Following the 2005 crash of an Air France A340, the airline is suing the GTAA for having a ravine at the end of runway 24L instead of a safe overrun margin. A coroner's inquest into a 1978 crash at Pearson recommended installing a 300-metre safety apron, but nothing became of it. Air France continues to operate aircraft on runway 24L, but under the name Air Chance. A passenger called the fuzz on a TTC......

Torontoist is ahead of the game for previewing some of the best music choices this week (Queen West fire benefit, Forest City Lovers' CD release) but Musicologist will give you one more recommendation—just for kicks. When UK’s Field Music announced a (begrudged) break last year, who knew David Brewis would be in Toronto playing a show under a different name and clean ethos so quickly? School of Language and their debut LP Sea From Shore......

Eight months after Torontoist, Reading Toronto, Spacing, and BlogTO all banded together to solicit reader comments to improve the TTC's website and after Adam Giambrone agreed to re-open the Request for Proposal (RFP) to allow for "a more ambitious and exciting project," there has finally been some news to report of late. Last week, Adam Giambrone told Torontoist that the website would launch sometime in the fall, and would definitely feature everyone's top request––a......

Where can you find popcorn lovers and peaceniks together? At a politically conscious film fest—in a park, no less! Tomorrow is the final night of Peace Reel: an anti-war focused outdoor film festival co-presented by the Toronto-based collective, Artists Against War (AAW) and by CitizenShift, an initiative of the National Film Board. Over the past month, Peace Reel has organized a free Sunday-night series of short films and documentaries at Christie Pits Park. This week,......

All photographs in this article courtesy of Much Music. In the harsh cold light of the morning of June 18th, it’s time to step back a bit and take a look at the overall experience of liveblogging the MMVAs. What did we think? Well, firstly, in retrospect, we feel kind of bad about just how badly we cussed a lot of celebrities—particularly those who hit the little stage. In general, the blame may actually......

RISE/ABOVE at Dundas Street & University Avenue. You probably haven't seen the arrows around our city unless you've been looking for them—or looking up. Scattered throughout downtown Toronto are forty-three arrows just like the one pictured, all carefully hung high above street level by an globe-trotting artist known, appropriately, as ABOVE. In what ABOVE calls "Word/Play," each side of an arrow (or "Arrow Mobiles") contains one half of a pairing of words. The signs......

We don't normally care much for internet quizzes (nobody really cares what Sailor Moon character we are, right?). But today we caved when we saw one on Digg that piqued our interest: it claimed to be able to identify what kind of American accent we have. We thought it'd be fun, in an attempt to further explore that whole "we have no cultural identity of our own and are just like Americans in every single......

How is National Poetry Month treating you? On the second week of celebration, Torontoist is beginning to buckle a little under the strain of too much fun, but it warms our hearts to witness the large number of bookish events offered this April. We are happy to announce the winners of our poetry contest as part of the nationwide festivities. Back in January, Torontoist launched a Toronto poetry contest to encourage the writing of......

At approximately 8:38 am yesterday, Toronto-based director Deepa Mehta (above) and producer David Hamilton learned that they were Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film for their work on Water. They learned of their nomination like most of us did, watching Salma Hayek announcing a list of names live on CNN. “They announce the nominees in alphabetical order, and when they got to the fifth name without announcing Volver, we thought we were......

One of Toronto’s newest literary series, Toronto Wordstage (which is run by Allan Briesmaster, John Calabro, Beatriz Hausner, and Lucianno Iacobelli) celebrates its 13th edition this evening with a stellar line-up of writers. Tonight’s event will feature novelist and playwright Michael Wex (Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods); poet Rafi Aaron (Surviving the Censor: The Unspoken Words of Osip Mandelstam); Sonia D’Agostino; and poet a. rawlings (pictured, and author of......

Evelyn Reese: lover, fighter, secretary. Adorned in a fox-fur and chain-smoking to boot, our dear Ms Reese really shines though with stories of her past loves, her family Christmas parties and her poofter friends. As she shimmies bow-legged across the stage, her pink-fluo shoes wobble along beside her, as if trailing a train-wrecked life. The first half of the show was definite power-house comedy. But once the lights turn on for the second part,......

Usually a monthly occurrence at the Drake Hotel, Neutrino has a basic premise with an interesting twist. Rather than doing improv in front of the audience, the troupe leaves the theatre equipped with a couple of video cameras and do the show from the streets of Toronto. As someone noted upon leaving, it makes you look at the area differently, knowing that they has just filmed on those steps, near that bush, in the......

Quimby Bird, a thief by trade, faces the parole board in an attempt to be set free in exchange for the location of the recently stolen Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. He takes us through the several characters who played a role in the heist which ultimately landed him in prison. Stealing Venus seems to be what a Fr!nge show should be. Anton Smuts stars in this one-hander, masterfully portraying each character through clever......

Torontoist should have been tipped off by the glowing reviews from "Larri King," "Dr. Pheel," and "Star Joynes" printed on the inside of the program... But regardless, with an hour to kill, MAN-o-pause was on the agenda. Unfortunately titled, (only palely punningly referential), the rote plot is an historical account of a divorced gay man and a divorced straight woman's lives, from high school until their current 40s. What was supposed to be a......

If you're like Torontoist, you like to have a good time. You also like to save your money to be able to afford those aforementioned good times. Get ready to fork out more cash because the Ontario government has given Toronto new taxing powers, and the savings go directly to City Hall. The new legislation gives Toronto's city council the ability to impose more municipal taxes on alcohol served at bars and restaurants as......

Sometimes, on Torontoist’s laziest days, it will drag itself out of bed just long enough to flick on the BBC’s 6 music internet radio service, the BBC’s gift to the world’s fans of British indie music, to listen to the 6 music breakfast show, which for ages was almost always preceded by a Don Letts introduction, (if it wasn’t someone doing a bad impression of David Bowie doing the intro.) Which, to be honest, is......