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Despite extensive coverage by both online and print media, Monday's splitting of the 24-kilometre Queen streetcar route came as a bit of a surprise to many, necessitating lengthy explanations at the new turnpoints (Parliament, Shaw), as well as the odd enraged passenger (a particularly vocal, slightly off-kilter, middle-aged man waiting at Shaw screamed, "Where is the Long Branch and all those f**king c**ksuckers at?!"). In the name of research, Torontoist travelled the entire length of the route, beginning at Yonge and Queen, continuing all the way east to Neville Park, and then traversing the entire 24 kilometres to Long Branch, getting off and on as required. To see how we fared, see the photo gallery above.

Today's mini-celebration at the corner of Queen Street East and Lee Avenue was a historical event three years in the making. In early 2006, the Beaches BIA proposed the idea of branded street signs. Plans for new street signs citywide were put on hold while the city tried to secure a contract for street furniture, and they remained on hold until late 2008. Meanwhile, area residents were asked to vote on what name would appear on the signs: the Beaches or the Beach. Out of 2,113 eligible votes, 58% preferred "the Beach"—a somewhat surprising choice, since the neighbourhood seems to be most popularly known as "the Beaches." Glenn Cochrane, journalist and author of The Beach, spoke to this in his brief speech to the crowd today. "A few years ago, there would have been an uprising over the choosing of this new name over the other name, which I'm not going to mention because I don't want to start anything."

On the one hand, Alexander Muir, a schoolteacher and Orangeman who wrote Canada's confederation song, "The Maple Leaf Forever," in 1867, is a pretty important person in our country's history, totally deserving of an extraordinarily lovely mural on Queen Street East, in Leslieville.

Overheard by reader Jennifer Coghill on Queen Street East in the Beaches. Two women are pushing baby strollers.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

From Ryan Feeley comes a neat timelapse video of a three-kilometre westbound trip on the 501 Queen streetcar in the east end of the city condensed into fifty-five seconds. Now, we just need someone who can do the same thing with the whole length of the route. [Tip from Joe Clark, who, incidentally, has some things to say about Christian Lander and Hockey Night in Canada.]

According to the National Post, the Berkeley Playing Fields—the high-rise condo development that Torontoist reported on recently—is not going to happen.

Every so often a building is unveiled that causes Torontoist to twitter with preteen enthusiasm: "OMGz!!! WTF is that!? That is sooooo cool!!!" The ROM Crystal is one of them, the AGO is too, and so is the building pictured to the right. That building wasn’t so much unveiled as stumbled upon by Urban Toronto Forum member current, who saw the poster and thought it seemed pretty neat. But wait just one second—where’s the website? Where’s the contact info? Is this for real?

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

The ever-excellent Spacing is celebrating the launch of their latest issue––an "eco-friendly" one, pictured above––next Monday, December 3rd.

CityPulse. The New Music. Baby Blue Movies. City Lights. Fashion Television. Speaker's Corner. These programs are among the innovative shows that have aired on CityTV since it officially launched way up the dial 35 years ago this evening.

The Revue cinema is due to reopen its doors on October 4th, and if you’ve been waiting for the chance to buy tickets for the opening night, they’re now on sale at She Said Boom (393 Roncesvalles Avenue) at $20 for the film and the after-party or $10 for just the party at the Lithuanian Hall (1573 Bloor Street West). The opening night film is secret, but it was selected by an online poll, so it’s one of the films on this page, probably!

If you're not already exhausted on September 7 after trying to check out M.I.A., Stars, The Hidden Cameras, k-os, and You Say Party! We Say Die! playing for free for U of T and Ryerson's frosh, why not throw in a little free Yeah Yeah Yeahs for good measure?

There are lots of good reasons to increase your home's energy efficiency: you'll save money, take pressure off of Ontario's strained electrical grid, and lessen your contribution to the climate crisis, to name a few. But it can be hard to know where to start.

Once a year Toronto the Good becomes Toronto the very naughty.

Overhead just north of Queen Street East, after The National's show on Tuesday night. A very drunk woman and her two male companions are walking into the parking lot.

Early in May, Torontoist made it out to a free Long Winters concert at the Berkley Church. The show was terrific—we scored John Roderick's kazoo!—and, as it turns out, was just one episode in a series of shows put on for an HDTV channel in the States called called Rave HD. The aim of the show is to be something like "Sessions at West 45th," with a focus on capturing up-and-coming indie bands before they "make it big."

As the weather starts to get lovely, a band name has never seemed more appropriate. The Long Winters are playing a free show tonight in two hours and there are still (apparently) forty tickets left that they can give away. (We originally read about it on Chromewaves but were waiting to hear if there were enough tickets left to let our readers know.) If last October's show at Lee's was any indication, tonight's performance should be absolutely spectacular.

Yesterday, a friend wrote: We should work to accept that it is unknowable whether one (person, perception, point of view) is objective or subjective. The problem is that there's no test to know, or, if there is such a test, we have no way of knowing that the test works.

Whether you're Scottish or not, it's always fun to celebrate Robbie Burns Day on January 25th. The day is to celebrate the life and death of Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland who wrote such ditties as Auld Lang Syne and Comin' Thro' the Rye, the poem which is said to have inspired J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. He is also known for drinking a lot and womanizing even more, and by the time he died at the ripe old age of 37 in 1796, he had fathered nine children.

If Eastern (Toronto) art is your thing, you may want to check out the Riverdale Art Walk going on today and tomorrow. Don't let them scattered showers stop you from enjoying almost 100 RAW artists spread out through the Queen Street East district. With a multitude of shops, galleries and parks between Carroll Street and Leslie, RAW has never been better. Artists will also be featured at Jimmie Simpson Park at Booth Avenue, with a live mural demonstration on Carlaw Avenue.

The Disappearing City, an exhibition of photography by David Kaufman is on now until May 28th at the Bliss Gallery, 1402 Queen Street East.

2004 US presidential election, or note how ineffective Bono was at garnering the Edge 102 vote in the last election. In any case, Marilyn Churley, NDP candidate for Beaches-East York (pictured), has enlisted the help of Sarah Harmer for a canvass and performance on Sunday evening, January 15, at 2066 Lounge (2066 Queen Street East).

shebang, Toronto's hardest-working all girl breakdance troupe, throws its annual break and enter competition this Saturday, where teams compete for cash money and the title Best 4 on 4 crew or Best Bonnie & Clyde. The Saturday battle, 'one of Canada's biggest b-boy/girl' throwdowns, gets started at 5 pm at the Gallery (299 Queen Street East). DJs Dalia, Fase and Ted Dancin' will be on hand, and there will be live graffiti as well. Tix are $10 or $8 with a can of pet food for the Humane Society (a request that will no doubt endear this event to TOist Josh). You can also buy tapes of this and previous comps so you can work up a routine in the comfort of your own bedroom, and come back to dazzle the world next year.

There’s no need to turn up the volume at Kubo Radio because they are cranking out the Asian fusion eats, treats, rock, soul and kung fu all at once. In fact it’s a bit hard to even keep up.  Our very cute waiter sports a tee that says “Dim Sum Fooey” and in between taking orders and serving a full house, he still manages to find the time to dance with his co-worker in the back of the spacious restaurant.  How cute is that?  Even more so is the smart fusion of not just great food, but excellent service and good music (starting with Cheap Trick’s classic “I Want You to Want Me” and getting better from there…though a slight bit too loud) – there’s even kung fu movies playing on some of the monitors on the wall – making this a fun an alive spot on the Queen East strip in Leslieville.