Results tagged “run”

Today’s Contest:

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with the Toronto International Film Festival Group to run a contest each day until the end of the festival for tickets to next-day screenings.

Today’s Reviews:

The Toronto International Film Festival have announced 73 films today, which is, er, a lot. Too many for us to even pretend to give them even coverage, so as usual we’re just going to pick and choose from today’s announcements, which are made of films from international filmmakers, and tell you about the ones that interest us personally.

Pope Benedict XVI asserts that Catholicism is the only true church. The document he approved states that other Christian churches are "defective" and not true churches. Pope Benedict also plans to bring back the Spanish Inquisition and witch burnings later this year.

Every weekday, we pick an 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!

series from The Movement Movement. The main movers of The Movement Movement, dancer/choreographer Jenn Goodwin and artist/curator Jessica Rose, are inviting the public to run laps of the museum for public art’s sake. You could be running through Ancient Peru or perhaps Heaven or Hell. Sounds exotic! The upcoming run will be extra special as filmmaker Nick de Pencier will work with Lewis Kaye (soundster) and Dean Baldwin (photographer) to capture the run on film. The art of running through art will create art.

Going to see all three films in Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher Trilogy, one after another in one night, is one of this Torontoist’s most treasured cinema memories, and although we did it at 2005’s Toronto International Film Festival, anyone who missed that chance can now do it at the Brunswick Theatre (296 Brunswick Avenue) tonight and tomorrow night starting 7 p.m. It’s $10 for one film or $15 for the lot, so obviously you should see all three.

It's always risky to see a band when they're not promoting a new album. There's always the possibility of finding a lot of new songs thrown into the mix, which can seriously hamper, if not altogether halt, what might have been a really fun show. So it was no surprise that Saturday night's Cuff The Duke show, a sold out affair infront of a well-liquored audience, was lopsided, filled with new songs from the third Cuff The Duke album, which they will soon go into the studio to record. Don't take that to mean that the songs were in any way bad, because they're not. They manage to walk the fine line between being alt-country but not sounding derivative or repetitive. It was just obvious that it was not what the audience wanted.

In the post-Christmas period, there aren’t usually a lot of films released, and this year it's no different; really we’re all just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the new Cinematheque season, right?

For nigh on a decade now, Torontoist has stood firm in her conviction that a fridge without a head of broccoli is like an island without an airport, which here means, "almost no one feels ambivalent about it." Former republican presidents hate it. Catherine de Medici made it a star. All we can do is tell you how to choose and care for it, and try to keep the controversy swilling.

In response to the collapse of an overpass in Quebec, the provincial and municipal government will look at overpasses in this province. They reassure us that none of this province's overpasses have the same design as the one in Quebec and are regularly checked.

Everyone sufficiently recovered from Word on the Street? Over 200,000 people braved the wind and rain and descended upon Queen’s Park for a celebration of books. I have a book hangover, thus the lateness of this week’s listings.

A quick update to an old story before we get onto all the new releases that are going to make us as depressed as ever – Remember You, Me and Dupree? We hypothesised that movie-execs came up with the title “while explaining what was going to happen during some sick, cocaine fuelled orgy”. Turns out we were right, as long as during the sick, cocaine fuelled orgy was to the tune of Steely Dan’s Cousin Dupree! Steely Dan have written an incredibly amusing letter to Luke Wilson to tell him to sort his little/bigger brother out. It reads like exactly the kind of rambling nonsense old rocker burnouts would write when annoyed/amused about possibly being ripped off, and is almost completely unquotable, so you should just read it all.

This month's installment of the WSFF's world of shorts program is 'Full Time Job,' a series of films about working to live, living to work, or just going along for the ride. Films include TEMPO, JOB STREET, RIDING SHOTGUN WITH JACK MCCONAHA, TOKYO EXPRESS, HONEY, IRIS, AWAKEN, GLENDA MARY’S GLENDA GLOSS and THE CARPENTER AND HIS CLUMSY WIFE. And the program screens twice, at 6:30pm and 8:30pm, at the NFB.

God, fame, escaping prejudice, qualifying for the Francophone Games/Jeux de la Francophonie: All valid reasons for running in this Sunday's Toronto Waterfront Marathon. There's that, and of course the mega-concert of "Canadian classic rock band Lighthouse and the worlds' #1 calypso/soca artist David Rudder." If we knew about this before, we would have quit eating nachos for breakfast a long time ago.

The Orion was launched in 1979, and though Terry went through nine left shoes, he never had to change the right one. Kind of cool that they're bringing out the shoe in time for the annual Terry Fox Run, and since a pair of Converse can easily run you $100 these days, might as well put your sneaker money towards a good cause, if you're in need of a new pair. Then you must go run a marathon.

So last night, through the vexing snow of a channel we don't get, we heard a perky, entertainment-tonight sorta gal say that Owen Wilson thinks an Oscar will bring him true happiness. Now if this koan is meant to illustrate that Wilson is a serious actor, it falls flat. The critical affirmation of your peers won't make you happy, Owen! You need a summer hit. Will the Wedding Crashers be one? Most likely, which is why we'll direct our opening weekend attention to Murderball, a doc that raised the roof at Hot Docs and Sundance, and is now basking in the glow of wide release. It's about quadraplegic rugby players, and it looks fierce!

It's a question that comes up on almost a nightly basis: Where can athletic supporters hear the best whorish pop and classic hip-hop? Well, consider tomorrow night a no-brainer. Several Eye writers, including but not limited to Dave "D-Mo" Morris, will be playing an athletic supporter-centric mix of Run DMC, J.Timberlake, Spoon, Serge G., X-Tina, tatu, Public Enemy, De La Soul and so much more. Starts at 8PM TOMORROW night at a little place we like to call The Underdown (263 Gerrard St. E.).

Love it or hate it, LOLA, the 'free' visual arts mag that went belly up a couple of years back, was a boon for Toronto's visual arts scene. It got people talking, writing and going to see art. And unlike other publications (ahem, Canadian Art) didn't have to deal with institutional history, a national/international mandate, or pander to senior artists/board members/advertisers/etc. LOLA could stay local, stay fresh and stay true to its readership of local artists and art lovers.

, a compilation of the best Brit rap of the movement. This Saturday at B-Side (129 Peter St.), emcee's D Double E, Jammer and Ears celebrate the lauded disc in what is purported to be Toronto's first true grime set. For more info on the genre, read the Zoilus version.

At last October's Run For Cure, Torontoist couldn't help but notice more than 100 per cent of women had a coloured stripe across their bums. Even women not participating in Breast Cancer fundraising run were wearing the black pant avec stripe-across-the-cheeks garment. Upon further inspection, Torontoist found that some of these female runners did not appreciate us inspecting their bums. Upon even further inspection, the athletic wear-slash-uniform turned out to be from the heavily popular lululemon athletica.