City sells "the McDonald's site" on Bloor for a fairly low price. However, Adam Vaughan insists there are upsides to the deal, such as being able to limit the height of the condo development that will take its place, because who would want tall buildings in the downtown core? Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. Although initial reports that he has "weeks to live" were apparently false, pancreatic cancer is still one of the deadliest......

Kennedy Station will remain closed today, at least for the morning. So, if you live in Scarborough, enjoy those shuttle buses. It's Super Tuesday! Barack Obama is closing the gap with Hillary Clinton in a number of key states, most notably California. Meanwhile, the Republican race is boiling down to a dogfight between Mitt Romney, running on the "I hate liberals the most" platform, and John McCain, running on the "I might actually be......

Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We're especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you've got. How's the view up there?BY ~EVIDENCE~ Canadian Heat WaveBY SNIDERSCION North side glass bridgeBY UWAJEDI Toronto On a StickBY SWILTON Toronto Is... Ice. #2BY......

It used to be that as sure as you could count on awkward conversations at the office Christmas party and a stocking full of clementines on Christmas morning, you could count on being able to turn your TV to channel 11 on Christmas Eve to see a certain Bing Crosby vehicle featuring the best-selling single of all time: White Christmas. While channel 11 (it's certainly not CHCH anymore...what is it?) has given up its......

A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night. Cathy Gordon decided to get very, very publicly divorced on Monday, with an art piece she called "On My Knees." For it, she crawled around Toronto for a while (on her knees!), signed divorce papers, and then......

For some of us, every day is dance day, but UNESCO has decided that this Sunday, April 29th, is International Dance Day 2007 for everyone. "Oh, my sainted aunt!" you cry. "How to manage the anticipation? The pressure! How can I avoid messing this one up like I did Secretaries Day, or that one Mothers' Day in 1986?" (Shudder.) "I swear, I honestly thought she liked macaroni art." Don't you know it? Dance Umbrella......

The Lunch Express rides again. It's a shuttlebus service that takes office workers in Markham and Richmond Hill to nearby shops and restaurants so they don't have to drive their own cars. Assuming you count Quizno's as a "restaurant." Admittedly, they GOT A PEPPER BAR! And a pepper bar is important. For starters, it makes the Quizno's food taste like peppers, instead of like nothing. Dalton McGuinty loves himself some garbage incinerators. The controversy over......

If you’ve seen the movie The Aristocrats, you know disgusting can be smart. But while most stand up nights have more than their share of jokes involving penises, poo, breasts and masturbation, by the end of the night, what was once mirthful becomes meh. It’s partially because most comics reserve their most fecund fecal matter material for friends and fellow comedians. Few truly delve into scatological onstage. Comedians Deborah Robinson (Fresh Meat 2006, Much......

The Whoof... Joe Cocker Spaniel... Sha-na-nauzer... Santana's Litter Helper... Woofstock is back and bigger than ever! This year's largest outdoor festival for doggie and doggie lovers is changing venues and heading to the St Lawrence Market, closing off Front Street from Scott to Jarvis with Market in between (banking the Flatiron Building.) With over 150 exhibitors, this free (no money) event will sure to elicit a Pavlovian response from dog, dog owner and dog......

How illegitimate are tonight's Casby awards? Well, maybe illegitimate is the wrong word. Can we use "bogus" instead? The equivalent of the Teen Choice Awards makes an attempt at a throw down tonight at the Kool Haus with performances by the largely-nominated Bedouin Soundclash and Hot Hot Heat. Bring your white belts. (Except any white-belted individuals should know that you must win a ticket or be on the GList to enter.) And after the party,......

Hot Hot Heat x New Afro - (A band called Louis) + All Ages = TWEENS! Torontoist was busy coming up with the above formulae all last week, and thus was mathematically and chemically prepared for Saturday's Hot Hot Heat performance at the Kool Haus. But while toiling on the equation for countless hours paid off in accuracy, Torontoist had one minor miscalculation: The F-u-t-u-r-e-h-e-a-d-s. Supposedly the largest Canadian Triple H show ever, Torontoist was......

Alonzo Mourning apologized to Raptor fans yesterday, saying he’s sorry if he got their hopes up following his inclusion in the deal that sent Vince Carter packing. Mourning, who came out of retirement following a 2003 kidney transplant, said he wanted to play for a championship-caliber team. His return to Miami, where he had his best years as a pro, may in-fact allow him to achieve his long awaited goal. Depsite the fact that the......

Torontoist would like to give everyone another reason why they should fight the proposed anti-postering bylaw with everything they've got, rock posters. The streets, hoardings and lampposts of the city are frequently blessed by beautiful work by people like the Complaint Department and Michael Comeau (one of his more recent works was the poster for the packed Toronto Public Space Committee Fundraiser). Occasionally we are also blessed by a poster from Montreal duo Chloe Lum......

Given the relatively short existence of rap music, tracing its lineage appears fairly simple. The advances in the genre are well-documented: Kool Herc started turntablism, Kurtis Blow first brought rap to the mainstream, Prince Paul popularized skits, Afrika Bambaataa rocked the sample, and so forth and so on. Then there is Dr Dre's classic 1992 album The Chronic, which represents perhaps the most perplexing turn in hip hop history. The album essentially brought West Coast......

We at the Torontoist would like to apologize for how repetitive our basketball reports are becoming. As sorry as we are, though, it appears that nothing is changing. Our “beloved” Dino’s lost yet another game Sunday afternoon, this time to Shaq-fu and the Miami Heat. It was the Raps seventh straight loss since they beat the same Heat in south Florida late last November. With games against T-wolves, Pacers, Nets, Rockets, Jazz, Suns, Lakers and......

The Raptors recorded just their second road win of the young season last night in a tough battle against conference favourite Kazaam and the Miami Heat. With Vinsanity hardly contributing with just five points on 2 for 9 shooting, the win was fueled by the return of Donyell Marshall who added sixteen points to the (almost) full team effort. Marshall’s return adds size inside along with gifted outside shooting. The Raps will to continue their......