Photo of Post Porn Modernists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens by Julian Cash. It must be nice to write a column for The Globe: you can pass judgment on artists’ work without attending to pesky trivialities like seeing their shows, and project your own insecurities and feelings of lack onto people who are actually changing the world. Herein is a review of a recent show by Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens at Buddies in......

Gas prices in Ontario at a nine-month high. Given the immediately following news item, Torontoist can only say "well, shucks" and pull out its collective bike with thirty-plus seats. Arctic icecap melting even faster than expected. At its current rate of melting, the Arctic ocean will lack summer ice by 2020 rather than the previous prediction of 2050. In response to this latest news, John Baird said Al Gore was a big dumb fatty fat......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

Few things are more representative of the holiday season than the bell ringers and familiar red shield of the Salvation Army. Ever-present at malls, street corners and inside TTC property, the London-based organization collects cash for its Christian outreach services benefiting 30 million people in Canada and abroad. The Sally Ann is one of the world's largest, richest and most visible philanthropic agencies, recently providing significant relief for victims of Hurricane Rita and support for......

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it......

Hundreds marched around Downtown Toronto for the Stop the Violence walk on Sunday but this weekend, around Toronto, there was a different story. Police reported that three people were shot: one of them was a 13-year old boy who walked into Etobicoke General Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The Star asks why Ontario schoolboards aren't hiring teachers from new immigrant communities? They argue that there might be a hidden apartheid that blindsides......

It appears as if most Canadians got what they wanted last night, with the Conservatives achieving a minor minority and PM Paul Martin effectively resigning. Over the past six weeks (the first two, we were convinced of another Lib win), Torontoist has spoke out against getting too cozy with the Cons - and we spoke this for good reason. First, some of the CPC platform is a little redonkers; mainly considering time and money parameters.......

The match making business will never be the same after gay marriage is introduced into Canadian culture. When the capital "L" liberals vote to change the definition of marriage from the union of a man and woman to the union of two people, the definition of match making will change with it. Will Chuck Guité and John Gomery get together? Could Chris Murphy of Sloan and George Stroumboulopoulos be an item? Torontoist columnists Paige and......

Slow news weeks mean the press has to synthesize, to take the story of the day and make it new by microwaving it, adding some special sauce and informing the dining public why we should eat the same meal for the third day in the row. And so, in this week of drizzle and fizzle, it should come as no surprise that gay marriage is being reheated like a Morrison's Cafeteria Special. CP talks about......