The Baldwin Steps, the set of stairs at Davenport and Spadina Roads that leads up to Casa Loma, are so recognizable that they've warranted their own Wikipedia article and feature as a battle backdrop in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Depending on the time of day and season, the Baldwin Steps––also called the Casa Loma Steps, or The Death Climb At The End of Spadina––can be romantic, creepy, trying, or picturesque. Now a group of......

Recently, Torontoist went canoeing in Algonquin Park (we got 34 mosquito bites). However, arguably the most amusing thing to happen during our entire trip was passing a billboard on our way into the park advertising a "Dock in a Box." We instantly became distracted by a lengthy fantasy that the company knew exactly what it was doing and included a YouTube video on its website about how it created the Dock in a Box......

Torontoist apologizes for erroneously predicting The End of The Internet (alas, we are still here) back in April, but organizer Louis Calabro insists that The End is truly nigh tonight. We think he might really mean it this time. If headliner Christian Bök can’t do it, no poet can. Christian is the author of two outstanding poetry collections from Coach House Books: the 'pataphysical encyclopedia, Crystallography, and the best-selling Griffin award-winning Eunoia, which employs only......

If Torontoist wasn’t looking after the kids tonight, we’d be checking out The End of the Internet. The End is scheduled tonight at The Press Club (850 Dundas Street West) for precisely 9 p.m. The upstart, performance-based reading series, which has been ending the Internet for almost a year now, is hosted by man-about-town Louis Calabro. Tonight, Brian Joseph Davis performs his “first ever laptop gig” with dulcet sounds he has produced over the last......

CS Richardson is a prize-winning book designer who has worked in publishing for over two decades. His work has been showcased at both the Leipzig and Frankfurt Book Fairs. Richardson's awards include being the recipient of numerous Alcuin Awards, the highest honour for book design in Canada. You've no doubt seen his work on the shelves on your favourite neighbourhood bookstore: his award-winning designs include Wayne Johnston's The Navigator of New York and Wayson Choy's......

Our title this week of course refers to Catch and Release, a film which has been so endlessly trailered on TV (and we don’t even watch that much) that Torontoist feels like we could recite the whole bloody film right now. “The man I was going to marry is dead! I’m sitting wearing my wedding dress and moping – it’s a girl thing! Kevin Smith is fat and talentless, but friends with Ben Affleck......

Hometown favourite Sloan play the Kool Haus tonight in support of their newest album, Never Hear The End Of It. The show's being billed as their 10th Anniversary at the venue. Hopping on the Web 2.0 train, the band has posted clips of their rehearsals for the tour: Alternatively, you can also see the band as they really were in 1996. Update (from Sloan's website): "Tonight's show at Kool Haus in Toronto has been rescheduled......

Sloan is back. And not just because their new album is released today. Spanning 30 tracks and 76 minutes, Never Hear The End Of It almost makes Torontoist want to use clichéd terms like “return to form.”......

It’s an interesting and potentially important time for English language Canadian filmmakers, with several Canadian films managing to reach cult hit status, such as It’s All Gone Pete Tong and The Life And Hard Time of Guy Terrifico. With only five percent of movies seen by Canadians made by Canadians (according to the program guide) and the writer of It’s All Gone Pete Tong Michael Dowse expressing a wish for Canadian content quotas for cinemas......

When the federal government nixed tobacco sponsorship in 2003, it was almost curtains for Harbourfront Centre’s cancer-stick-addicted World Stage international theatre festival. But then new artistic director Tina Rasmussen came on board and figured out a way to cut costs: Turn World Stage into a solo performance extravaganza. World Stage: Flying Solo opened last night with Rosebud, a play about Orson Welles, and A Mobile Thriller, a play that takes place in an actual car......

Chalk it up to a childhood doused with station wagons and scrunchies, but we'd go see The End of Suburbia for the title alone. Fortunately, the film looks to be interesting beyond the title as well, as it "explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply." Tonight there will be a screening* of the film presented in......