Kincardine-born, Mississauga-bred, Toronto-based, and Berlin-bound, Joel Gibb is the musical and managerial head of The Hidden Cameras, the fantastic and always well-populated music collective whose members have included Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Reg Vermue (Gentlemen Reg), Laura Barrett, Maggie MacDonald (Republic of Safety), Dave Meslin (founder of the Toronto Public Space Committee), Bob Wiseman, Steve Kado (founder of Blocks Recording Club, member of Barcelona Pavilion and Ninja High School), Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say......

It's Labour Day, so a special shout-out to all the sweatshop workers who won't be reading this because they're working today and can't afford a computer on 21 cents an hour anyway. Thanks for all the cheap clothes, guys. The Star reports that the suspect in whose car police found three bombs on Friday was described by his landlord as "unstable." Ya think? Time to rethink those cross-border shopping plans—increased security checks at border......

Words, words, words! Tongues get tied and language pulls a muscle in Terminating, a work by Tony Kushner (Angels in America), mounted in Toronto for the first time by Jordan Pettle. Inspired by Shakespeare's "Sonnet 75," this 30-minute play is classic Kushner in its robust tirades against everything from human ambivalence and existential paradoxes to window curtains and the smell of anal sex. At the centre of the production is Michael Healey's tour de force......

I love the smell of police raid in the morning. Toronto Vice arrested 60 people in the Jane and Finch area this morning in a raid called Project Kryptic. They seized "30 kilos of cocaine, hash oil and marijuana with an estimated street value of $1 million" from the Driftwood Crips. That's actually pretty badass. Hey, buddy...we're not mad that you stole the Hershey bars, we're just concerned that they may be contaminated with......

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights: Kensington Market turns out the lights on Nuit Blanche (118 - 95): Dizzy from the smell of fish, Nuit Blanche stumbles in this epic battle of nocturnal versus somnambulant. Al Waxman named MVP of Kensington for numerous slam dunks. IllegalSigns.ca revokes Dufferin Grove's permit (109......

If were anywhere near Jarvis and Dundas today, you were probably wondering if you've ever smelled anything so horrible, but one thing was certain: it was the smell of death. Late this morning, the Toronto Police Service were summoned to 276 George Street, just east of Jarvis, to investigate an intense smell of rot coming from an abandoned rooming house. What they discovered were more than a hundred dead sheep. Trying to make sense......

Like driving? Like skunks? Dislike compensation? Dream job alert! Reuters is reporting that the Toronto Wildlife Center is looking for a driver willing to drive a skunk back to its home in California -- a 4,000 kilometer trip. The skunk was accidentally locked away in a transport truck after it fell asleep in some piping, and made the original seven-day trek from California to Mississauga without food or water. And if you lived in......

This week Torontoist checked out the popular and long-time Queen Street favourite, the Vienna Home Bakery.  Its 50s décor, red and white checkered floors and laid-back atmosphere – not to mention the smell of baked goodies including ginger muffins, brownies, scones, and homemade pies – make it a must try.  Plus it’s even good for celeb spotting.  TOist was just a seat away from hunky Canadian actor Peter Stebbings, famous for his role on the......