Results tagged “grandprize”

Torontoist usually shudders at any combination of the words "folk" and "rock," but Ryerson Theatre grad Peter Katz has been slowly brewing a successful music career in that hybrid genre since he finished school in 2004. Winner of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award and the Grand Prize Winner of Toronto's IndieWeek (2005), Katz just released his first "official" full-length album, More Nights, under the name Peter Katz and the Curious.

Our Simpsons contest is over, and while fifteen of our readers came up with valiant attempts to invent new words, we can only give three of them the prizes that we've been graciously allocated by Cornerstone Promotion. We at Torontoist are pleased to be part of the unending promotional machine that is this film. So, winners!

Where can you find popcorn lovers and peaceniks together? At a politically conscious film fest—in a park, no less!

So apparently there's this film coming out tomorrow about some family called "The Sampsons" or "The Simpsons" or something. You probably haven't heard much about it, as the company producing the film (they're named after an animal, it's like WOLF or FOX) doesn't have very much money for promotion, certainly not enough to renovate entire convenience stores across the United States to look like convenience stores in the film or to renovate a downtown bar in Toronto to look like the bar in the film.

Last week, we asked Torontoist readers to submit their ideas for a Stephen King-esque plot, for a chance to win tickets to King's first public appearance in Canada ever (Friday night!), as well as a whole pile of books. Here are the winning plots.