A little more of the renovation of Museum subway station has been revealed, showing oddly contrasting purple columns and white moulded volutes. (See also Rannie Turingan's video taken from a train pulling into Museum station.) Still under wraps until the official unveiling in April are the individual column designs themselves. The subway revitalization project, which includes Museum, Osgoode, and St Patrick stations, has not been without its critics. Joe Clark calls the project a......

On Sunday night, Team Bloggers kicked some cab driver and celebrity impersonator ass on CBC's Test the Nation: Trivia. The evening ended with the cleanest sweep in quiz show history: bloggers had the best team score with an average of 50; team captain Samantha Bee had the highest score of all the Canadian celebs; teammate Rick Spence had the top in-studio score of 57. Of course, we never doubted that the bloggers would emerge......

The Too-Explicit Injustice of Kind Population! is: a) a popular Engrish t-shirt slogan in Tokyo b) a Sufjan Stevens hidden track c) the title of this month's photo blog show at the Whippersnapper Gallery If you guessed "c," many hand claps and cheers! You've just won yourself admission* to the opening reception of this must-see exhibition featuring Toronto's top photo bloggers: Sam Javanrouh, Chris Altorf and Jessica Hayes, Adam Hool, and Rannie Turingan. The......

The Weblog Awards (affectionately referred to as the "Bloggies") are -- to borrow a quotation from Ron Burgundy -- kind of a big deal. In the blog world, they are our Oscars, except that instead of a brilliant gold statuette, eternal fame, and hot dates for the rest of your life, the prize is, well...uh...online bragging rights. But bragging rights are bragging rights, dammit, and we were delighted when we found out last night......

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! This seemed an appropriate image for December 25th. Happy holidays from the Torontoist staff. It comes courtesty of Photojunkie (Rannie Turingan), a former member of our Torontoist family. He's recently gotten in the habit of picking up cool kitsch......

The Art Gallery of Ontario's latest exhibition features the work of two photographers: Alfred Eisenstaedt and Ansel Adams. In the early 20th century, both photographers were pushing the limits of their craft -- though in opposite directions. Eisenstaedt took to the streets and snapped people in cities, while Adams sought out wild landscapes and untouched mountain passes. The AGO's special exhibition fills three large rooms with B&W images, most of them from the 1930's......

Toronto's annual Zombie Walk is today, and in case you're wondering, the event is rain or shine: "Rain has not been known to kill zombies, and their motor functions are usually good enough to hold an umbrella. The Undead will Spread come rain or shine." Torontoist wants to remind you of the hilarity last year when the horde of brains-hungry zombies crashed an anti-violence rally at Dundas Square and the DJ dropped "Thriller". Toronto......

Our fascination with photographing Bikes continue, especially since it's Bike Week in Toronto. You have to wonder if the TTC Strike and the start of Bike Week, was truly a coincidence.......

Taken last night at the Forgotten: The Art of Decay exhibit by the DK Photo group at the Steamwhistle Brewer. The DK photo group consists of Russell Brohier, Sean Galbraith, Steve Jacobs, Lopix, Mathew Merrett, Jay Morrison. If you like urban exploration, you'll dig this exhibit now showing at the Steamwhistle until June 4th.......

Even with the gentrification of the Gladstone and the Drake, the Queen West strip still has it's quirky nature intact. We found these bottle people dancing around at the corner of Queen and Beaconsfield practically at the hotel's doorstep.......

Further along Queen Street West yesterday, we saw this fellow installing this photo decal onto the bus shelter at Shaw. It's a part of the Contact photography festival happening in Toronto throughout the month of May.......

Walking along Queen Street yesterday afternoon, we noticed an interesting collaborative art piece forming in one of the door ways just east of the Drake. Unfortunately, we had disposed of our gum a mere minutes before this discovery.......

The Contact Photo festival is always a little bit overwhelming and we're always glad that the events span the entire month of May. That being said after a couple of hours perusing the 128-page guide there are a few shows we're looking forward to. 1) Stephen Waddell and Stephen Gill at the St. Andrew Subway Station The two Stephens explore everyday moments of urban life. Waddell, a Canadian transplanted to Germany, looks at the phenomenon......

Back in March, we told you about the launch of MTV Canada. Yesterday we were noticing how they've spent their budget on adding fancy lights to give the Masonic Temple, where they film MTV Canada, more prominence. Strangely, it reminds us of the Chum City building, home of Much Music, without all the foot traffic and big windows to see in the studio.......

Could you imagine what would happen if we suddenly had to leave our urban and surburban sprawl. What you would it look like many years later if we returned? This is one of the many thoughts explored at the Centre Cannot Hold show at the Toronto Free Gallery which opened last night.......

Yesterday, while dropping off some digital files to print, we noticed that Pikto and the Distillery District were sponsoring new monthly photo contests. It's the perfect contest for any Tdot PHOTOist. All you need to do is send in your favourite shots from the Historic Distillery District. How hard can it be, the place is so damn photogenic, you can't go wrong.......

Walking through the Toronto Sculpture Garden, we discovered Kiosk 2005. It's an installation by Derek Sullivan which displayed various posters over a 6 month period and also encourages community postering. We were intrigued. Unfortunately, the installation is ending it's run on April 15th. It's a great initiative, too bad it had a winter slot in the sculpture garden, it definitely cut down on foot traffic and participation.......

Took a stroll past City Hall this evening and snapped this shot of the skaters on the rink at Nathan Phillip Square. It wasn't until after we prepped the picture when we noticed that some kid had fallen on the ice. Don't laugh, he could become a future Canadian winter Olympic hopeful.......

A few reasons why you should check out In Transit, opening tonight at the Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen St. E.) 1) More TTC love Despite jacking up the fares and crumbling infrastructure, the TTC needs more love than ever. Boy Reporter has lived in a city where the transit workers went on strike for three months and the buses stop running after 2:00AM so he appreciates the fact that the TTC hasn't done......

A handful of terrific TO photobloggers will be at the Yorkdale Apple Store tonight at 7pm to show their work and chat. It'll be a good time, and you'll finally get to check out Apple's 'genius bar,' so get yourselves there. Presenters include Gayla Trail, Matt Blackett, Adam Krawesky and TOist's own, Rannie Turingan.......

Looks like we are gonna get some storms this afternoon. There is a severe thunderstorm watch in effect. Make sure you ride the Rocket on your way home today. It's the Better Drier Way. Of course, there is also the option of running around in the storm and getting completely soaked just for the hell of it. If you do, make sure to send us your photos. Gotta love an impromptu wet t-shirt contest......

Eli Singer, of Singer.TO, signs on to a lifetime of hyperlinks and inspired comments from Billonlogan today, as we launch his weekly feature, Tech Tune-Up. Today, Flickry photographers. Tomorrow, the world: Toronto is home to world-class photobloggers. Earlier this year, Sam Javanrouh's Daily Dose of Imagery won a Bloggie for best international photoblog. PhotoJunkie by Rannie Turingan took the best in Canada prize. Sam and Rannie do an amazing job of capturing moments in our......

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

Local Junkie of the Photos Rannie Turingan is having a very good week. Yesterday the photoblogger par excellence, who spends his free time coralling the typepad troops as unofficial caretaker of the GTA Bloggers, won Best Canadian blog on the Bloggies. (Shoutouts also to Sam Javanrouh's Daily Dose of Imagery, which won the awkwardly named 'Best Photography of a Weblog Award') And tomorrow a show featuring work by both Rannie and Sam, and a handful......

Spacing Mag launches its third issue tonight, with a par-tay at the El Mocambo. Audio by Reid Jamieson and Audible. Work and Play in Public Space is the name of the issue, and it'll be available round town following the launch. Torontoist is particularly interested in the mag's new public space etiquette column, 'Ask the Manners Duck.' If only we didn't have to 'duck' every time an absentminded, umbrella-wielding spacehog shared the sidewalk. The issue......