Results tagged “lastfriday”

Since fake pharmaceutical ads for a drug called "Obay" starting appearing across Ontario (and elsewhere) last week, everyone from street artist Frank Shepard Fairey (aka OBEY) to Scientologists to comedian Maggie Cassella has been fingered as the culprit behind them.

Last Friday, Torontoist published an article about Posterchild's latest project––fake subway fliers. On Sunday, the Sun published an article about the same topic, with a paragraph that was identical to a portion of Torontoist's article.

At random intervals, two Torontoist staffers square off to debate an issue that's important to our city. We invite our readers to join the debate in the comments section following the post.

Among the dangers of a heavy Toronto snowfall is the treachery of intersections when it all begins to melt. Last Friday in the Annex we needed a labyrinthine contingency route to avoid falling knee-deep in icy slush.

Last Friday, when excerpts from Michael Ignatieff's Blood & Belonging were posted, Torontoist thought it to be rather old news. Instead, it cause a minor comment fury from Liberal supporters, and included this harrassing email:

Founded by Jason Taniguchi, a U of T student in 1989, the group's rules are simple, and often involve filling up at Harvey's, if the food at the intended restaurant is too disgusting or too expensive. And diners number anywhere from a handful to 400 individuals.

Tonight is the 2005 Toronto Fringe lottery party, the event where the plays that will be appear in the theatre festival next summer are selected at random. Torontoist will be at the Tranzac club at 7 p.m. crossing her fingers that her one-woman show – Adventures of a Blog Girl in Search of God – gets picked and wishes best of luck to all local theatricals in the draw.