These days, everyone and their grandmother has a celebrity gossip blog. Perez Hilton became a millionaire by outing Lance Bass and defacing paparazzi photos, while TMZ.com (named for the Thirty Mile Zone surrounding Hollywood) came out of nowhere in 2005 and almost instantaneously became the top site to see celebrities behaving badly. Sassafraz may be the closest we have to The Ivy, yet it's not stocked with a phalanx of paps, and celebrities can usually......

It’s not been a week since the Toronto International Film Festival left us, and this week’s new releases make it hard for us to move on despite a couple of TIFF premieres leading the way. We’ll start with Paul Haggis’ In The Valley of Elah, because he’s a good Canadian boy…or is he? It’s interesting to note that in the interviews with him in the weeklies about this film (a "murder mystery" about a......

Did you know that 26% of Ontarians believe in creationism? 42% of Canadians think dinosaurs and humans coexisted on earth. Check out these fun stats from a recent Angus Reid poll. Dalton McGuinty is launching a $650 million fund which will offer grants to Ontario automotive companies that build clean energy power generators. The goal? More electric, solar-powered, and wind-powered cars. The ideal? Emission-free vehicles that run on the feces of handbag dogs. T.O.......

We love The Patterns Trilogy. If we had more parties at our apartment, we’d have it running on our television or projected onto a wall, looping endlessly. Well, if we could be sure it wouldn’t hypnotize our guests (and ourselves) into a sublime stupefaction. Therefore, Trilogy of Trilogies, one of tonight’s Worldwide Short Film Festival programmes (playing at 7:15 p.m. at the Cumberland), which features The Patterns Trilogy along with The Saskatchewan Trilogy, is......

OMG! This week sees the release of Kickin' It Old Skool, a Jamie Kennedy vehicle. He plays a breakdancer who awakes from a 20-year coma and something that Jamie Kennedy probably considers hilarity ensues. We here at Torontoist Towers are astounded at the idea that somebody greenlighted a film with Jamie Kennedy in it. Absoultely gob-smacked. Moving on, Stone Cold Steve Austin plays Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man On An Island (The Condemned)......

Remember how lame grade nine science class was? Sure, we got to use Bunsen burners and there was a unit about sex, but the rest of the year consisted of really boring stuff like balancing equations and memorizing the periodic table. Too bad OSC.TV wasn’t around when we were 14. Memorizing the periodic table would have been a dream (speaking of dreamy, like, OMG, how totally cute is the scientist singer?)—after watching The Periodic Table......

Torontoist thinks it's pretty disprespectful when the din of bar chatter drowns out a performer, and our hearts go out to anyone who's ever tried to entertain a crowd of drunken patrons who think that opening acts are merely background music to obnoxious, beer-soaked conversation. Tim Perlich, NOW's longtime resident music crank, also finds issue with chatterbox barfolk, writing in this week's issue (p. 46) about Kelly Joe Phelps' show at Hugh's Room on March......

Damn it, Arcade Fire, why do you keep teasing us? Beginning at the end of this month (in support of their soon-to-be-released new album, Neon Bible) the band is playing five consecutive nights in three big cities -- and not one of them comes from the Iroquois word for "place where trees stand in the water" (that is, they're starting in London, then in Montreal, and ending in New York). Tickets for all fifteen shows......

Absolutely no one can think of an interesting way to introduce Bobcat Goldthwait’s return to feature direction, (after 1992’s Shakes the Clown) Sleeping Dogs Lie, because by the very nature of the film you’re forced to kind of explain that it’s about a woman sucking off a dog but really it’s a complex film about relationships. Anyway, now that’s over, we can say that we didn’t get a chance to see it at TIFF but......

Last night marked the second occasion of our favourite new quarterly amusement: Watching Cheesy Dance Movies With Toronto's B-girl Crew, Shebang! We arrived at the packed theatre to discover the primo second and third central rows of seating reserved with flimsy "Warning: Birthday Party Do Not Cross" tape. Throwing caution to the ground like so much spilt popcorn, we vaulted the tape and sat there anyway, only to find ourselves surrounded as the rows......

Frank over at OMG Blog passed along this ludicrous looking poster that he spotted along Queen West. It's yet another condo development with yet another silly marketing slogan, this time the Bohemian Embassy. Frank goes on to critique the co-option of the word bohemian by various things including Broadway musicals, and now really really inept condo marketers. David Brooks invented a word to describe the trend of the moneyed class aping poor, edgy, artist......

Torontoist thinks that we've done a good job of showing people that Torontonians throw away some pretty good stuff. Which makes us wonder why Michigan doesn't want our trash? We're practically giving the stuff away and those ungrateful Americans are actually trying to ban it. Seriously though, the threat of Michigan banning Toronto's garbage has floated over our heads for a long time but this time it's closer than ever according to this Reuters story.......

Okay, so, this week it’s definitely the Oscars! Everyone you know is probably all excited and arranging Oscar parties because, you know, Jon Stewart is presenting! He’ll be all edgy spelt with a ‘3’ and probably insult George Bush or something! Will he mention Cheney shooting a lawyer again? OMG that dude is the funny! Expect a muted performance from Stewart, so muted, in fact, that you’ll wonder if he’s wearing a ball gag. This......

Torontoist would like to self-select himself to be the Joan Rivers of the Untitled Art Awards. TUAA is arguably the city's best known visual arts award and judging from the nominees list a good chunk of the city's visual arts elite should be showing up. Last year's show had the Mayor eating an improvised meal to avant-garde jazz, acceptance speeches and beer, it was held at a brewery. What TUAA is missing is red......