Fauxreel's pairing with Vespa to produce street art ads has always been contentious; as Carl Wilson pointed out in last month's Toronto Life, the intersection of street art and money-making is messy as hell. While one Toronto tagger took matters into their own hands to protest the corporate backing, and one Toronto book store threw their ad on top of Vespa's, others have participated in the discussion by literally changing the subject: a Montreal......

Last night's town hall meeting was an auspicious birth ceremony for the week-old Department of Culture. Speaker Naomi Klein termed it a “movement moment” and member Darren O'Donnell could only say “Holy fuck!” to the attendance, as more than triple the expected number of people crowded into the AC-less Theatre Centre. Leaflets were used by every member of the crowd to cool themselves while community leaders stirred existing anger at the Harper government. “You......

ART: This month's exhibit at the Steam Whistle Brewing Gallery is called "It Figures" and celebrates the human form through varied and unique artistic interpretations. The artists featured this month are Michael Tenaglia, Aurora Pagano, Jessica Gorlicky, and Jacqueline Okuhara. There is an opening reception tonight for the exhibit, with the artists in attendance. Steam Whistle Brewing Gallery (255 Bremner Boulevard), 6 p.m., FREE. WORDS: This Is Not A Reading Series continues this evening......

MUSIC: David Berman and the rest of his Silver Jews are stopping by Lee's Palace tonight as part of their North American tour. They're joined by Boston rock group Hallelujah The Hills. Lee's Palace (529 Bloor Street West), 9 p.m., $15. THEATRE: The Dora Award–winning production of Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched is being remounted briefly at Tarragon Theatre, after a successful run in February 2007. The show is directed by Richard Rose, and runs until......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By Fauxreel/Vespa, Artist Unknown/SWPE BooksNEAR QUEEN AND BEVERLEYPHOTO BY GALA......

.shadowRollover { width:640px; height:872px; float:left; background-image:url(http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_david/20080827lostfound2.jpg); display:block; } .shadowRollover:hover { display:block; background-image:url(http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_david/20080827lostfound.jpg); } Discovered on Pape Avenue south of Dundas Street East by Torontoist Flickr Pooler squeakyrat (also responsible for this great discovery), there are at least a few other signs like these in the east end of the city. Corny? Yes. Pretty adorable? That too. Rollover the image to switch between the "Lost" and "Found" posters. Photos by squeakyrat from the Torontoist Flickr......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artists UnknownAT QUEEN AND SPADINAPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

The Globe says at least $40 million of it is going to "2010 Olympic and Paralympic torch relays; the Road to Excellence program, which supports Summer Olympics athletes; and the Action Plan for Official Languages, which promotes bilingualism." And here we were, thinking that filling holes in one thing by creating holes in another was sort of a bad idea. [via CanCult]......

ART: Photographer/former photo editor of Vice Magazine Tim Barber is celebrating the release of his new limited-edition art and book series, TV Books, adapted from his online art gallery Tiny Vices. Tonight's opening reception is being held at Studio Gallery and will feature appearances by Tim Barber and some of the other Tiny Vices artists. Studio Gallery (294A College Street), 7 p.m., FREE. THEATRE: The Red Light District's production of Witold Gonbrowicz's awkward love story......

ART: Art enthusiast groups City of Craft and the workroom have organized a kid-friendly crafts fair, happening today in Parkdale. Both the workroom (1340 Queen Street West) and the Good Catch General Store (1556 Queen Street West) are having craft sales, each with fifteen local vendors selling their wares. DIY store Shopgirls Gallery Boutique (1342 Queen Street West) will be having a workshop on making sock monkeys, and you can either donate your sock monkey......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownAT QUEEN AND LANDSDOWNEPHOTO BY JOHN SLATCHER......

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve. Hug Tree BY IZAK_NEUTRON......

LECTURE: Dr. Marianne Sommer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is giving a lecture called "Popular Primates: A Time-Travel Through National Geographic." The talk is a reflection on the history of National Geographic, and how public interest in primates has been shaped since the publication's inception in 1888. Hosted by broadcaster Erika Ritter. OISE (252 Bloor Street West), 6 p.m., $20. THEATRE: The last hurrah of local actor/musician Henry Svec's musical/comedy project The Boy......

Spacing reports on the fate of the Hug Me tree at Queen Street West and Peter Street after it was found knocked down yesterday. After narrowly avoiding being hacked up by the City's Forestry department, the tree is back—intact—in the hands of Elicser, the artist who had been painting it for the past few years, thanks in part to a woman whose husband proposed to her in front of the tree six years ago.......

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve. Gas Mask Deer BY J IS FOR JETSETTER......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By GRAMS IN SNEAKY DEES PHOTO BY POST......

FESTIVAL: Toronto's annual Taste of the Danforth festival returns tonight and runs until Sunday. Along with the usual smorgasbord of excellent Greek food come expected crowds of over 500,000, and a healthy serving of ambivalence. Danforth Avenue from Broadview Avenue to Jones Avenue, 6 p.m., FREE. INTERNET: Inspired by last year's mass YouTube community gathering in New York, the Ontario Science Centre is holding Canada's first large-scale YouTube meetup. Besides the usual attractions at......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artists UnknownON IGOR KENK'S BICYCLE CLINICPHOTOS BY ZUKEEPER......

People are scamming the city's parking machines to the tune of $1 million per year. Apparently you can use an expired pre-paid credit card to park for free because the machines don't check to see if the cards have credit left on them. The Toronto Parking Authority has known about this since 1998, but hasn't done anything because what the hell—it's only money. Federal industry minister Jim Prentice isn't happy about cellular companies charging......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By RCADENEAR KING AND SHAW PHOTO BY SIMON......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By KATSUNEAR RICHMOND AND McDOUGALLPHOTO BY POST......

Comic book panels bursting with rippling muscles and bulging breasts, a guaranteed sight at this weekend's Toronto Comicon (at the Holiday Inn, 377 King Street West), might be more than a Captain Underpants–obsessed kid normally sees. In an attempt to cater to older fans with children—and nurture a new generation of DC-obsessives—this year’s Comicon will feature a Comics for Kids area for children under 12 (who, consequently, can attend free with an adult). The......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownIN AN ALLEY BEHIND BLOOR, NEAR ALBANYPHOTO BY BRUISED EGO......

Posterchild has taken a brief respite from making wonderful street art (did you see his latest guerilla gardening boxes?) to make...dolls?! Yes, Post—long obsessed with the astronaut/space travel motif—made himself a dead astronaut costume at the end of 2006 and has since put up some pieces wearing it. Now, with the help of his mom (who taught him to sew) and his ex-girlfriend (who gave him a sewing machine), he's "adapted and shrunken his suit......

So, you're already choosing your outfit for this year's Nuit Blanche, right? Making predrink plans with your art buff besties? Getting extra sleep in advance—almost three months in advance? Google Mapping your routes and rendezvous points? Um, right. But since the program for the third annual all-night art orgy was eagerly announced this morning, we thought we might as well tell you...that we are terrified. Seriously, we're pretty sure that (Scotiabank) Nuit Blanche 3.0......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown and BOOKSAT GLEN BAILLIEPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Photo by Dimsumdarren from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. A long-running question on Torontoist asks when graffiti can be tolerated. The sticking point isn't whether graffiti artists occasionally produce good art. Toronto's best-known piece of graffiti—a rainbow painted on a tunnel by the Don Valley Parkway—inspired Peter Doig's painting, "Country Rock," which in turn became the cover piece for an acclaimed exhibition in London. Worldwide, consider these murals, three-dimensional chalk drawings, and dirty window art.......

The wheatpaste of Fathima Fahmy was the first to go up just over a month ago. Two stories tall, it stands on the side of a newly-vacant apartment building slated for demolition in the heart of Regent Park. Since then, ten other larger-than-life portraits of other residents like her—those living in the fleet of low-rise buildings that are to be torn down and built on top of as part of Toronto Community Housing's $1 billion......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By TeethAT DUNDAS AND MARKHAMPHOTO BY TEETH......

The art world is abuzz with eco-friendly, small-footprint art. From Santa Fe to our own little urban oasis, enviro-art is where it's at. One such green group at the fore is Ecotecture, a charitable organization working out of the Deleon White Gallery space (the gallery that brought you crazy films and Microsoft fantasies). Ecotecture's mandate states that they "offer a public forum to those working through questions of sustainability and facilitate the exhibition of......