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. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of......

Last night, Teletoon's The Detour held a small event in the Royal Cinema to celebrate their upcoming fall lineup, showing a selection of the adult-orientated animation that will soon be on the channel. The lineup includes the long-overdue Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo (from the creators of Sealab 2021), Moral Orel (created by Mr. Show alumni, including Jay Johnston), and Metalocalypse, which was created by Brendon Small (who is best known for Home Movies) and......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley......

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to......

Each of these exclamations could be questions due to their outright absurdity, don't you think? - The brand new Villiage People line-up! - The brand new Sandy Cohen album! He was on Canada AM this morning...Question mark. - Korean-town karaoke vs. Dictionary-Karaoke! - David Lynch, the weatherman! - The interview! - Late Night with the White Stripes, tonight's guest - Conan O'Brien! (from Said the Grammophone)......

With a jonesin’ for some foie gras, Torontoist headed out to the St. Lawrence Market in search of the delectable treat. Unfortunately, our trusted supplier did not have any whole fatty liver, so we settled for a foie gras pate instead, setting us back 30 bones. While looking for a nibble, we stumbled upon the famous Carousel Bakery location, which offers up their famous peameal bacon sandwiches on a Kaiser bun for about…$5 (if......

The letters pages of this month's issue of Masthead magazine are positively snark-laden. Taddle Creek's Editor-in-Chief sees fit to quibble with the high praise given Spacing Mag's buttons in last mo's issue for not using an authentic TTC font. But the actual backgrounds on the pins aren't real either - Designer Matt Blackett illustrated them to represent the look of the TTC stations - so it's a bit of a silly point of contention. That......

As Torontoist sits down to reflect upon last year's Arcade Fire album, we ask ourselves: "Is all we ever do is sit down to reflect upon last year's Arcade Fire album?" Watching the Win and Regine show last night on Conan O'Brien raised a completely separate issue though. That issue, briefly, is Chart Magazine. (Not a specific Chart issue, but the content of the publication in general.) This week's 2004 Eye Music Critic's Poll included......

Late in the day don'ts for your edification! - Don't drink Sealtest Chocolate Milk: If it's 1%, 1 litre and has a February 7th exp. date. Apparently, it has cleaning agent in it, and three GTA residents have taken ill. - Don't believe Ann Coulter: Canada did not send forces to Vietnam, despite her protestations to the contrary in this Fifth Estate-via Gawker clip. - Don't be a victim of fraud: On this, the first......

This weekend the Toronto Reference Library opens a graphic novel show with works by "leading graphic novelists such as Seth, Chester Brown, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Julie Doucet, Marjane Satrapi, R. Crumb and many more." It'll be up at the TD Gallery Space until March 20, but there will be intermittent gallery talks as well, including a free one in February with Chester Brown, creator of the brilliant (and brilliantly stolen from TOist by an......

It's official: Toronto and NBC have broken up. NBC was caught cheating on us with a newly de-taxed New York City. And there are some bigtime issues there; Americans have this destructive love/hate thing with outsourcing, and we don't even want to deal with it. So fine then, leave. Um, like we even care? We are Hollywood of the North! We don't need NBC or Conan O'Brien or The Donald. Soon we'll have a much......

We know we're risking grave nerd status for life, but we love Sherlock. So much so that we pilgrimaged to London's 222 Baker Street and had our twelve year-old mug photographed in every room of the good sleuth's townhouse. It was only when we got a little wiser, or at least older, that we were informed that, much like Santa Clause, Sherlock wasn't real. Egads! Having come to terms with that fact, we still like......