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. gone to graveyards, every one BY MISSYV110......

This evening, Toronto Culture and Fort York are unveiling a permanent public art installation under the Gardiner Expressway (off Fort York Boulevard, between Bathurst and Fleet Streets). In WATERTABLE, Toronto artists Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak use video and lights to create the effect of rippling water on the underside of the highway—a reminder that the Gardiner runs along what used to the original shoreline of Lake Ontario. Ever wonder why the the Toronto......

Trampoline Hall, the lecture series/literary salon with a reputation for being playful and inventive, is upping its quirk factor slightly this week in two ways. Instead of being held at its usual venue, Sneaky Dee's, this week's lectures (on robotism, hyperbolic crochet and diverse curiosity) will be delivered at Fort York. The event's organizers have also found an experimental new way to capture the evening's events: a group of Toronto-based comics artists will act......

Sunday afternoon is the Toronto Public Space Committee's third annual Human River Walk, a trek along the course of the buried Garrison Creek, from Christie Pits to Fort York in a parade of blue, symbolically bringing the river back above ground for one beautiful afternoon. Along the route, there will be music, performances, and stories about the history of the creek, the neighbourhoods, the trees, and Toronto's stormy relationship with its water. But, above......

Anyone who grew up in Toronto has been on at least one school field trip to historic Fort York. You've smelled the horseshit, eaten the biscuits, and probably watched some corny performance by someone in a costume telling you how things used to be in the olden days. So it might be tempting to dismiss Crate Productions' new play The Fort at York as an educational play, or worse, historical reenactment. This would be......

Given the chance to provide insider knowledge about Toronto to a well-known travel site on behalf of your city and fellow residents, what juicy local secrets would you reveal? Lucky Toronto members of Travelocity.ca presented with this very challenge seemed to buckle under pressure. Based on a poll of its members, this year’s Toronto finalists in Travelocity's 25 Canadian “Local Secrets, Big Finds” were Café Diplomatico and Riverdale Farm. While we can all agree......

Yarrrrrrrrr! Strap on that eye patch, plop a parrot on your shoulder, and get set for some swashbuckling! Follow the dilapidated, yellowed map and sail on over to The Pirate Festival at the X-marks-the-spot location of Fort York. This historic site will be transformed into the uncharted Caribbean island of Torontuga, an 18th-century village where real life pirates display authentic pirate antics. A shipload of pirates shall be a mighty impressive crew. With enumerable sea......

Photo by kstashuk. Nothing says loving like a cold beer on a hot day. Luckily for us, the good people at The Beer Store decided to open up Fort York to us again this year, allowing us to drink, frolic and be merry in an enclosed and historic setting. In such an environment as this, how could we help but pit four GTA-centric Ontario Craft Brewery beers against each other? To make things a......

The Toronto Star published a good article Sunday revealing that "the city's Waterfront Secretariat is now reviewing the recommendations and cost estimates of recent waterfront task forces on the fate of the Gardiner." Torontoist hears you asking, wasn't this the whole point of the Gardiner Report released last September? Now that the city has all but canned plans to tear down the elevated highway due to lack of funds, however, discussions are focussing on......

In the summer heat, Toronto’s downtown can seem like a sun-baked, arid domain of asphalt and glass. Scattered throughout the concrete desert, however, are a few oases of green. The Downtown Discovery Walk links the squares, parks and parkettes that can be found in the city’s busy core. And don't worry too much about the heat; there are plenty of places to duck into for shade, refreshments, and air-conditioned comfort along this route. One......

Garrison Creek once ran through Toronto from its tributaries near what is now St. Clair West, to what was once the shore of Lake Ontario, past the northeast side of Fort York. Development polluted the creek as Toronto began to grow, and in the early 1900s, work began on the burial of Garrison Creek. Long since converted into a sewer, Garrison Creek has completely disappeared from view. It has not, however, been forgotten. Evidence......

Hold on to your horrors, scary story-lovers: Stephen King is scheduled to make his first official Canadian appearance to receive a life-time achievement award from the Canadian Booksellers Association. The event, to be held at the John Bassett Theatre at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Friday, June 8, will include an on-stage interview. The organizers say that tickets go on sale today (but as of 9 a.m. this morning, the website isn’t online). You......

To some people, Groundhog Day is a silly little day where some rodent-like critter gets 15 seconds in the news cycle to flip a coin and tell us if there's going to be a short summer or not. Or for some, it could be all about the 1993 classic starring Bill Murray about a crazy day that repeats itself over and over and over again. But to Fort York, Groundhog Day is going to......

Not everyone's December 25th consists of bulging stockings hanging from a mantel, unwrapping presents in the reflection of Christmas tree ornaments, and a grandmother in her pearls and green and red apron carving a turkey at the family dinner. For those not living in a movie, who are boycotting the holidays, or who forgot about Santa’s birthday, Torontoist has the guide to an alternative Christmas. Those Charity Drives Were for a Reason Remember the......

Believe or not there are rivers in Toronto other than the Don and the Humber. Back in the day downtown Toronto was crisscrossed by streams like Taddle Creek and the Garrison. Most of these were abused by settlers and used as sewers, dumping grounds and finally buried. But this weekend the Toronto Public Space is going to try to bring the Garrison, the largest of Toronto's buried rivers back to the surface, metaphorically. On Saturday......

2006 is clearly the Year of the Pirate, with this limey pop culture meme invading everything in Toronto from DJ Lazarus fetish parties to festivals at Fort York. This Friday's Pirates of the Streetcarrr Parrrty by Newmindspace is no exception to the swashbuckling madness. Attendees are promised "Pirates and mermaids from the briney deep," bottles of rum, old maritime songs and a surprise event in the middle. Let's hope it's not walking the plank.......

The Janet Bellotto curated Nature in the Garage art series has taken over a few Toronto locales the last couple of weeks and in this heat we really don't feel like biking around to City Hall, Fort York, Harbourfront, the Drake and Gallery 1313. Thankfully, there's a bus that'll take our lazy butts to all of these sites. It runs for the last time tomorrow night at 5:00 pm at City Hall (meet inside,......

Spacing magazine is doing what the Americans never could and taking Fort York with the help of ERA Architects and Murmur, tomorrow night starting at 8pm until late. For $20 you can join in on the victory festivities, wander the battlefield, play games, maybe even fire a cannon at the Gardiner. Oh your $20 also gets you food and refreshments because all of that storming of battlements does make you tired.......

Given the variety of costumes we witnessed at the World RPS Championships this weekend and Sunday's Zombie Walk, it seems that Torontonians are hip to celebrating Hallowe'en all week. We can't possibly beat a band of 100 zombies marching across the city, so we're joining 'em by bringing the Ist List back from the dead. All week we'll be sharing our favourite stories about local ghosties. This one is gloriously fangorious, and was brought......