Remember when, if someone was shot on the streets of the GTA, neighbours would appear on TV saying something like "I'm shocked—you just don't expect things like this to happen here?" Those were the good old days in Kensington Market. Violent crime has always been part of the area (usually it's attributed to drugs or alcohol), but a spate of seemingly random shootings has neighbours a little freaked out. On May 15, a 24-year-old......

If you are of blog-reading age there is a good chance you either didn't see Star Wars in its initial theatrical release or were taken by your parents not too long after kicking that whole toilet-training thing. At the time George Lucas wasn't even sure he had anything good on his hands but, of course, it has since turned into a cultural touchstone and a source of even more money than Han Solo could imagine......

For the entire month of May, the Deep Wireless festival will be taking place at various venues, from the west end to your very own living room. Presented by New Adventures in Sound Art, this is the sixth edition of the annual festival that explores the medium of experimental sound and radio art. Don't let the idea of experimental audio art put you off. It's far more accessible than it sounds, and with a......

For two weeks in May, a 1280-cubic-foot shipping container at an as-of-yet-unannounced location along Queen Street West will serve as the temporary home for Jeremy Lynch's fascinating Containers exhibit. The Canadian-raised Lynch's "individual art project, free from any Institutional or Corporate participation" is relatively straightforward but utterly unique: he makes hundreds of "3d street art from used 35mm film containers and plastic toy figures" and places them around the streets of Toronto and Berlin.......