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When we heard that the Eaton Centre had launched their own iPhone app in time for the start of the holiday shopping season [iTunes link], it seemed like a good, ol'-fashioned trashing would be in order. Why, we wondered, would you need an Eaton Centre app on your handheld if you were already in the mall? And if you weren't in the mall, how much use could it be?

These three local towers were...

Last weekend, Improv Toronto—the volunteer prank team that brought us such hits as Subway Dance Party, Dinosaur Protest, and Where's Waldo in the Eaton Centre—set out to bring the glamour and spirit of the finish line to downtown Toronto. Taking to the streets, twenty pranksters armed with noisemakers staked out intersections, Dundas Square, and even City Hall with a fake finish line banner and tried to get bystanders to race. Although many were confused at first—some people thought they had accidentally gotten mixed up in a marathon—most eventually realized that the cheers were for them. Over the course of the day, hundreds of Torontonians gleefully raced each other to the finish line and everyone who ran was given a first place certificate for their effort. "This just made my day," remarked one participant.

FUNDRAISER: Fight AIDS and the bare walls of your woefully under-furnished apartment all at once at the Cape Town Shakedown: Silent Auction and Fundraiser tonight. Proceeds from the sale of art produced by local talent will go to The Cape Town Children’s Scholarship Foundation and provide scholarships to youth in Khayelitsha Township (just outside of Capetown), South Africa. We're a media sponsor, and this is a really great cause, so we'll take it very personally, un-friend you from Facebook, and delete all your texts if you don't show up. Studio Gallery (294 College Street), 7–11 p.m., FREE.

Photo by Jahat from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Get your bathing suits out people—spring may finally be here, with the temperature expected to hit 9° today and a sub-tropical 15° tomorrow. (Disclaimer: the phrase "get your bathing suits out" is not intended to recommend or endorse the practice of swimming in Lake Ontario. Residents should always consult with their toxicologist before bathing at beaches in or around the GTA.)

Photos by Miles Storey

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

If you like dancing and the TTC, this is probably the sweetest thing you will see today (other than, maybe, that Spadina Bus video). On Saturday afternoon, Jared Alleyne––inspired by Toronto's Improv Everywhere–inspired stunts like the Eaton Centre freeze and the no-pants subway ride––organized a small group to fill a Yonge-University subway car with spontaneous, unsolicited, and definitely unchoreographed dancing. We'd say more, but the video above pretty much does all the talkin' for us.

Weeks of record-breaking, finger-numbing, Antarctican weather are leaving Torontonians frozen across the city—and someone thinks it's hilarious.

Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We're especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you've got.

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve.

As the crowds descend on the Eaton Centre and Queen West for last minute shopping, the Queen streetcar becomes the hottest spot in town. With shoppers in down jackets squeezing into the car, the experience most resembles warm sardines packed in a tin, and it smells equally appealing.

Photo by karlofun from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

A couple weeks back, Spacing Wire posted this brilliant old TTC ad that made us hungry for more forgotten gems of Toronto advertising. The video in question was uploaded by a user calling themselves WNED 17, and their entire archive is made up of similar videos. In fact, their profile page provides a mission statement: "Youtube user WNED17 is proud to present repeat portions of broadcast captured in the 1980s and early 1990s via...

Continuing a historic tradition of corporately sponsored holiday cheer, the 35-foot "Swarovski Crystal Wish Tree" was formally unveiled last night at the Eaton Centre. The star-studded event––a Children’s Wish Foundation fundraiser hosted by Justin Trudeau (yes, the Justin Trudeau)––drew a sizeable crowd of shoppers. Very few members of the audience seemed to actually know what they were lining up to see, though, as the tree was hidden by an enormous curtain for the better part...

Few companies inspire the kind of product lust that Apple does, and it's no secret that Mac users can be somewhat evangelical about the company from Cupertino. To many Apple fans in Canada, it's sheer torture that TV shows and movies aren't yet available in the Canadian iTunes Music Store, or that the iPhone is taking so damn long to cross the border. In the United States, the iPhone has been the must-have tech...

The above image viewed from afar might lead you to believe it is just a photo taken in a dimly-lit subway station. We were almost tricked, too! However, it is actually a screenshot from the newest Half-Life 2 mod by a team of five George Brown thesis students, which is called City 7: Toronto Conflict.

A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night.

Toronto legend Edwin "Honest Ed" Mirvish has died. He was 92.

There is good advertising and there is bad advertising. There is even good guerilla advertising—depending on who you ask. Take, for instance, Boston's "Mooninites" promoting the Aqua Teen Hunger Force film, which polarized (and paralyzed) the city; last week's Fashion Targets Breast Cancer Tees, which polarized Torontoist commenters; or, now, GJP Advertising's party streamer installation on Queen Street, just outside of Nathan Phillips Square.

The Spadina Expressway was probably the most high-profile megaproject in Toronto that was never built, but it's also just one of many. For his OCAD thesis project, David Kopulos has detailed a host of construction projects that were planned for Toronto, but that never materialized—both the reviled (such as the Expressway) and the intriguing—on his website, Toronto Pending. Each entry explains what the proposed structure would have been and why it wasn't built, alongside artist's renderings, photos and a map of the would-be site that cheekily states, "You aren't here." Some of the projects include:

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!

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law.

“Desire” is the unifying theme behind most of the ten art and craft exhibitions currently on view at the York Quay Centre down at Harbourfront.

Anti-ad activists have long argued that pervasive outdoor advertising is hazardous to our mental health. Turns out they have the potential to be physically menacing, too. Torontoist was on the scene earlier this afternoon after a huge ad came down from the side of Eaton Centre, causing the closure of Yonge Street to vehicles between Dundas and Shuter. No word yet on whether anyone was hurt, though it appeared that only the ad itself fell, rather than any metal bracing, so injuries seem unlikely. We're still awaiting comment from the Eaton Centre and will let you know when we hear back.

As the countdown to Christmas kicks into high gear (only seven more days to go!), it's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the season. Between shopping for presents, visiting with friends and family, and waging a pathetic battle over pine trees, many of us forget to consider those in need.

Torontoist has noticed an abundance of lost pet notices downtown this month, and what could be sadder, really? We don't know if it's a time of year when pets go missing more often, but we do know it's unlikely to be a result of a Halloween ritual blood sacrifice. Many shelters south of the border report that most of their missing animal calls come on the heels of July 4th fireworks, which often scare a pet out of the house and into hiding.

A shooting near the Eaton Centre last night reminded local media of last year's Boxing Day shooting of Jane Creba. The Star is reporting that shots were fired at a car at the intersection of O'Keefe Lane and Shuter St. Blocks away from the Eaton Centre. As of right now, no victims have been reported.