If you like dancing and the TTC, this is probably the sweetest thing you will see today (other than, maybe, that Spadina Bus video). On Saturday afternoon, Jared Alleyne––inspired by Toronto's Improv Everywhere–inspired stunts like the Eaton Centre freeze and the no-pants subway ride––organized a small group to fill a Yonge-University subway car with spontaneous, unsolicited, and definitely unchoreographed dancing. We'd say more, but the video above pretty much does all the talkin' for......

Photo by Media Eater. It's hard to believe that it's been 12 years since DJ Shadow dropped his groundbreaking debut, Endtroducing .... Since then, the Bay Area DJ has helped form the respected indie hip hop label Quannum Projects and released a couple of lesser acclaimed albums including 2006's hyphy influenced, The Outsider. Since then, DJ Shadow has been working with fellow crate digger and former Jurassic 5 DJ, Cut Chemist. The pair will......

No, you are not mistaken; Michael Bublé, Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie are all passing through the city this week. Imagine Michael Bublé (for some unknown reason) making a vocal cameo during Ozzy’s sure-to-be "Crazy Train" encore? Best mash-up, ever! Or not. Ozzy, Michael, and that ridiculous idea aside, there is a show worthy of your attendance for reasons beyond an ideal encore. On Saturday, January 26, The Tranzac will be hosting the CD......

Photo by Jeremy Farmer from Flickr. It’s an end of an era as the popular indie night Easy Tiger shuts it down on Friday after a 14 month-run. A hipster haven, Easy Tiger is responsible for introducing hundreds of people to the booze can downstairs of College Street Diner that is Tiger Bar. Midland’s finest, Born Ruffians (pictured), will take the stage and the Easy Tiger DJs will spin the tunes. Expect plenty of......

The new Future Shop at Dundas and Yonge opened Friday, and as shoppers entered they were warmly greeted...by a projection. "Aaron" scrolls through at least six messages, which include guessing you're a Scorpio and asking if your bag is big enough. On Saturday afternoon, customers seemed to ignore the greeter avatar while heading into the store. Here's hoping Future Shop gets the hint. If you need more of Aaron, you can also find him......

Last year, 26-year-old Ines Markeljevic had an idea. Why not try and set a Guinness World Record for the most people doing the Thriller dance? "I'd been doing the Thriller dance for nine years. It was my own sort of Halloween tradition," she says. She had learned the dance as a teenager, and had performed it not only at Halloween, but also for charity events and dance competitions. "For my tenth year, I wanted......

As we've told you a few dozen times over the past two weeks, Torontoist's revised TTC survey ends tonight. After a few e-mails to various deep and dark corners of the TTC, we've connected with Michael Anders, the TTC’s Market Research Director and the man in charge of the Public Consultation Survey. Anders is waiting on our data––which, as of right now, consists of some 2,200 unique responses. Hopefully it can be put to......

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.......

Each week, Torontoist chooses the most interesting cases from the Toronto Police Service crime blotter. All charges are alleged until proven under law. • An investigation is underway about a man posing as a police officer who is allegedly stealing personal belongings in the Entertainment District. The guy apparently uses imitation police equipment to gain entry into clubs, then steals unattended purses and mobile phones. Real cops are mandated to carry specific identification, which they......

March 8th marks International Women's Day each year, though it's sadly not yet a national holiday in Canada, as it is in a few countries. But official holiday or not, there are still a tonne of events happening in Toronto to mark the occasion. Here are some of Torontoist's best bets for celebrating feminism this week: Today The National Film Board and Amnesty International present a free screening of Killer's Paradise, a documentary about the......

For the long-suffering fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the year 1967 has become synonymous with past glories and forty years of failure. On Saturday night, the surviving members of the last Leaf team to win the Stanley Cup were reunited at the Air Canada Centre for the first time since that storied championship. An Alex Trebek-narrated video tribute began the proceedings, in what turned out to be a relatively simple, modest, and perhaps......

On Saturday, at 401 Richmond's Red Head Gallery, artist Robin Pacific began giving away her entire personal library of 1,670 books in a conceptual art installation called "Shelf Portrait." If you heard about this over the last couple of weeks and it occurred to you that a well-publicized giveaway of free, interesting books in downtown Toronto on a Saturday might draw a bit of a crowd, well, you were right. Torontoist is happy to......

Believe or not there are rivers in Toronto other than the Don and the Humber. Back in the day downtown Toronto was crisscrossed by streams like Taddle Creek and the Garrison. Most of these were abused by settlers and used as sewers, dumping grounds and finally buried. But this weekend the Toronto Public Space is going to try to bring the Garrison, the largest of Toronto's buried rivers back to the surface, metaphorically. On Saturday......

Excuse me for the lateness of this week’s listing. I’m still on Nuit Blanche time. And yes, I made it until 7am. This is an absolutely fantastic week for word nerds. And check this – if one of your friends is more into sports, you can bring them to a literary event disguised as a boxing match. For a boxing fan like me, it doesn't get any better. Tomorrow at noon, there’s a special launch......

Before embarking on your Nuit Blanche evening, take a few minutes to load up your iPod. Artist Lewis Kaye has put together a series of MP3s intended to act as your audio companion for the night. Each track is tailored to a specific Nuit Blanche event. Download the audio files here. Below, we've picked five "must see" events from Nuit Blanche's Zone A -- art events happening in and around Yorkville. All of the events......

Everyone sufficiently recovered from Word on the Street? Over 200,000 people braved the wind and rain and descended upon Queen’s Park for a celebration of books. I have a book hangover, thus the lateness of this week’s listings. Tomorrow night, This Is Not A Reading Series goes Hollywood! Journalist and filmmaker Bruce Yaccato launches Screen Legends, a chronicle of the “Canadian film pioneers who helped build the Hollywood we know today.” Joining Bruce will be......

The last 10 days have been a great time to be a film nut, but now Christmas comes early for book nerds as over the next few weeks two of the biggest events of the year take place, starting with next Sunday’s Word on the Street, which will be followed by the start of the International Festival of Authors in mid-October. A few events taking place today. Poet Lorette C. Luzajic launches her first book,......

You'd have to be a curmudgeon not to like the Bicycles. It's hard to hate a band that opens a show with painted cardboard standups of various band members, sing Archies/Monkees inspired songs about girls from Montreal and visits to Australia, and fill their shows with handclaps, tambourines and harmonies that come straight from a 1970s bubblegum pop record. So we're happy to report that Bicycles have not only released their debut album "The Good......

On Saturday, we had the opportunity to check out Andy Warhol / Supernova : Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962–1964 at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The exhibit which runs from July 8th to October 22nd features the darker side of Andy Warhol and is guest-curated exclusively for the AGO by film director David Cronenberg.......

Part of the networked city, the pigeon condo has been erected down at Yonge and Lakeshore, under the Gardiner. Promo material explains: Pigeon Condo is developing luxury housing for pigeons at the desirable intersection of Yonge Street and the Lakeshore Boulevard, in the heart of Toronto's revitalized waterfront. Showings of the presentation suite are happening this weekend, On Saturday (June 3rd) Tej Ajji will speak about gentrification, there will be pigeon feeding and model......

Fashion Cares will be celebrating their 20th anniversary this year with a party that is sure to become a spectacle of 'drama, daring and dreams.' On Saturday, June 3rd, over 5,000 guests will converge upon the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for 'M.A.C. VIVA GLAM 20' in support of the AIDS Committee of Toronto. This year will be a bit of retrospective of the last 20 years, but the evening is sure to live up to......

A little while ago, Torontoist posted about a call for crafty submissions for a zine to be sold at Crafternoon Tea, well now it's time to let you all know that said crafty afternoon is coming up this weekend. Crafternoon Tea Spring Edition is "a spunky indie craft/fashion market, how-to hive and charity tea-room all in one." On Saturday the 27th, 40 local crafters will be selling their one-of-a-kind creations, there will be a raffle,......

The 'Dude' moniker oozes certain character traits; the man who goes by Dude tends to be a funny, laid-back, good-natured, likeable, marijuana smoker. On Saturday night, Devin the Dude lived up to his title. On the recommendation of a friend, Torontoist was on hand to witness the Houston emcee sing, rap, joke and smoke at the Reverb on Saturday night. And maybe it was the weather, or the recent TTC fare hikes, but we......

Torontoist wants to make sure we don't forget to send e-cards and presents to the lovely folks at Wavelength. The weekly indie music showcase is turning six and doing its best to top last year's excellent birthday festivities. Concerts start tommorow night with an ear blistering lineup at the Speakeasy (120 Church St.) that includes Anagram and Republic of Safety. But before all that rockin' out you can pick the brains of indie scenesters/stalwarts like......

'Ladies and Gentlemen, live at the Apollo, all the way from Torontoooo, Canada, it's....Torontoist!' Wouldn't we love to hear that. But wouldn't anyone? Here's your chance: On Saturday, December 3, the Drake Hotel Underground offers the chance at a much-coveted Apollo Theatre spot. Apollo judges will host auditions starting at 11 am till 2 pm. The live spot would be a part of the 71st year of obviously Apollo amateur night. The Harlem theatre is......

This Halloweekend is packed with scary activities. - On Sunday the Mexican Consulate is helping Harbourfront with Day of the Dead celebrations, which include dancing, food and a workshop on how to make 'sugar skulls.' Also, a claymation short about a man who realizes being dead isn't so bad. - On Saturday there's a superstar graphic novelist panel with Seth, Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Chip Kidd, to be moderated by the delightfully exhuberant......

Is there a word for fear of lines? queuphobia? Whatever. TIFF has nearly passed, and as the media environment clears of five-minute celebrity interviews and capsule reviews, a whole array of other cinematic choices emerge. - On Saturday Trinity Square Video presents short local docs about everyday life in TO, as part of the Queen West Art Crawl. 7 and 9pm screenings at Camera bar. - Jon Heder in a Reese Witherspoon pseudoRomCom? And he's......

We didn't actually spend the weekend with Crispin Glover (we didn't buy him breakfast or anything), but it got pretty close. On Saturday, Torontoist was creeping around Rue-Morgue’s Festival of Fear in hopes of catching CG for a one-on-one. Instead, we got a front row seat at his ‘Intimate and Interactive.’ Our hopes of questioning Glover regarding hate-on for Jaws director Steven Speilberg was dashed by a combination of fawning questions ("You’ve played some......

Yesterday, while listening to NPR for the obvious reasons, we heard a terrific interview with Ralph Fiennes. Terrific because at the very end of the interview, Leonard Lopate throws a curve at the pointy actor by asking him why he pronounces his name Rayfe. A short pause follows, and then Fiennes cobbles together an answer along the lines of 'that is actually how it was pronounced historically.' Now if we could only ask Chloë Sevigny......

- Is Altoids behind what is rumoured to be the summer comedy of the summer? If not, the mint manufacturer's geekchic campaign of a few summer's back and Carrell's gradeschool portrait poster are a little too close for comfort. Which makes us wonder whether The 40 Year-Old Virgin will be better or worse than a curiously strong peppermint. Better we hope, and the reviews seem to give faith to that fragile hope. - Not......