As you may have read, Blue Rodeo played a series of free concerts around the city yesterday. As you also may have read, there's a provincial election going on. Reader Matt Kim sent us the following story of a rather odd intersection of the two: Me and some of my co-workers left early today to see Blue Rodeo, who were playing various spots around Toronto, promoting their new album. By the time we'd arrived,......

It's pretty much impossible to be a theatre enthusiast for over a decade (Torontoist started early) and not see a lot of productions of Hamlet. And sometimes we get cranky and cynical and grumble over our beer with our fellow cynical theatre school graduate chums about how it's enough already with the freaking Hamlet, and can everyone please just stop for awhile and, say, trot out Coriolanus instead. But that's just cynical beery grumbling. Because......

Our attention span is short enough at the best of times, and in the middle of a frigid and hectic December (like this one, if you haven't been paying attention) all we really want to do is read rhyming books about hippos. Fortunately, Sandra Boynton is here to fill all our rhyming hippo needs (which are extensive). Plus, if you're stuck for gift ideas for all the kids (and immature friends) in your life,......