We love Word on the Street but we always find there's way too much to do. So we've scoured the WOTS program and picked out the three things that you should try to hit up this Sunday at Queen's Park. Best of all, the whole event is free. 1) Margaret Atwood and the Long Pen (The Long Pen Tent, reading at 11am, signing all-day) Hear the grand dame of CanLit read from her new book.......

The Gladstone Hotel hosts the second annual Doug Wright Awards this evening, honouring achievement in Canadian cartooning. The nominees for Best Book are: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly Books) Wimbledon Green by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly Books) Dragonslippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like by Rosalind B. Penfold (Penguin Canada) Paul Moves Out by Michel Rabagliati (Drawn & Quarterly Books) Scott Pilgrim Volume 2 by Bryan......

Torontoist has long felt that Canadian history, our most dreaded subject all through secondary school, is always better left to the theatre artists. The talented folks over at Video Cabaret persist in proving us right with the latest installment of Michael Hollingworth's 15-play cycle The History of the Village of the Small Huts. The Canadian Pacific Scandal is play number six in a series that chronicles the history of our nation from New France to......

Sarah Vowell, Writer, Humourist, Cartoon Character Voice...

We’ve discussed our concerns about the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Committee in earlier posts: the project’s liability to be stalemated by the presence of foot-dragging bureaucrats including the King of the Hall himself, Mayor Miller, whether the establishment of a ‘design steering committee’ is an unnecessary additional formality, etc. Last week’s meeting of the publicly-owned TWRC marked an important step towards the project’s actual implementation: Daniels Corp., Tridel Corp. and Concord Adex Developments Corp were......

This weekend the Toronto Reference Library opens a graphic novel show with works by "leading graphic novelists such as Seth, Chester Brown, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Julie Doucet, Marjane Satrapi, R. Crumb and many more." It'll be up at the TD Gallery Space until March 20, but there will be intermittent gallery talks as well, including a free one in February with Chester Brown, creator of the brilliant (and brilliantly stolen from TOist by an......