He writes about going to town in Paris, Barcelona, and Tulsa. The American-born, Canadian-raised operatic-pop-piano-rock singer says he loves Iceland, Greece, and Costa Rica. But the one place that he can't stand? Deny the claim all you want, Torontonians, but it's us. Although he grew up in our French sister city, Wainwright blacklisted our city as his least-favourite in Sunday's Q&A in the Guardian. Hurt? Shamed? We kid you not. When asked where he'd never......

These days, everyone and their grandmother has a celebrity gossip blog. Perez Hilton became a millionaire by outing Lance Bass and defacing paparazzi photos, while TMZ.com (named for the Thirty Mile Zone surrounding Hollywood) came out of nowhere in 2005 and almost instantaneously became the top site to see celebrities behaving badly. Sassafraz may be the closest we have to The Ivy, yet it's not stocked with a phalanx of paps, and celebrities can usually......

Unless you live under a rock, you know that the North by Northeast Music & Film Festival is currently underway...and if you've stayed out past two nights until almost 5 a.m. like some Torontoist staffers, you really know it's here. You'll be hard pressed to find very many other music events going on this week, since almost every venue being occupied by the festival, so we suggest you just go with it and take......

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending a......

Rufus Wainwright, the man, the messiah, the DVD. After his well-documented rehab visit, and last year's expansive Want CDs, the Rufus Wainwright people put forth a collection of videos, home movies and interviews called All I Want. As the title implies, this works as a detailed companion to the Wants, catering much to Rufus's latter albums. As underrated as those albums might be, their treatment is a little heavy handed here. A Portrait of Rufus......

Was there ever a more perfect Canada Reads match than Rufus Wainwright and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers? No. Sadly, a breaking bulletin from CBC headquarters informs us that Rufus has bailed, due to a 'scheduling conflict,' leaving jazzy Molly Johnson to defend the title. Can she do it? According to the release: "It's a good match, given that I almost named my band, Infidels, Beautiful Losers!" We're rooting for you Molly. Of course, Rufus had......