The amount of events this week are bursting at the seams. Keep Toronto Reading is kicking it into full gear this month with various readings across library branches, Lit Lunches, and various One Book events. There are just too many to list here. Visit the KTR calendar to see all event details and plan out your literary excursions. And if you have any kids, you can join Gisèle from TVOKids for various library tours, as......

While we're on the subject of TTC maps (as we often are), we might as well include the most wildly ambitious one of all. Reader Ryan Felix sent us his subway map, which he describes as a "fantasy map of the TTC" in 2050. Felix says it was "created in hope to influence people to become pro-transit, and to give a vision that Toronto can have a world-class transit system." The lines depicted on......

Who knew there was a connection between the TTC and the Titanic, and not just that both are often associated with the words "transportation" and "disaster" (ba-dum-bum)? An exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre features four Toronto streetcar tickets salvaged from the world's most famous shipwreck by a 1987 expedition. The tickets are believed to have been the property of Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, a wealthy Toronto socialite who was sailing home from England when......

You remember the Moose in the City, don't you? For six glorious months in 2000, more than three hundred fibreglass moose stood watch over Toronto, succesfully saving us from the shame of having hundreds of flying pigs instead. We greatly preferred the moose to any of the subsequent visitors to our fair city including aphids, SARS, and Chilean soccer players. Most of the moose had disappeared by the end of 2000, but a few......

Remember how lame grade nine science class was? Sure, we got to use Bunsen burners and there was a unit about sex, but the rest of the year consisted of really boring stuff like balancing equations and memorizing the periodic table. Too bad OSC.TV wasn’t around when we were 14. Memorizing the periodic table would have been a dream (speaking of dreamy, like, OMG, how totally cute is the scientist singer?)—after watching The Periodic Table......

It's not Toronto news, but everyone's talking about it: Anna Nicole Smith is dead. We were fascinated with her train wreck of a life while she was in it, and doubly so now that she's gone. Was it drugs, or cholesterol? Did she have a will? Who gets the money? When will my subscription to People Magazine start if I sign up today? Yesterday's budget committee meeting announced that 51% of Toronto's capital budget for......

You may have already heard about the stellar line-up of bands going on for this year's Wintercity, but there's much more to this festival than an eclectic mix of tunes. It's a good thing winter finally arrived because this event may not have taken place. Now that it's here (and with a vengeance), the City is inviting everyone to come down and have a little bit of fun on their dime. Theatrics, ice sculptures......

When I was thirteen, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Halifax. In the maritimes nine years ago, the Atlantic Superstores were way bigger than anything in Toronto, and they sold clothes! Needless to say, I was impressed - that is, until I tried on several pairs of ill-fitting pants and realized that Superstore clothes sucked. But my, how things have changed! Joseph Mimran, "the man synonymous with Canadian fashion," has launched a......

City election officials are having a hard time figuring out whether lots of people on the voting list are actually eligible to vote. This may have a direct affect on municipal campaign financing. Toronto Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy can't spell Siemens but does uncover that TTC comissioners actually voted for an open bidding process for buying new subway cars. Somewhere along the line this was ignored in favour of the deal with Bombardier. The city......

On Monday, Torontoist finally took in Body Worlds 2 at the Science Centre, and we're still having nightmares about plastinated zombies. Body Worlds 2 lies somewhere in the area where the realms of science and art overlap. Much of the exhibit has the feel of a creatively designed anatomy lesson - a number of table cases simply contain various body parts (including the lungs of a smoker and those of a non-smoker lying side by......

Readers can probably tell by now that TOist firmly believes that quality playtime makes for one hell of a date, and it is this immature theory of romance that brings us to the third spot on our list - the Science Centre. What makes the Science Centre a great spot for a date is the same thing that makes it a great spot for anything - it is tons of fun. For folks who grew......

Aprilage Development Inc, a branch of William Shatner’s Toronto based company C.O.R.E., has designed a software program that shows you two images of what you will look like in 20 years; one as a smoker, the other as a non-smoker. They call the software The Amazing Aging Machine. Aprilage recently visited a middle school in Buffalo to participate in the school’s anti-tobacco program and it seems like they made an impression. Kids generally don’t care......

The last time Torontoist set foot in the Ontario Science Centre, it was 3 a.m. and thousands of ravers were trashing the place. Glowstick juice smeared over slanted furniture in the Krazy Kitchen and candy kids gapped out to liquid nitrogen demonstrations in wide-pupiled awe. We may have hung up our phat pants, but the Science Centre remains an authority on waves of destruction. This Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m., David Sugarman will explain......