The holiday season is a tribute to excess. We gorge ourselves on a lot of fatty food and we fill up on fruitcake. We make sure to drink copious amounts of wine, enjoy our rum and eggnog, sip a snifter of brandy, or even down a nice cup of Manischewitz. Beer, however, often gets the short shrift during the holidays. Some find it too filling for a post-turkey nightcap; others think that beer should......

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! A decade ago the puffy shirt certainly wouldn't have registered in the fashion world. But with pirates everywhere and popular culture often inspiring the clothing we wear, it seems inevitable that it would sneak in. The themed outfit of the modern......

City Council plans to create as many as 21 new leash-free areas for dogs by the end of the year. Councillor Howard Moscoe calls for fences to separate people and canines, saying, "The problem is the dogs can't read the signs. We'd lose control completely unless they're fenced areas." Alarmed local media dub 2007 "The Summer of the Dog." 24 people, including a Toronto police officer, were arrested yesterday and charged with being part of......

City considers indexed fees for garbage pickup. This is barely news, really, because we all knew increased garbage fees were coming sooner or later, and we all know they're ultimately necessary (even if some of us don't much like that). But it's nice (or chagrin-causing, depending on your point of view) to see it finally coming about. Ontario hydro consumers saved enough electricity to power a town. Which is a great first step, but unfortunately......

A body that was discovered in 1968 north of Toronto has been identified as a 17-year-old New Brunswick teen. Richard Hovey moved here to take part in Toronto's thriving counterculture scene but sadly met a tragic end. Shaun Bruce, the 22-year-old that ran against David Miller, is back at this old job as a zamboni driver. No word on where Jane Pitfield and Stephen LeDrew are now, and do we really care? There's an old......

Sorry, kids, you’re gonna have to put your bathing suits back in the drawer for a century or so. Environmental organization Sierra Legal has released its first ever Great Lakes Sewage Report Card, and while the sewage is doing well, the lakes are not. The report rates 20 cities around the Great Lakes on how well they manage their sewage, and the results are not encouraging. In spite of multiple highly-publicized clean up programs since......

The Tories are taking a chainsaw to Status of Women Canada, closing three-quarters of the organization's regional offices, including Toronto's. Heritage Minister Bev Oda insisted that the budget cuts and office closings will streamline the department and make it more efficient. Just like a business! Because government should be run like a business! In other comedy news, the Liberal leadership convention started yesterday. Given the choice between Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae, Gerard Kennedy and......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

Yesterday, the first in a series of public meetings with the United States Coast Guard resulted in the suspention of live-fire machine gun drills on the Great Lakes until greater safety and environmental inquiries are made. The live-fire drills have been operating on all five lakes since January, only recently gaining public attention and inciting outrage in the recreational boating, fishing and cottaging communities. The U.S. Coast Guard, a division of the Department of......

Tall Poppy Interview - Davy Rothbart...

The Tall Poppy Interview - Camille Surovy, Shredder...

Have you ever heard someone say, "Hey I pulled a jester with my new footbag at the shred session last night?" It’s the language of a footbag enthusiast, someone more commonly known as a hacky-sacker. There are a surprisingly large number of footbag enthusiasts in Toronto and they’re starting to get organized. This weekend, Toronto is host to The 1st Annual Great Lakes Area Shred Symposium (G.L.A.S.S.) which will bring in some the best shredders......