For anyone who missed this year's Massey Lecture last Friday at U of T, don't fret. The City of Words, by celebrated writer, essayist, novelist, and anthologist Alberto Manguel, will be broadcast on CBC Radio One's IDEAS each night at 9:00 p.m. beginning Monday, November 5 running to Friday, the 9th. As a new feature this year, each of the five lectures (unedited and complete with audience discussion) will be available for download starting......

Originally published by Viking Press in 1957, Jack Kerouac's On the Road has been wearing holes in the back pockets and floppy canvas knapsacks of gaggles of come-find-yourself road trippers and college-aged who-am-I types ever since. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of its publication, Wednesday night will see the Gladstone play host to something of a symposium on the life and legacy of their main man, Kerouac. Authors Ray Robertson and David Creighton will......

Photo by bitefight from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Torontoist has a soft spot in our heart for CBC Radio One. We kind of want Stuart McLean to be our grandfather, we can often be seen funking out and/or singing along to the addictive theme song of The Current, and we think that Jian Ghomeshi is just dreamy. The summer, however, brings strange and disturbing changes to everyone’s favourite public broadcaster—the summer schedule, full of......

Yesterday, the Lakeview Generating Station in Port Credit was demolished as crowds looked on. Toronto usually gets weepy over the destruction of buildings, but the station was a pretty ugly example of Soviet-era industrial architecture and it was powered by coal. Are you going to miss it? Andy Barrie, host of CBC Radio One's Metro Morning, has early-stage Parkinson's. Three men have been charged with pimping out a 17-year-old girl at strip clubs and......

MP Peggy Nash and MPP Cheri DiNovo protest the closing of Toronto's swimming pools. At 8:30 this morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at the corner of Keele Street and Glenlake Avenue to save their community pool slated for closure next month. Extremely fit-looking senior citizens with youthful energy wore bathing suits, goggles, and swim caps. Young children, chanting “Save our pools! Save our pools!” waved signs which read, “Swim skills save children’s lives,” and......

Despite Canada's love-hate relationship with the CBC, we're big fans of York theatre grad Barbara Budd. Budd has co-hosted CBC Radio One's venerable As It Happens since 1993, and the Toronto-based show is known across Canada and satellite radio for its off-the-wall take on current events. Probably the show's most cringingly infamous clip is from 1976, when Barbara Frum is goaded into profanity, trying in vain to interview a hard-of-hearing British farmer about the world's......

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts, the organization wants us to get involved in their "50 for 50" Arts Challenge. Canadians are invited to meet the challenge by engaging in 50 arts-related activities over the course of the year. Do not fret if you’ve neglected the arts since Jan 1 due to laziness and winter hibernation; there's still ample time to reach the goal in the 45 weeks that......

Hey Toronto! Today is the launch event for the first ever Humanitas Festival, "A festival of what was, is and could be Toronto". Starting at 6pm at the Cooler By The Lake Tent at the foot of Yonge Street, at the water’s edge, you can come on down and Join Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, NOW Magazine’s Alice Klein and CBC Radio One 99.1 host Garvia Bailey......

In honour of Jane Jacobs CBC Radio One's Ideas will be re-airing their programs on Dark Age Ahead, her last work. The book describes how cultures decline and dead end and why our society might be sliding into a dark hole that might not be so easy to get out of. Part one of the the program airs tonight at 9:00. Half an hour later in Newfoundland (we don't get to say that often on......

Some links for tomorrow, some for today, some forever. - The winner of CBC Radio One's Poetry Face-Off is announced tomorrow at 2:30 pm. - The Princess of Rock and ex-Queen of Pop comes to T.O. - This is some weird video from the R'n'R N. - Martha Wainwright's album, which is of the self-titled variety, came out yesterday, but that shouldn't stop you from checking out something off her ginormous new album. Ginormous is......