Photo of Hollerado courtesy of Hollerado. It’s day three of Canadian Music Week, and you can feel the excitement in the air. Before we get started with today’s preview though, we have a couple of public service announcements: German rockers 4LYN have cancelled their show at Clinton’s Tavern due to ill health, and Hollerado are looking for a place to crash for the night. Apparently they’ll make you nachos. Where were we? Right. There......

Beginning today, Monday, November 19, photos from 69––Torontoist's photo-essay of all of the city's TTC stations––will be featured on the TTC's OneStop screens as part of the organization's new project, "Station Portraits." If you weren't tired of the photos from 69 when they ran on Torontoist all summer in 2006, now you really will be: for thirty seconds every ten minutes or so, the screens will take a reprieve from displaying ads and public......

If you loved (or hated) MasterCard skating to the rescue of Toronto's outdoor rinks this winter, you'll love (or hate) one of the city's other sponsorship innovations: traffic signals. Yes, Toronto allows—encourages—corporations to pay for the installation of audible pedestrian signals (APS) at the intersections of their choice. In return, companies receive free advertising space at each location declaring their largesse and the city's poverty. Asked about the practice of allowing private companies to......

Donald Trump's Toronto hotel will only be 57 storeys, rather than 70. Experts explain that this is because Donald Trump's penis is smaller than previously believed. (Extra hilarity from The Donald's spokesperson: "The more residents we had, the more the elevators were going to be used and that wasn't what we wanted in an exclusive building like the Trump." Yes. Pity the poor, poor elevators. You have to know that Donald Trump worries about the......

As a public service to fans planning to catch the Blue Jays' home opener on Monday night, we offer a prescription for enjoying the game from the team's debut season. Given the current weather, will the 30th anniversary opener be as snowy as the first? You can debate whether Canada was still a child when Gordon Tamblyn purchased a drug store at Queen St. E. and Lee Ave in 1904. By the early 1930s,......

Apple unveils the iPhone. Entire bunches of interwebs go nuts over possibilities created by what is, when you get right down to it, just another fancy cellphone. Seriously, this isn't the iPod. This isn't a new class of product. This is at best a slight improvement on existing things to which we already had access. The iPhone will not do your hair, manage your diet or make you generally sexier. (Okay, it might make......

It seems to be the week of Alexisonfire, who are playing just about every venue in the city over the next 7 days, starting on Thursday. We predict a few bruised ribs and black eyes just in time for Christmas...so kids, if you're going to the show(s), be a little gentler to each other knowing that your parents will be pissed if you're posing for the holiday photos with a shiner. This public service......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate......

It seems only fitting that during Canada Blooms Torontoist should take a walk down the botony road and explore the wonders of an innnocent super-plant recently brought to our attention. Meet Salvia. Salvia Divinorum that is; she's a multi-purpose plant with powers beyond just smelling and looking pretty. Torontoist first heard of this mysterious "legal drug"/plant by the RnRn. Curiosity piqued...it must be tried. A quick trip to Roach-o-Rama and $40 later, it was straight......

Perhaps you've seen those sneaky ads for Virgin Mobile on the subway lately? You know, the ones that masquerade as public service ads about STDs and implore you to visit www.curethecatch.ca? Well, Catch 23 has absolutely nothing to do with those irritating advertisements! No siree, Catch 23 is a weekly improv competition that takes place at Clinton's Tavern (corner of Clinton and Bloor) every Monday night. This week is an extra-special one for the funnymen......