within an hour when......

Sorry George, but the reviews are in and the One just plain sucks. The ABC produced, CBC simulcasted Idol/Next Top Model/Big Brother mashup sucks so much that the National (which was actually bumped forward an hour) managed to get almost three times the number of viewers. The One just managed to pull 236,000 viewers compared to the National which pulled in a respectable 550,000+ viewers. Antonia Zerbisias goes on at length at the show's shortcomings.......

What would the Olympics be without Brian Williams? Apparently someone at CTV asked the same question and didn't like the answer. So not only has the CBC lost the TV rights to the 2010 Winter games in Vancouver they'll also be losing the man who had anchored their Olympic coverage for three decades. We chose to read the Star's story on this first because they weren't directly involved in the coup. We also point you......

Torontoist was visiting Dora Keogh's pub for the first monthly CommonPlaces drinks night, when he noticed a sign for the Ben Chin Meet and Greet. It seems that everybody's favourite Liberal candidate was going to be having a minor campaign event. Torontoist would have to say that Chin was an absolute gentleman, he even spoke to us about how impressed he was with his riding association, "one that couldn't put together an event for 15......

TO's got its own little one woman Huffpost in the Star's Antonia Zerbisias. Get ready for the Star media maven's music picks, or 'chick licks,' as she so, uh, cleverly, calls them. Mildly frightening, but TOist knows you're all very strong people. - Meanwhile, The Star's attempts at multi-media savvy continue apace. John Sakamoto, formerly of the terrific Eye Anti-hit list, and presently of the Sunday Star, podcasts his way through the usual stuff. Podcasts,......