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. Contrary to rumours, this is not a frequent sight in Elora Oh, the things we do for our art. It is......

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 Boondock Saints is a perfect example of the post-Tarantino school of filmmaking. It's got killing, cussing, and style to spare.......

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. The report states that the $100 million project wasn’t feasible for a number of reasons, mainly that the new building would reach over the church, which is a historic building. There were also some issues with overhang above the sidewalk. The Post article implies that the City believes that any sort of new-fangled......

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......

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. Mediocre Action Movie + Toronto + Sam Jackson = HELL YEAH! Let’s get this out of the way: The Long Kiss......

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. Pawn shops, weird strip clubs, eavesdropping traumatized accountants—Queen East has it all. Just because Toronto is capable of playing nearly any......

The ever-excellent Spacing is celebrating the launch of their latest issue––an "eco-friendly" one, pictured above––next Monday, December 3rd. The launch will take place at the newly-green Berkeley Church (316 Queen Street East), which has been redesigned to have a green roof and (holy crap!) a 25-person-capacity treehouse that may or may not be usable come Monday. Doors open at 8 p.m. and admission is free, with copies of the magazine on sale at the......

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. CityTV had a short gestation period after the CRTC approved its license in November 1971. Key figures in the station's early ownership included president Edgar Cowan, vice-president Phyllis Switzer, lawyer Jerry Grafstein and managing director/former CBC......

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,......

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? That night––if you're still looking for time to kill and bands to see––Vice, Rimmel London, and CKIN2U are hosting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Berkeley......

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. Thanks to some new federal government funding that has also been matched by the Province (well, to be fair, the "new" federal program is actually a relaunched version of......

Once a year Toronto the Good becomes Toronto the very naughty. FFN (formerly known as Folsom Fair North) is Toronto's annual fetish fair. Now in its fifth year, the Fair features everything from play areas and parties to an art tent. Festivities kick off July 20 with the Welcome to Toronto party, being held at Alibi. The next night is Agitator, FFN’s big deal sports-themed fetish blowout at the Opera House. The FFN web......

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. Woman: I'll drive, I'll drive! I'm a good drunk driver! Guy #2, briefly considering her demand: You mean, like, relative to regular driving? Or relative to drunk driving? Woman, hesitating: No...Yeah! I'm good at both kinds. Guy #1: Yeah, I think I'll just drive.......

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......

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......

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. Tonight: throw the test out the window, folks! It’s House of Anansi’s Poetry Bash, featuring new books by Dennis Lee, Barbara Nickel, Erin Moure, and......

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......

Almost 80,000 high school students applied to Ontario universities this year, and the universities are using the surge as a powerful bargaining chip. If you're a student of the University of Toronto, you'll know that the current strategy for dealing with this increase in enrollment is to pack the students in tight. With their debt climbing into the $100-million range, universities are demanding financial assistance from the government or they will stop accepting so......

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......

The Disappearing City, an exhibition of photography by David Kaufman is on now until May 28th at the Bliss Gallery, 1402 Queen Street East. The Disappearing City” refers to types of buildings that I like to photograph that are rapidly disappearing from the centres of our major cities: factories, store fronts, commercial and institutional buildings built in the late 19th or early to mid-20 century, indicative of the mixture and concentration of functions that......

In the absence of any 'Rock Against Harper' campaigns (which of course would be taking cues from Rock Against Bush), the only role Canadian music has in this election is in regards to that file-swapping scandal. Perhaps Canadian politicians realise the counter-effect partisan media had in the 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......

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.......

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......

The Tall Poppy Interview - Rannie Turingan, Photojunkie...

This weekend, TOist headed eastbound for brunch at Bonjour Brioche, a French-style eatery that’s a favourite with the Queen East crowd.  With its lovely French-inspired décor, great atmosphere and delicious food, it’s well worth the wait to get in – there’s usually a lineup on weekends, but  spring is (hopefully) just around the corner, which means Bonjour’s roomy side patio will open soon.   There are too many items on the menu worth raving about......