In addition to some upcoming online renovations based on some questions they are asking, the Toronto Reference Library has announced a revitalization project that will physically transform the library throughout the next five years. Being the first renovation of its kind since the library opened its doors in 1977, the project will cost $30 million. Original architects Moriyama and Teshima will be responsible for the library's redesign. The first phase of the project will......

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. What's so great about Jet Fuel Coffee Shop (519 Parliament Street)? It may be a favourite for Cabbagetown residents,......

How does a newly-opened shopping complex bring in shoppers? Hold a British-themed sale, featuring specials on fine UK products like Orange Julius and Gordon Lightfoot records! The Yonge-Eglinton Centre opened in October 1973 with Dominion and Horizon as its anchors. The short-lived Horizon chain was an attempt by Eaton's to enter the crowded discount department store field. This location was converted to an Eaton's store when the company pulled the plug on Horizon in......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur, the......

Yorkville is renowned for its high proportion of fancy ladies with small dogs inside of expensive handbags and men in designer pinstripe suits driving oversized vehicles down narrow streets. Although you may not visit frou-frouland frequently, the new Toronto Writers' Centre (TWC) at 101 Yorkville Ave. could make a trek to the area worthwhile. Ex-lawyer and novelist Mitch Kowalski is the brains behind Canada’s first writing centre, which he modeled after similar writing centres......

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Torontoist was at his local coffee shop when a couple of local hipsters walked in carrying that childhood classic Hungry Hungry Hippos. What followed was worthy of an Alanis Morissette lyric. Hipster 1: Guys I need a fourth to play Hungry Hungry Hippos. Hipster 2: [sets up hippos] Where are the marbles? Hipster 1: You lost all the marbles? Hipster 2: But we just bought this game.......

On our endless quest for cool places to go and different things to do, Torontoist can't seem to stray far from the inarguably cool 'hood of Queen Street West. Tequila Bookworm exists relatively unmarked just west of Augusta on Queen, and relies on its cool crowd and loyal regulars to draw passersby inside. Without a huge billboard-style sign out front or a dizzying chalkboard menu above the bar like the impersonal coffee franchises nearby, the......

We know very little about Dennis Day's video installation at Paul Petro Gallery. But we know enough to be curious about 'This Narrative is Killing Me,' a piece that is reputed to journey through 'Transylvanian moonscapes, Baroque parties and fraternity joyrides.' Count us in for all three. Well, maybe not the fraternity joyrides. On a tangentially related note, why does any film festival professing to be cool use the rusty old real-reel pun? Day's work......