TYPE's new home on the Danforth. Photo by Val Dodge. You know your avenues have been gentrified when a chi-chi bookstore moves into the neighbourhood. Such is the fate of the Danforth strip, now home to the latest branch of Toronto retailers TYPE Books, the third location to crop up since the store first opened its doors in 2006. The inaugural Queen West location (right across the street from Trinity-Bellwoods) made a name for......

Torontoist had a major hard-on for Toro Magazine during its four-year run as Canada's handsomest glossy. So when the thinking lad's mag shrivelled up back in spring 2007 (proving, sadly, that subscribers and awards mean little without advertisers and government funding), its sudden absence from newsstands left us frustrated and unfulfilled. Investigative reporting, social commentary, witty essays, and tits? We couldn't find all this between the sheets of any other rag in the country.......

To those uninitiated to the ways of Next-Gen gaming, the huge lineups outside of the Yonge-Dundas square Future Shop and the Eaton Centre Best Buy could have seemed quite frightening. Are all these young, would-be hooligans planning a gigantic car heist of Gone in 60 Seconds proportions? Why are they eagerly talking about running people over, the Russian mafia, and a new targeting system that they simply can't wait to try out? Of course,......

Attention, stalkers of local multihyphenate Tyler Clark Burke: either you'll have to figure out how to be in two places at once this weekend, or you'll be flipping a coin. Heads: from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, TCB fetes her new exhibit, "A Murder of Vs," at Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (also known as a "gallery," located at 1086 Queen Street West). The artist promises "paintings and sculpture and prisms" (oh my!)......

In 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to visit space in his ship Vostok 1. Flying high above our blue planet, he remarked, "Circling the earth in my orbital spaceship I marvelled at its beauty. People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty, not destroy it!" Forty years later, two space enthusiasts from California, Loretta Hidalgo and George Whitesides, realized that this occasion was not being fully celebrated by......

Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. Dear Torontoist, I'm a recent transplant from Nova Scotia and I am stuck as to where I should pay homage to my Irish roots this March 17th? Where can I go to enjoy some Celtic music and brews that won't be overrun with students? My Tuesday morning hangover depends on you, Love, Laura.......

With temperatures finally floating above zero, tonight's the tonight to dance and drink away the dregs of winter. And tomorrow morning? Head to the Gladstone Hotel for hangover brunch at noon... then start the party all over again with Shameless Magazine. The glossy for "girls who get it" is fêting the launch of the latest issue at the Gladstone Ballroom from 1—4 p.m. Saturday, March 15, with a something-for-everyone celebration. Star performers include Emma......

Torontoist Environment Editor Chris Tindal is currently engaged in a federal by-election campaign. This weekly column is an attempt to offer a behind the scenes glimpse into what it's like to be that mysterious Other: a politician. Last night was our first public all-candidates debate in this campaign. Hosted by the Bay Corridor Community Association in the Sutton Place Hotel, it was extremely well attended by an engaged audience. For those of us who recognize......

Photo by Arieh Singer from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The hearts-and-kisses holiday isn't just for cute couples and kindergarten kids, no siree—or, uh, madam-ee! After the hop, skip and jump, Torontoist has Valentine's Day (or night) suggestions for every romantic situation.......

It's hard out there for a scenester these days. So many parties, so many DJs, so many Next Big Things... and so few brain cells to spare. We all know how important it is to like the right stuff, but between finding hot new ways to wear neon headgear (hint: there aren't any) and figuring out which prescription drugs don't mix, who has the mental energy to figure what exactly that stuff is? That's why......

Miss the fourth installation of YO! Remember the 90's?? As if! Unless you're totally clueless when it comes to comebacks, you know the nineties are the dopest thing since, like, the eighties. And if you don't, you oughta know. No, we're not talking overplayed nu-rave, just good old-fashioned dance mixes: hip-hop, pop and rock, plus all the one-hit wonders it's cool to like now that there's a decade of ironic distance between you and your......

Strap on your tux or taffeta this Friday, February 1 and head down to WhipperSnapper Gallery (587A College Street) for Let's Get Hitched. The youth art collective throws notoriously awesome shindigs: "Whippersnapper openings are essentially hip house parties," we said in an article about their last exhibit Push It: "Think Pitchfork-approved background music, College kids in tortoise-shell glasses, and red wine in plastic cups." All the cool kids are going, so why aren't you?......

1963 was basically the Year of the Fly: think Warhol, The Beatles, The Feminine Mystique and all kinds of awesome. If you're into free love and feminism (or cool feminist girls), join McClung's magazine for 1963 at The Social tonight, January 15, at 9 p.m. The retro-groovy party celebrates the launch of the Ryerson student publication's winter issue (and raises funds for the spring edition) and will feature rad DJ duo Camp So Chill.......

So we were on the TTC yesterday afternoon, eating cold leftover pasta and leafing through the Globe, when we came across this conversation between Sarah Hampson, Beppi Crosariol and Sue Riedl about the etiquette of public eating. Read it yourself if you like, but we’ve gone to the trouble of summarizing the highlights. Apparently there are "unspoken rules" about eating in public (they’re unspoken, and yet, Hampson notes, "no one ever talks about them." Curious.)......

Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings of Penis Photos for Make Benefit Glorious Flat World of......

Back To School* Cheat Sheet: Thursday, September 21st @ The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) Doors at 9pm ▪ $5 cover ▪ 19+** Featuring: Dollarama ▪ Idiots! The Ghost is Dancing ▪ DJ Wes Allen Summer is all but done. The sun's gone into hiding. Sure, the Film Festival is going strong, but when Brad Pitt leaves, what's left? Evenings of studying, or, worse, working, reminiscing about how much you miss studying? Another long, depressing......

newmindspace have a knack for organizing heavily attended, wildly fun events around the city. Using their accumulated knowledge from throwing subway parties on both NYC's MTA and Toronto's TTC, they have created an online guide. Through first hand experience, the guide covers how to make it fun, logistics, what to watch out for, and goes into the pros and cons of a morning rush hour commute party versus a midnight empty car takeover. newmindspace have......

The New It Spot has no fixed address, a $2.50 cover charge and unfortunately closes too early. Yes, we're talking about the subway. Torontoist's Sean Lerner has written about last week's knit-off, on the TTC, we've also written about Subway Parties and now we have Toronto's Live with Culture campaign gussying up Eglinton station and 10 subway cars. Sadly, drinking on the TTC is still highly discouraged. As for picking up that hottie reading today's......