At their crudest, graffiti tags are generally used for the artist’s personal aggrandizement. While it is not uncommon for graffitists to tag the names legendary celebrities (Tupac anyone?) much more rare is the tagger who promotes the work of classical composers posthumously. Recently, tags of the name of the Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler mysteriously appeared on the Queen Street Bridge and along Lake Shore Boulevard East. Who is this culturally aplomb tagger and why......

Yesterday saw clear skies above Toronto but thick fog hanging low to the ground. This was taken from the Bathurst Street bridge looking west, with the fog swallowing the condos along Lake Shore Blvd. More images after the jump.......

Top photo by News46 from the Torontoist Flickr pool; bottom photo by Marc Lostracco. Caribana celebrations are still underway down on Lake Shore West and elsewhere in the city, and hundreds of thousands watched today's spectacular masquerade celebrating this year's theme of "Petit Monde." Torontoist was in the mas camps and the parade for a photo roundup, which can be seen after the jump.......

A partially demolished building at Lake Shore and Bathurst makes way for another condo development. Photo by Miles Storey.......

A morning crash has closed off a Gardiner exit ramp and yesterday's burst water main repairs continue to block motorists. Workers will be reconstructing Lake Shore Boulevard over the next 24 hours. Burst water mains will be around for awhile: Toronto has one of the highest failure rates for water mains in Canada. Toronto's backlog of repairs to the system will take about 8 years to flush out. The number of Asian tourists in Toronto......