Each weekday morning, we 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! At some point or another since March, we're sure you've been affected by the streetcar track reconstruction along Dundas. This image of work being done at the intersection of Dundas and Beverley by Cyclopean View is fantastic. The photographer......

Submission deadlines are quickly approaching for some of this year’s most exciting weekends of outdoor artfulness and it’s time to get those applications together. The ALLEYJAUNT will return for its 5th year in alleyways, garages and green spaces in and around Trinity Bellwoods Park. Proposals are being accepted from local artists and art collectives for site-specific installations, projects that incoporate urban themes and artistic interventions. The alleyway art will be taking place August 11 and......

Ladyfest began in Olympia, Washington – the hometown of the riot grrrl movement – in 2000, and the feminist festival, featuring music, art and workshops, has since spread across the globe. 2007 will mark the sixth consecutive year for Ladyfest Ottawa, and the first time since 2004 that Ladyfest has taken place in Toronto. According to Ladyfest Toronto’s mandate, it aims to “work locally to support and inspire emerging women artists and improve the......

The 1960s and 1970s saw family dining restaurant chains explode across North America. Chains such as Steak n' Burger took staples of diners and greasy spoons and used cleanliness, low prices and conformity to draw in hungry families. You have all the components of the old-school low-end steak dinner: a bowl of iceberg lettuce with no fresh-ground pepper or sun-dried tomato vinaigrette in sight, a baked potato with a huge pat of butter; a......

Although it may be Valentine’s Day – don’t worry, there’s still time to buy flowers or chocolates - Christopher Moore still thinks you suck. Join This Is Not A Reading Series tonight as they celebrate the launch of the cult writer’s latest novel, You Suck. The prolific American author – he splits his time between San Francisco and Hawaii – is probably best known for the novel Lamb. His books often merge horror and comic......

The Gallerist is Torontoist's new bi-weekly arts listings. Starting January 31st, check back every other Wednesday for a new batch of events. Last Thursday local painter Colin Druhan hosted a busy and boozy reception at Katharine Mulherin's secondary space on Queen West. His work (see 'Hail Satan' at right) features mainly portraits of fashionable men and sinister women, but there are a few friendly looking dog portraits scattered within the small space. Sharing the gallery......

In the window of Rita di Cesare's Toronto studio, there's a naked mannequin. For a first-time visitor, it's a temporary shock: You avert your eyes, looking at the studio's teal walls while thinking that someone in front of you is undressing. But it's apropos for the local headquarters of fashion label Nude Clothes. Designer di Cesare hit the scene a few years ago, her label the happy byproduct of an industrial design internship. Her......

No time…Must get back down to Harbourfront…IFOA in full swing…Here are some other literary events taking place this week…. Monday The Test Reading Series returns on Monday night, 7:30pm, with readings from Rob Read (that could be the best name for a writer I’ve ever heard) and Souvankham Thammavongsa. This night is also doubling for the launch of the new issue of Carousel, one of the best lit mags in the country – Mark Laliberte......

The week starts off with another instalment of Pussy Pen, an evening of readings and performance focusing on women, trans, and queer perspectives. It takes place at Tango and Crews, 508 Church St, beginning at 8pm. Free. Tuesday’s Wildsound script reading series features Face to Face, a TV pilot script written by Christina Ray and Mark De Angelis. The event is moderated by Pamela Sinha. It starts at 7pm at the Stealth Lounge, 22......

Everyone sufficiently recovered from Word on the Street? Over 200,000 people braved the wind and rain and descended upon Queen’s Park for a celebration of books. I have a book hangover, thus the lateness of this week’s listings. Tomorrow night, This Is Not A Reading Series goes Hollywood! Journalist and filmmaker Bruce Yaccato launches Screen Legends, a chronicle of the “Canadian film pioneers who helped build the Hollywood we know today.” Joining Bruce will be......

Ok, so the city is in the grip of full-blown festival mania. Red carpets, Gala screenings, and celebrity sightings are all great, but so are poetry readings, right? Right? Anyone??? Tonight at 8pm, head north to Zemra Lounge – 778 St. Clair W. – for this month’s installment of the Diamond Cherry reading series. Stephen Humphries and former director of the Art Bar, Allan Briesmster (The Other Seasons), will be reading. It’s free, and you......

Used to be that a greasy spoon diner was content being your standard greasy spoon diner. There were three condiments: ketchup, salt, and occasionally pepper if the place wanted to be fancy. The cook would look at you suspiciously if you ordered your eggs any other way than scrambled. (Asking for eggs Benedict would, not infrequently, get you run out of town on a rail. I am led to understand the rail was only......

A couple of Sunday night events to kick-off or end your week, depending on how you see it. Gypsy Eyes, who is all over the place this week, hosts Last Call Poets at the Cadillac Lounge – 1296 Queen W. – tonight at 8pm. Admission is $7. Depending on how long Last Call Poets runs, you may be able to make it over to the Gladstone – 1214 Queen W. – for Haunted Fishtank poetry......

Those Wireless Toronto folks have struck again! The newest hotspot--which means free wifi--is in the Junction, at the Axis Gallery and Grill, a place with a great patio and a warm neighbourhood-y feel (3048 Dundas St. West). Link to info on the wireless toronto blog. (in case you forgot, Wireless Toronto is an all-volunteer group dedicated to spreading free wireless internet across this great city of ours, and using that internet to enable community......

Torontoist thinks that Toronto Star writer Andrew Chung was having a bad day when he wrote his lament on the death of Toronto's Chinatown (the one on Spadina) in Sunday's Star. Mr. Weisblott pointed out that the discussion over on the Urban Toronto forum has been brisk and we can understand why. Chung's doom and gloom don't actually reflect what it's like on Spadina. Once a prosperous hive of activity, Toronto's downtown Chinatown, centred......

We suppose they're trying to advertise their "restoration" capabilities, but it looks like they need to update their version of photoshop. On a photo studio on Dundas St. W., at Gore Vale next to Cocktail Molotov. Photographista: Meghan......

The inimitable Lisa Pijuan (who recently started a blog about nifty goings-on about town) presents the last RED of 2005 tonight at the Lula Lounge. The bi-monthly performance series is sure to wrap up the year with a bang, with curator Pijuan's usual eclectic and inspired mix of performers. Tonight's line-up includes seasoned storyteller Dan Yashinsky and dynamic performance poet Wakefield Brewster, as well as a varied slew of comedians, dancers, musicians, and performers of......

Fellow photoblogger Jerrold Litwinenko is opening his show, asia experimental this evening at the Magpie. The exhibit features a collection of images from all around asia taken between 2003 and 2005. Anyone who is a fan of lomos, expired film, toy cameras and other peculiar photographic methods should check out this exhibit. The show runs still December 22nd 2005. Here are the deets … asia experimental… Photographs by Jerrold Litwenko The Magpie 831 Dundas St......

Not all Irish, but serving green beer: The James Joyce (386 Bloor St. W.) Grossman's Tavern (379 Spadina Ave.) Revival (783 College St.) Warning: Crazy green hat celebration Hugh's Room (2261 Dundas St. W.) Ein-stein's (229 College St.) C'est What? (67 Front St. E.) Duke of York (39 Prince Arthur Ave.) Duke of Gloucester (649 Yonge St.) Paupers (539 Bloor Street W.) Shamrock Shake (McDonald's?) But for the love of all things green, don't drive!......

Read for a quick, unorganized look at the events of WORLD AGAINST WAR week in Toronto... The long, extended shadow over the field of journalism due to WMD's (and how there were none) will be examined in film tonight, courtesy of BoilingFrog.ca: 7:30pm @ Celt's Pub - 2872 Dundas St W (near Keele), $5 Independent Media in a Time of War, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism Keep reading for more scattered event listings.........

Christmas comes early if you're in the festive mood, or really drunk. On Dec. 18, Santarchy comes to the Imperial Pub on Dundas St. just east of Yonge. The Imp will host a world-wide event called SantaCon. The irony-laden SantaCon is apparently an organization of debauched Claus lovers who get wrecked each year for reasons of holiday cheer. Each December for the last 10 years Cacophonous Santas have been taking to the streets in major......

Smooth, gentle, quiet, fast, efficient, popular, fun, red; these are just a few adjectives that describe both the newly re-installed College streetcars and folk artist Oh Susanna. The street cars are back up on College St. after months of construction, and Oh Susanna is back from a quick tour of the West Coast. The Scrappy Bitch is playing Hugh's Room tonight with special guests Elliot Brood and Kathleen Edwards. In a perfect world, it would......