Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Each Sunday, the editors of every site—from LAist to Londonist—choose their most interesting article, a list which is compiled into the network-wide feature Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse. SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others.Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish......

All photos by Kristin Foster. After a blur of relatives, feasts, and gift wrap, some of us have returned to the confines of the office for peace and quiet while others are on the couch. Welcome to the Holiday Hangover! Torontoist told you what was going on for Christmas Day, now we've found a great way of avoiding Boxing Week in the comfort of your own neighbourhood. With 49 outdoor rinks maintained by the......

Oscar Peterson passes at 82. The great jazz musician was a Canadian hero and he did many amazing things, including spending the twilight of his career essentially playing jazz piano one-handed and doing it better than most people who had use of both their hands. Police catch 12-fingered man. Moral: if you have extra fingers, do not try to assault people. It's kind of a dead giveaway. Pope Benedict urges Catholics to "set aside time"......

Really not much on in terms of Christmas films this week. The Bloor is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (which is about as far away from a Christmas classic as we can imagine without being a film about aliens from another galaxy that have never heard of Christmas) and White Christmas. We’re still happy to recommend Enchanted (we just saw it, and it was absolutely lovely), but for those of you who want to......

As is traditional for Christmas Day, most of the news is bad. Starting off: James Brown dead at 73. Quick summary of tasteless jokes: He no longer feels good. He is no longer living in America. God has delivered the big payback. The sex machine has broken down forever. Papa's brand new bag burst. Super bad? Super dead. And so on and so forth, et cetera. One dead after shooting on King Street early......

It's easy to see why people would be excited about Dreamgirls. The film, about the lifespan of a Supremes-esque three-member girl group (and based on the ultra-successful broadway musical of the same name) stars Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, and Danny Glover, and, as it tomorrow Christmas Day here, has the best shot at being the Christmas movie, the 9-digit box-office numbers one that movie studios die for but that hasn't really existed (outside of......

If you're one of those people who doesn't hit the snooze button until five minutes before you actually have to leave for work, you might have caught an interesting announcement this morning on that venerable Canadian news/pap institution known as Canada AM: CTV News has chosen its top ten news stories of 2006. Yes, an "esteemed panel of Canadian journalists," which apparently is CTV's euphemism for their own senior staff, chose ten stories from throughout......

We're experimenting with a new daily photo posting. Each weekday morning, we'll pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! We intentionally left this photo by Robannz (Marc Robin) out of the weekly roundup so we could feature it here in The Daily Photoist. There's great textures and colours here --......

Transit Toronto just helpfully reminded us of the TTC's (and pretty every other GTA-based transit systems') updated holiday schedule. The key things to note for TTC riders: extended peak schedule on Friday the 22nd, Sunday schedule on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (Scarborough riders in particular may want to take note of the change to the SRT's availability on Christmas Eve), Saturday schedule on Boxing Day, and back to regular weekday schedule as of......

Parents watch their kids toboggan in High Park on Christmas Day, 1910. Photo courtesy of William James/The Toronto Archives. That little weather icon above our logo is starting to get pretty depressing. With 8 days left until Christmas, there's still no snow on the ground, and with the exception of the few centimeters that we had just over a week ago that quickly melted, there's barely been a speck in the sky since last......