The Fringe is almost upon us! The nineteenth annual Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival starts this Wednesday, and as any experienced Fringer can tell you, it's good to be prepared. After all, you have only twelve days to navigate your way through a record-breaking 140 pieces of theatre. And this is why your good buddy Torontoist has decided to give you a bit of a break by coming up with a few suggestions of......

It's Thursday, which means it's the first day of North By Northeast and the end of our previews. In the final installment of our NXNE recommendations, we'll guide you through the best that Saturday has to offer. And, if we may say so, Saturday has a lot of good stuff to offer. Before heading out, you may want to fuel up at the 2nd Annual Back Lot BBQ put on by Six Shooter Records. It......

It's NXNE Eve! One last chance to get a decent sleep before you find yourself staggering home at 4 a.m. for three nights in a row. Before we get to our picks, there are a couple of special Friday happenings that we feel the need to tell you about. First off is the East MEATS West BBQ happening at Global Village Backpackers (460 King St. W.) from 1–7 p.m. Presented by Kelp Records, Saved By......

Every weekday for the last two weeks, Torontoist faced off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and our readers decided the outcome. This weekend is the final match. View the full ladder here. Some last words: This is it, folks. We've laughed, we've cried, and the final contenders are a smelly, crack infested, beautifully funky, walkable, human-scale utopia, and a spit of sand formed by a hurricane that also plays host......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Today's matches, Finals: Kensington Market vs. The EnvironmentROM Crystal vs. Toronto Islands Polls after the jump.......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Today's matches, Region III + IV, Quarterfinals: 501 Queen streetcar vs. The EnvironmentKensington Market vs. Bike Lanes Polls after the jump.......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Today's matches, Region III + IV, Quarterfinals: ROM Crystal vs. 416CN Tower Ice vs. Toronto Islands Polls after the jump.......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Today's matches, Region III + IV, Quarterfinals: The Annex vs. Bike LanesTaste of the Danforth vs. Kensington MarketThe Environment vs. IllegalSigns.ca Lower Bay vs. Queen streetcar Polls after the jump.......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights: Kensington Market turns out the lights on Nuit Blanche (118 - 95): Dizzy from the smell of fish, Nuit Blanche stumbles in this epic battle of nocturnal versus somnambulant. Al Waxman named MVP of Kensington for numerous slam dunks. IllegalSigns.ca revokes Dufferin Grove's permit (109......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights: ROM Crystal's sharp edges cut Miller's Hair (104 - 101): In the closest and most depressing match of the tournament so far, a napkin sketch gone wild shears the mayor's golden locks from atop his head. The late game upset may qualify for a recount......

We've finished up our TIFF Preview, so today we begin our daily coverage of the festival, beginning with this, our picks for the first day. Or as we should perhaps say, the first night, because the festival doesn’t really kick off until this evening, other than one screening (Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute, sneaking in early). It’s rather odd that the opening Gala isn’t literally the first film, but we guess that’s the way it......