Are you getting geared up for the season finale of The Hills on Monday? If so, continue reading. If not, we don't need another lecture about how the show is quasi-scripted—tell it to your boring friends. The last few weeks have surprised loyal viewers with some major plot twists: Audrina finally dumped Justin Bobby, Lauren wants to make a boyfriend out of notorious man-whore Brody Jenner, Spencer's sister has turned cat-fighting into the official......

Torontoist is one of fourteen cities in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site—from LAist to Londonist—compile some of their most interesting posts into a brief blurb. It's Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse, and it appears, across the network, every Sunday. Londonist got the big scoop of the week with what may be the first images of notorious street artist Banksy in action. They also got on a runaway train without......

Scandinavian Airlines says that they will permanently ground their fleet of Canadian-made Bombardier Q400 turboprops following three accidents involving problems with landing gear. In response, Bombardier will no longer market the plane as the Q400 Skid. The Dalai Lama is in Ottawa, where he will spend three days meeting with Tibetan exiles and politicians. The world's cutest religious leader said during a speech that war is obsolete, noting, "We all come from our mother's......

Two super-fast ticket giveaways for you today...get 'em while they're hot. First up are three pairs of tickets to see Colorado's Rose Hill Drive with Zuku tonight at Lee's Palace, courtesy of Against the Grain. If you've never heard Rose Hill Drive, think 70's rock a la Zeppelin, and for what it's worth, Rolling Stone recently named them one of the "10 new artists to watch in 2007." Up for it? If you can make......

-There's nothing to cheer up a dreary Hump Day like a sickeningly cute story about a hamster and a snake who are BFF in Tokyo, where animal life evidently unfolds according to the tenets of a Disney movie. Just look at them, though! We can't get enough of this picture. They're all "you bitches know nothing of our love. NOTHING!" -In less heartwarming news, we may have learned nothing from SARS and the bird flu......

Christo is the installation artist best known for wrapping up bridges and buildings, placing giant umbrellas in a California valley and even draping a canyon in orange fabric. Working with his partner Jeanne Claude, for the last three decades, the couple has created a series of works that examine our relationship to our spaces, both natural and urban. Their pieces take years to plan, are meticulously planned but once installed are often only up......