Oh man! What a pickle. This week we have the release of one of our favourite films in ages, This is England, and one of our favourite films of all time, Blade Runner, in its super-special, Ridley Scott-approved final cut. So, what do we lead with? It’s an impossible situation! If Torontoist was some kind of a 1960s robot, we’d be wobbling back and forth, smoke spouting out of our metal brain holes, yelling,......

Toronto factory worker finds World War II-era hand grenade in a box of used clothing. The bomb squad was called in. If Torontoist had found the grenade, though, you know we would be all like, "Hey! Free hand grenade!" Facebook declares breastfeeding pictures to be "obscene content." It's cleverly following the example of Livejournal in caving to uptight moralistic fuckwits. Dalton McGuinty promises to freeze taxes. Again. Despite all the new-spending promises he's made in......

When Torontoist reader Maya Friedman posed the question, "If Torontoist were to get married (on a budget) where would the wedding be?" it got us thinking. Not only about where we’d get married, but how we’d do the rest on the cheap, too. Because if you’re like us, you feel a little sick when you’re watching Rich Bride, Poor Bride and the couple announces, “We spent $43,851 on our special day!” The actual ceremony is......

If Torontoist wasn’t looking after the kids tonight, we’d be checking out The End of the Internet. The End is scheduled tonight at The Press Club (850 Dundas Street West) for precisely 9 p.m. The upstart, performance-based reading series, which has been ending the Internet for almost a year now, is hosted by man-about-town Louis Calabro. Tonight, Brian Joseph Davis performs his “first ever laptop gig” with dulcet sounds he has produced over the last......

If Torontoist had our druthers when on the road, we'd outfit our vehicle James Bond-style with a laser death ray for vaporizing the bad drivers in our path. Whether it's the arrogant jackass weaving and deeking through QEW traffic at breakneck speeds or the dear old bluehair oblivious to the space around her, it only takes a bad driver or two to really make commuting around the city a white-knuckled experience. Everyone who drives......

If Torontoist is as big a civics junkie as he claims to be he'd be sleeping over at council chambers Wednesday as council starts its big budget debate. Thanks to the intervention of Dalton and crew the city's budget will balance. But not before the city had to hike both residential and business taxes plus raise fees for services, TTC fares and god knows what else. Councillor Sylvia Watson, the budget vice-chair, suggested that councillors......

Individual tickets for shows at the festival go on sale today, and Torontoist will admit that we’re a little behind on our TIFF programme previews (who puts a festival straight after Labour Day, eh?) So we’re going to speed it up a bit, with coverage of the ‘big’ films – the Galas and Masters today and we’ll clear up the rest over the next couple of days. If you seriously fancy any of the......

Cirque du Soleil's much-anticipated new show, Corteo, opens tonight in that signature blue and yellow tent next to Ontario Place. If Torontoist's trusty informant (we're in with one of the ushers) is to be believed, Cirque's latest offering once again promises the usual suspension of the laws of physics, this time for a story involving a clown's funeral procession. But if Cirque's ticket prices stretch the purse strings a little too far, don't worry,......

If Torontoist BGR were pressed to lump the populace into two generically broad categories, we'd say it all comes down to two cumbersome words: Alfajores and Empolvados. The two delectable variations on the same Chilean biscuit theme represent two drastically different world outlooks and taste temperaments. Alfajores are for the well-baked cookie fans, Empolvados for the jelly donut lovers among ye (and yes that is our second mention of donuts today. We'll endeavour to include......

Technically speaking, mango pudding involves no baking whatsoever. But if we run our bigger than our stomach eyes across the delectable array of predominantly baked goods at Spadina's Furama Dessert Garden and they land upon a conconction that is neither cookie nor cake, well, far be it from us to legislate against such a delicacy. Especially if said delicacy is none other than mango pudding, that gelatinous and often unfortunately cool-whip adorned staple of Spadina......