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The Bike Polo Halloween Smackdown took place on the tennis courts at Trinity Bellwoods Park last weekend, with teams from across the country competing for honours, accompanied by a hard rock soundtrack and curious passersby.

The approach to Trinity-Bellwoods on Tuesday night evoked a brain reel of pop-culture iconography: Morpheus triumphantly addressing a sweaty, gyrating crowd of robocracy-epoch survivalists; Eric Cartman's hippie drill on a crusade against jam-fests everywhere. Close enough to the Garrison Creek ravine near the park's center, the imagery assumes a vaguely post-apocalyptic quality; considering the circle's recent history, the dancing, percussive multitude brought together by Drummers In Exile must get the whole flight-of-humanity thing on some level.

Every Saturday morning, Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today.

Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we'll feature some of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome.

Photo by aardvark from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Taking advantage of Friday's snowfall, Newmindspace called for a snowball fight in Trinity Bellwoods on Saturday afternoon. Lots of fun was had by all!

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."

With the final film line-up announced and special guests already booking flights to Toronto (legendary horror dude Uwe Boll! Direct from Germany!), the acclaimed Toronto After Dark Film Festival is set to play out its second year. Starting tomorrow night through to the 25th, the Bloor Cinema will play host to over 50 new independent and international horror/sci-fi/fantasy/action/animation and generally offbeat works from across North America, Europe and Asia.

Reminder: this weekend (September 14–16) is the Queen West Art Crawl, or QWAC ("quack"), where the streets and parks of trendy West Queen West become galleries.

In this occasional feature, two Torontoist staffers face off to debate an issue that is important to our city. We invite our readers to join in the debate in the comments section after the post.

A lot happens in and around Toronto, but we can only write about so much in a week. Here's the best of the rest, in a new weekly feature we're calling Superfluist. Superfluist will appear every Friday night.

Reader Amanda Happé came across this sight yesterday morning: city employees carving up and taking away Trinity-Bellwoods' much-loved painted blue and white tree trunk (also known as the Universal Love Machine).

A report released yesterday by the Conference Board of Canada raised an alarm that Canada is in the doldrums when it comes to innovation. But after discovering this poster (at right) on the bulletin board at the Valu Pet Store at College and Augusta, the suggestion our society is failing to innovate seems mistaken.

Toronto is a squirrelly place. Even the mascot for our 150th anniversary was Seskwee the Sesquicentennial Squirrel. The frolicsome animal is a rodent of the family Sciuridae. There are more than 250 types of squirrel, but in Toronto two kinds dominate: the American Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), and the Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). But what about our famous Black and White Squirrels, you ask?

Price Chopper produce got you down? Apples and oranges from outside the Portuguese pescaria not quite cutting it? Perhaps a visit to one of Toronto’s newest farmer’s markets is in order!

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Submission deadlines are quickly approaching for some of this year’s most exciting weekends of outdoor artfulness and it’s time to get those applications together.

It doesn’t take long before the bubblegum beauty of Julian Calleros’s recent mixed-media portrait series, called The half of one self’s, gives way to a web of personal meaning. Adorned with patchwork, embroidery, bright pinks and reds, the portraits put some of the artist’s closest relationships on centre stage.

For the last two years, Newmindspace have been planning their first massive park event. For those two years, they have resisted the call of grass, believing that parks are prisons for fun: designated "fun zones", the only public places where people are really allowed to play.

In our last report on Drum Circle, Toronto's weekly celebration of drum and dance, one commenter lamented, "Its going to be a looooong [sic] winter without it...:(" Fear not, faithful reader, for the beat goes on.

If you think the holiday season's message of giving and charity and love is temporary, think again. Local bands have come together to produce the Friends of Bellwoods Compilation, which will raise funds for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Ex-Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger, The Paramedics (starring Bry Webb of the Constantines), Ohbijou and The D'Urbervilles will be playing the CD release party this Friday at Tranzac, where you can also pick up a copy of the CD.

Torontonians are, to say the least, an opinionated bunch. So instead of a simple "Best Of" list to cap 2006 off, the Torontoist staffers have racked their brains about everything (books, songs, restaurants, people, places, stores, newspapers, politicians, musicians, and a lot more) to bring you their choices for the very best and the very worst of our city this past year. It's Torontoist Love/Hate 2006, and you can find a new one every day at noon from December 26th until January 1st.

We're experimenting with a new daily photo posting. Each weekday morning, we'll pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

Tomorrow night at 7:01 pm is the start of a 12-hour, all-night extravaganza called Nuit Blanche. Everyone we talked to seems to know that it's happening (thanks to cover stories in ), but when pressed, few of those asked were clear on exactly what Nuit Blanche was, nor exactly what they're supposed to do. We thought Torontoist should step in and clear things up.

Walk, bike, or take transit, just leave your car out of it. Tomorrow is Car Free Day. The City has sort of turned around on not doing anything last year and this year a chunk of Yonge Street (Dundas to Shuter, around Dundas Sq.) will be car free for a couple of hours.

Art! Alleyways! Don’t it sound fantasmo? This year’s Alley Jaunt is taking place this weekend (Saturday AND Sunday) in the alleyways of the area surrounding Trinity Bellwoods Park (11am til 6pm). The Jaunt will feature art installations, performances, and other wonderfully marvellous artiness inside of garages, outside of garages, and around garages in alleyways. Paul McClure, Jennifer Bulthuis, and Lise Beaudry are the creators of Alley Jaunt and they’ve got extra curators (Claire Eckert, Anne Cibola, and Saara Liinamaa) for Give! and Surprise projects for the event. An arty garage sale and silent auction will take place over the weekend as well. Consult the Alley Jaunt map for specific details on the path to take and the whereabouts of the garage installations. Volunteering for this event is an option; contact info@alleyjaunt.com for further details. Why sit at home watching cheese get sweaty? Go to Alley Jaunt! We’ll see you there!

Who needs an excuse to visit a pretty new bookstore? Type, the new bookstore near Trinity Bellwoods which we've mentioned before on this blog is having a very appropriate art show. Nano - Nano is the graduation show from OCAD’s “Nano-publishing: Independent Publications” program taught by Torontoist pal Shannon Gerard.

We here at Torontoist support live independent music wherever and whenever it's being played (well almost). We feel incredibly blessed to live in a city with so many cheap and bookable live venues and great bands to fill those said venues. So when we heard that the poor kids in Brantford might be losing the Ford Plant, one of that town's better spaces, we were a bit dismayed.

Gentrification finally, finally wrought a bookstore. With the addition of Type, the stretch of Queen West across from Trinity Bellwoods Park officially moves into the lead as the quaintest little block in the West. No longer just a place to buy cushions and tin trinkets, you can now snag yourself a book to get sticky with croissant fingers as you spend your summer Saturdays reading in the park.