Happy New Year! Thousands of GTA-ians jammed Nathan Phillips Square to watch CIty TV's tiny perfect anchorman Gord Martineau host his 75th New Year's bash. Thousands more did not. Toronto also rang in the new year with another snowstorm, which is expected to continue all day and inflict up to 10 cm of inconvenience on the city. Stupid climate change. Today the GST drops by a penny to 5%, meaning that the shwarma you......

Newmindspace would like to wish you a very fun 2007 by offering their documentary, "Into a Newmindspace," for free online. The 15-minute film chronicles Queen of Hearts, which saw Queen West covered in thousands of chalk hearts last Valentine's Day, a massive pillow fight in New York City, and a smashing underground party to celebrate the subway's birthday in March. Filmed by two Ryerson students, Laura Dittmann and Meg Spevak, the documentary can also be......

Who likes lists? Everybody! As we creep up on the new year, we thought we'd reflect on a few of our more popular (and our more controversial) posts of the past twelve months. Thanks to our revamped Favourites page, it's a little easier. If nothing else, this post will give you some reading material to glance over while you're busy getting spiffy for this fine evening. 1. Our TTC Swag Suggestions (144 comments, October......

Happy New Year, film fans! Or, perhaps, not. For we’ve slammed like so much booze filled new year vomit upon the tarmac of the post-Christmas lull, in which basically nothing of interest is released in any format. Certainly this week fans of more high brow cinema will have to hang on like those last few drips of chunky bile saliva for Cinematheque Ontario’s winter programme, starting on January 13th, which we’ll probably talk about then,......

This post is a double-sided spoon: Happy New Year to various Jewish people, and welcome back to the Maple Laughs. Pre-game buzz has The Woz and Kyle Wellwood. Although the real players/injuries to watch out for are Eric Lindros and Jason Allison. (And, sadly, no Stumpy Thomas, who was once Torontoist's favourite Leaf.) Airs tonight on TSN at 8 PM.......

A column in yesterday's Sun brings home the fact that you'll be bringing home less in the new year. But such is life. In Canada. Still, when you read Sun reporter Maryanna Lewyckyj's litany of rising taxes and receding services, you start to hurt for your wallet, be it a duct tape DIY, or of the finest leathers that money can buy. This year marks the inauguration of McGuinty's much-maligned health levy, and if you're......