This what a bioterrorist looks like, according to the FBI. Dr. Steven Kurtz (right) is a Professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo and member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), an art and theatre collective co-founded by Kurtz and his late wife, Hope. In May 2004, the Kurtzes were preparing a piece called Free Range Grains, which allowed participants to test food for the presence of genetically modified organisms, when Hope died of heart failure......

What started off as a magazine about education issues in Canada has gone on over the years to serve as a springboard for dozens of Canada's best journalists: people like Naomi Klein, Rick Salutin, Stan Persky, Margaret Atwood and others. Well Torontoist is happy to wish This Magazine a happy 40th birthday and wish them many more years of publication success. Come celebrate with the gang at This magazine Wednesday at the Gladstone Hotel, starting......

Torontoist has written about upstart U of T publication the Naive Journal before, and remembers being impressed by the publication's attempts to look at an overexposed topic (i.e. homelessness) with fresh eyes. The Naive's next issue, the zine's fourth, explores the well-travelled ground of the consumer/anti-consumer debate. The editors at the Naive Journal recap some of the debate's feister contests like U of T alumnus turned globe-trotting anti consumerist documentary maker Naomi Klein vs. cheeky,......

Not to Thunder Bay or anything, just up to York University. Art lovers can check out Governor General Award winning video artist Istvan Kantor at the Art Gallery of York University. Controversial is the word thrown around when describing Kantor’s work. His regularly uses blood in his work and has been kicked out and had a restraining order placed on him by the National Gallery of Canada. Interestingly his works are now in the National......

We like indie power couple Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. We really do. But, like thongs and poorly developed film, they're over-exposed. Torontoist genuinely wants to see The Take, the duo's first foray into documentary, and a moving tale of Argentine workers. That said, having to listen to them on every CBC program last week, and see their smiling mugs on the telly ad nauseum left Torontoist a little Brand Naomi'ed out. But if you've......