Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. Is there anything as satisfying as waking up to that little dancing alarm clock every morning on Breakfast Television?......

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......

Toro Magazine, free to Globe and Mail subscribers, released its Men of the Year issue yesterday. Featured honourees include Steve Nash, Brian Mulroney, Paul Haggis, The Trailer Park Boys, Kiefer Sutherland, William Shatner and sweet, hot luscious Ryan Gosling. Torontoist favourites like Final Fantasy and Lukas Rossi were runners up in the music category, but how do you compete against Neil Young? Evangeline Lilly was named Woman of the Year, because she runs around the......

-There's nothing to cheer up a dreary Hump Day like a sickeningly cute story about a hamster and a snake who are BFF in Tokyo, where animal life evidently unfolds according to the tenets of a Disney movie. Just look at them, though! We can't get enough of this picture. They're all "you bitches know nothing of our love. NOTHING!" -In less heartwarming news, we may have learned nothing from SARS and the bird flu......

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......

At the last Resfest, some "slamming" music video's by artists such as Dizzee, Interpol and RJD2 kept things appropriately "popping" at the Royal. This time around, the global digital film festival kicks out more of what you came for, with new GONDRY directed BECK VIDEOS, Can-favourites PIZZA SHOP, and shorts by JARED HESS of that much-loved NAPOLEAN DYNOMITE film. And after Res, watch the feature premier of Autodestruct: One Man's Obsession with William Shatner. Can......

It happened again, folks. Leonard Cohen came down from the mountain and made a new album of synthesized easy listening. But while his last album merely sucked, Dear Heather is actually quite decent, with a few songs falling squarely into the beautiful camp, like the title track. With Lenny's latest coming fresh on the heels of another McGill grad's latest CD effort, it's hard not to compare these men of similar age and girth. Yes,......