Fauxreel's pairing with Vespa to produce street art ads has always been contentious; as Carl Wilson pointed out in last month's Toronto Life, the intersection of street art and money-making is messy as hell. While one Toronto tagger took matters into their own hands to protest the corporate backing, and one Toronto book store threw their ad on top of Vespa's, others have participated in the discussion by literally changing the subject: a Montreal......

For the last few weeks of the summer, Torontoist has been investigating ideas that we could benefit from pillaging from others. Two weeks ago, we looked at Madrid’s integration of public libraries and public transit, as well as their insistence on keeping a more humane schedule for workers. Last week, we examined Amsterdam's method of accommodating—and legitimizing—different modes of transportation within their small city grid. This week, in our final installment, we look at Vilinius’s......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By Fauxreel/Vespa, Artist Unknown/SWPE BooksNEAR QUEEN AND BEVERLEYPHOTO BY GALA......

.shadowRollover { width:640px; height:872px; float:left; background-image:url(http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_david/20080827lostfound2.jpg); display:block; } .shadowRollover:hover { display:block; background-image:url(http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_david/20080827lostfound.jpg); } Discovered on Pape Avenue south of Dundas Street East by Torontoist Flickr Pooler squeakyrat (also responsible for this great discovery), there are at least a few other signs like these in the east end of the city. Corny? Yes. Pretty adorable? That too. Rollover the image to switch between the "Lost" and "Found" posters. Photos by squeakyrat from the Torontoist Flickr......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artists UnknownAT QUEEN AND SPADINAPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownAT QUEEN AND LANDSDOWNEPHOTO BY JOHN SLATCHER......

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve. Hug Tree BY IZAK_NEUTRON......

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see. all your life you have waited for this moment to be free... Streets are for People—in conjunction with Newmindspace and nine other groups of urban merrymakers—is holding a number of events this Thursday night: a parade that starts from Central Tech, a Critical Mass ride that kicks off at the usual location of the southeast corner of Bloor and Spadina, and a "silent street rave" that......

Spacing reports on the fate of the Hug Me tree at Queen Street West and Peter Street after it was found knocked down yesterday. After narrowly avoiding being hacked up by the City's Forestry department, the tree is back—intact—in the hands of Elicser, the artist who had been painting it for the past few years, thanks in part to a woman whose husband proposed to her in front of the tree six years ago.......

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve. Gas Mask Deer BY J IS FOR JETSETTER......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By GRAMS IN SNEAKY DEES PHOTO BY POST......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artists UnknownON IGOR KENK'S BICYCLE CLINICPHOTOS BY ZUKEEPER......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By RCADENEAR KING AND SHAW PHOTO BY SIMON......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By KATSUNEAR RICHMOND AND McDOUGALLPHOTO BY POST......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownIN AN ALLEY BEHIND BLOOR, NEAR ALBANYPHOTO BY BRUISED EGO......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown and BOOKSAT GLEN BAILLIEPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Photo by Dimsumdarren from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. A long-running question on Torontoist asks when graffiti can be tolerated. The sticking point isn't whether graffiti artists occasionally produce good art. Toronto's best-known piece of graffiti—a rainbow painted on a tunnel by the Don Valley Parkway—inspired Peter Doig's painting, "Country Rock," which in turn became the cover piece for an acclaimed exhibition in London. Worldwide, consider these murals, three-dimensional chalk drawings, and dirty window art.......

The wheatpaste of Fathima Fahmy was the first to go up just over a month ago. Two stories tall, it stands on the side of a newly-vacant apartment building slated for demolition in the heart of Regent Park. Since then, ten other larger-than-life portraits of other residents like her—those living in the fleet of low-rise buildings that are to be torn down and built on top of as part of Toronto Community Housing's $1 billion......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By TeethAT DUNDAS AND MARKHAMPHOTO BY TEETH......

One of the greatest and most frustrating things about street art is that its lifespan is inherently finite. Especially in high-traffic areas, no piece is permanent, static, or safe. Take the wall on Queen Street West just out from below the railway and just west of Gladstone. Kevin Steele, who has spent much time documenting Queen Street West (his beautiful stitched-together photos of the block of buildings that burned down earlier this year remain the......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownIN AN ALLEY OFF OXFORD, NEAR SPADINAPHOTO BY JOULGER......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownNEAR DUNDAS AND KENSINGTONPHOTO BY JOULGER......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownAT AVENUE AND FOXBARPHOTO BY GALA......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownNEAR CROFT AND ULSTERPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

We should have known! The culprits responsible for the Pac-Man recreation on a streetcar shelter outside Kensington Market have stepped forward, and they're neither advertisers nor immoralists: they're Teeth (responsible for this charming bear-woman) and our very own Posterchild (who is something of a fan of video games). The two collaborated to put up three nearly identical installations along Spadina: one at Spadina and Harbord (pictured above, at top); one at Spadina and Queen......

On Friday, reader Russ Morgan spotted Pac-Man on Spadina. Someone had converted one of the panels of the streetcar shelters between Baldwin and Nassau to depict a stand-off straight out of the classic video game: to the south, a big pixelated Pac-Man; to the north, Pokey, a big pixelated orange ghost; and, between them, a big pixelated cherry power-up. The yellow dots that always line the streetcar shelters, untouched by the artist, magically became......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownIN AN ALLEYWAY OFF KENSINGTONPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown.NEAR BLOOR AND OSSINGTONPHOTO BY REK.......

There are two camps when it comes to the postering of utility poles: those who love it (and think it's a quirk of a vibrant community) and those who hate it (and attempt to legislate against it). Yet, for the latter crowd, it's still not difficult to find charm in this tiny painting tucked away in a downtown alley known as Alexander Place. It was posted mere steps from this anonymous notice—both examples of......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By SpecterIN AN ALLEY BEHIND THE HORSESHOE TAVERNPHOTO BY SPECTER.......