The Toronto Book Awards were established by City Council in 1974, and have honoured Torontoish books of literary or artistic merit ever since. The Awards Committee, Camilla Holland, Brian Jantzi, Winona McMorrow, Sarah Rotering and Herman Silochan, recently announced this year’s nominations. Your 2007 shortlist is: Sally Gibson’s Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920s (Cormorant) Geoffrey James’s book of photographs, Toronto (Douglas & McIntyre) Vincent Lam’s novel, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (Doubleday Canada)......

If, as Geoffrey James claimed, Toronto is a "jolie laide" (a pretty, ugly woman), then we've got a photo exhibit that might just epitomize our city. As part of a year-long photography showcase with new artists each month, the photos of our own Carrie Musgrave and blogTO's Jerrold Litwinenko are being featured in an exhibit called Pretty/Ugly. The whole idea, as the two explain it, is to "get people to see beauty in the mundane......

Between July 2003 and January 2006, photographer Geoffrey James took his panoramic camera across our city, taking shots of areas as diverse as High Park, Dundas Square, Kensington Market, Regent Park, and Liberty Village. Those photographs are collected in his newly-released book, Toronto, and the shots tell a story of a city in flux, both confident in its history and insecure about where it's headed. Besides photographs, Toronto also features an expansive introduction by......

We've got an invite to pass along for a launch party, exhibit, and book signing for photographer Geoffrey James' newest effort, Toronto, on Thursday night. James has travelled around the city taking shots of some of the underappreciated places in the city with his wide-angle panoramic camera. Torontoist's favourite local philosopher, Mark Kingwell, provides the introduction. The exhibition that accompanies the book launch features large black and white prints by James and some other......

Torontoist, as previously mentioned, was not at all plussed by OCAD's adventures in art selling. In fact, we'd even venture to say we were nonplussed. But this other school is pulling a similar trick, and well, fool us once, fool us twice, we think it looks good. The Ryerson Gallery's Holday Show and Sale ends December 8th, but until then you can view and bid on works by Geoffrey James, Ruth Kaplan and others. You......