Reg Hartt, everyone's favourite dude with a movie theatre in his basement, is promoting the new(ish) film version of off-Broadway tittilator Naked Boys Singing by screening a mini Queer Film Festival at the Cineforum over the next few weeks. Each Thursday night for the next four weeks, he'll screen Naked Boys (which is exactly what it sounds like) at 9, with a different gay movie as a lead-in at 7. While the main attraction......

Toronto-based Naked News (NSFW, duh), which already broadcasts both an English and Japanese version, will soon also be available in Spanish, Italian and Korean. That's right. While other newsrooms are cutting back, laying off correspondents, and eliminating foreign bureaus, Naked News is (insert your pun of choice here). If you are not familiar with the Naked News phenomenon, the site offers subscribers 22 minutes of headlines, light news, and celebrity interviews, six days a......

Developers RioCan bought the parking lot at the corner of Queen Street West and Portland back in 2005. Immediately, rumours started to circulate that a big box store, like Home Depot, was going to be built at the site. At the time, The Globe and Mail reported that RioCan planned to start building in 2007. Which is now. So what's happening with the project? In August 2006, Spacing Wire reported that activists had met......

The World Naked Bike Ride wants to make a point that there are many things more offensive than a bare bum. The indecent exposure is not to some guy's twig n' berries, but to our polluted environment. On Saturday, Toronto was among 70 cities around the world that took a spin au naturel as a celebration of cycling, a protest against car culture, a comment on pollution, or just to express some exhibitionist tendencies.......

Saturday, June 9 is International Knit in Public Day, the holiday for people who view knitting as a lifestyle rather than a hobby. Fibre fanatics will be taking to the streets for a "yarn crawl" to spread the good word (of knitting, that is). The Toronto Knit Rabble will holding a crawl divided into West, North and Central teams which will slowly make their way across the city via TTC, hitting every yarn store......

So last night was the Oscars: Ellen DeGeneres was surprisingly enjoyable; there were not many upsets except perhaps The Departed for Best Picture (really?); Canada only won one award, Best Animated Short for The Danish Poet; Gwyneth Paltrow resembled a giant prawn. And not in a good way. Yesterday, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty went to Washington to persuade the U.S. to delay the new passport requirement for border crossings. McGuinty promised info-rich driver's licenses and......

When it’s minus something degrees outside and minus more degrees with the windchill, sitting and knitting in the warmth of your home is a good way to pass the time. Since indoor knitting is a luxury, why not throw something together for the less fortunate folks on the streets? Founded by Sadie Lewis, StreetKnit is a program that will bring your furry, fuzzy creations to the people who are in need of warmth. Be a......

Lt. Frank Drebin, Police Squad. Jerry Zucker, Hudson's Bay? Is the director of Ghost and the Naked Gun series buying up North America's oldest company? The Hudson's Bay Company, born in 1670, is being bought up by a North Carolina business type called Jerry Zucker. If the Zucker completes the takeover, with his astounding $1 billion ALL-CASH offer, questions as to how he'll proceed with the retailer arise: Perhaps get ethical with wages? Revamp the......

Oh stop it! You love Jamie Oliver and you know it! In fact, everybody loves Oliver; he's smart, funny, cute, British, um..smart. And he can cook. The affable Oliver will be in Toronto this weekend for the launch of his Professional Series by Tefal cookware and Advance Silicone bakeware. Meet Jamie in-person on Saturday, November 20 from 1 pm - 3 pm at The Bay on Queen St., 8th floor Arcadian Court. If you happen......

The headline for this post wrote itself, in as much as the title of Canadian/gay/polaroid-lovin/tryptych happy Evergon's lecture at Hart House tonight is actually called Let's Get Naked. Fitting indeed, as most of Evergon's lithe and lovely subjects are shot naked. Fitting indeeder, because Evergon's even shot portraits of his confidently normal mum in the buffest of buffs. Torontoist enjoyed the occasional Evergon siting and/or lecture in the hallowed halls of Concordia Fine Arts -......