There used to be a sign above a video arcade that proclaimed "Yonge Street is Fun Street." Back in the 1960s and 1970s, much of that fun was to be had at the many bars and clubs that lined the street south of Gerrard––Le Coq D'Or, Steele's Tavern, Friar's Tavern, Zanzibar Tavern and so on. Depending on the venue, you could listen to music, dance the night away or catch a striptease. Today's advertiser......

Yes there are. There are also times when Torontoist probably shouldn't be giving quotes to student newspapers. Last Monday night was one of those. In candid interview with Ryerson's the Ryersonian, T to the O to the Ist came up with a few un-imaginative, un-inspired things to say about our site and its place in the world. Here's some of the wreckage: "I don't really know much about the web" (Might as well include a......

If the New York Times were John Travolta, they would be in the Look Who's Talking stage of their careers. But, seriously. Let's not go too far with the Ad Hominem Tu Quoque jokes (even though those are the best jokes ever). Instead, let's look at yesterday's "Was Canada Too Good To Be True?" article in THE newspaper of record. With the help of former Ryerson Journalism Ethics Chair Robert Fulford and Super historian......

At least that's one plausible showdown if TO's media choose to pick up the gauntlet thrown down by the CTV CanIdol machine. Tired of all the talking head hot air, CTV is asking those press persons who think it's easy to croon badly before millions of Canadians (and then watch your album tank, and then appear as an extra in a low budget Canflick starring a talking beaver) vie for the title 'Media Idol' in......

Have you ever noticed that no journalist can get through a single article about Don McKellar without using the word nebbish at least once? Robert Fulford had a great column a few weeks ago on descriptive adjectives and the impoverished nouns they flank, and we were duly inspired to never use the pairs 'checkered career' or 'bitter end' or 'stunning development' again. And now we'll add nebbish to any descriptions of Mr. McKellar or the......