The coolest movie opening this week is Be Kind Rewind, which is a treasure trove of Things White People Like, as it stars Jack Black and his black friend played by Mos Def, and is directed by Michel Gondry, and has lots of irony, seeing as how it is about a couple of people who erase all the videotapes in their video store and then make their own mocking versions of the movies they......

Blame Indiana Jones, but when Torontoist was younger, we wanted to be an archaeologist when we grew up. Although our math grades weren't up to snuff, the yearning to dig for ancient treasure has never gone away. So most mornings, you'll find us peering through a chain link fence at the corner of Adelelaide and Simcoe, watching real archaeologists sifting through rubble and delicately dusting off old marbles and broken plates with little brushes.......

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

General Idea's AIDS sculpture, newly unveiled at the corner of Queen's Park and Bloor, is used to graffiti, and the public's writings on the nine-foot-tall statue ("use protection ♥," "fuck homophobia," and "it can happen to you" are some of the messages on it right now) make it all the more powerful. Yesterday afternoon, a new message appeared on the statue's previously untouched base: "Stephen Harper, You Shame Us!!" The tag is almost certainly......

Well, we’ve already mentioned the Australian Film Festival today, but, of course, there’s still space for our little round up of cinema’s new releases and indie and rep film for the week. Not only are our friends with the babies that have been eaten by dingos holding their own festival, but the University of Toronto Film Festival starts this Valentine's Day (Tuesday, for all you bad husbands out there) at Innes Town Hall, 2 Sussex.......

Connecter des jeunes artistes canadiens et torontois les uns avec les autres et leur octroyer les ressources pour les sortir de leur cocon est le but principal de 1525Terminus. C'est une organisation qui a aussi pour objectif de créer un espace artistique libre pour les jeunes d’un océan à l’autre. Projet pilote du ministère du Patrimoine canadien en partenariat avec le Conseil des Arts du Canada et le Centre national des Arts, ils font circuler......

Not to be left out of our collective goodwill, athletes across the world have rushed help with aid to the tsunami-devastated regions of southern Asia. Following the lead of many tennis and soccer stars, the “Biggest Private Donation Ever” was submitted by F1 champion Michael Schumacher during a German telethon Tuesday evening. The Ferrari driver has pledged US$10 million to his country’s world-leading effort. The NBA, with the contribution of Raptor guard Jalen Rose, is......

With the year coming to an end, Torontoist takes a look back at the sporting highs and lows of the past 12 months. Here's the best, the worst, and of course, Vince Carter at his wimpiest in 2004. 1. Argos Win the Grey Cup What else can we say about Mike Clemons’ pinballs? With no hockey and a worthless NBA team, the CFL gave Toronto something to cheer about. 2. Ron Artest & the Indiana......

While the mayor listened to Toronto on Sunday, another mayor listened to his constituents and made changes to his town's mobile home parks. Strangely, Mayor David Miller of TO, and Mayor David Miller of Elkhart (pop. 52,000), Indiana are grappling with many of the same problems. Mayor Miller of Toronto has introduced green bin recycling that will reduce garbage pick-up to every other week. Mayor Miller of Elkhart has decided to "reduce curb-side recycling pickup......

In what some are calling the worst sports brawl of all time, Indiana Pacers forward and fledging rap star Ron Artest charged the stands to fight with a fan in an NBA game last Friday night. In Auburn Hills, Mich., the Pacers were under a minute away from beating the Detroit Pistons when the Pistons' Ben Wallace took exception to a hard Artest foul. Wallace and Artest exchanged shoves, and moments later tempers were cooled......

Kinsey, we say, for this week's Friday Film. It's a study of a man who made a study of sex, though he first studied insects, and taxonomy. Indeed, after achieving eminence as the world's foremost gall wasp expert, Kinsey made the natural leap to studies of sex. As a prof at Indiana, he was first lauded, and later vilified for his work, groundbreaking studies on human sexuality that were shocking for their time. Of course,......