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It's a bit early for the dead to rise this month. Toronto's annual zombie walk—the seventh, can you believe—happened a full week before Halloween. But considering that the cruising speed of the average zombie is slightly faster than the Gardiner Expressway on Friday night, one week is probably about enough time to allow them to complete the course.

There's a speed bump on Crawford Street, not long before the one-way road cuts through the northernmost edge of Trinity Bellwoods Park. After drivers lurch over the bump, explains Martin Reis, they often pick up speed fast, accelerating towards Dundas, through and past a small crossing that joins the isolated north-west tip of Trinity Bellwoods with the park as a whole, a crossing frequented by slow-moving seniors headed for nearby residences.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

     

On Sunday afternoon, one of the coldest days of the year so far, the Art Attack wing of the Toronto Public Space Committee spent several hours turning a TTC shelter into a cozy igloo.

ART: The ROM is launching a new series called "Out of the Vaults" today. The exhibition will display the ceremonial garb of Chief Sitting Bull, including his war shirt, moccasins, and iconic feathered war bonnet, all on display in the Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada. What's more, an original court gown of Marie Antoinette will be on display as part of the exhibition for two weeks starting October 11 in the Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles and Costume, before it gets loaned to the palace of Versailles. The Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen's Park), 10 a.m., $22 (included with admission).

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

Unlike Hazel McCallion who will descend like the angel of death on callous litterbuggers, our mayor prefers a softer, nicer approach to littering. Including this Friday's 20-Minute Toronto Makeover. At 2:00 pm tommorow the Mayor is asking Torontonians of all stripes to clean up their community for 20 minutes. Torontoist would do this everyday if the mayor agrees to wear a cape tommorow during his cleanup.

and is modeled after an annual Parisian festival that began in October of 2002 and has already spread to other cities such as Brussels, Rome, and Madrid.

What a neat idea, and one that we're only catching onto on this, its third, go round. A weekend conversion of alleyways to art spaces, courtesy of AlleyJaunt. All this weekend alleys along the edges of Trinity Bellwoods Park will be "transformed into art exhibits, installations, performance, and film/video venues." Forty artists will be exhibiting their wares, and Sunday evening will feature a 9 pm screening of short films and videos. Heaquarters are at the Northeast corner of the park, and the event runs from 12-6 each day. Participating artists include The CAKE collective, Allyson Mitchell, and Paige Gratland and Rayne Baron, otherwise known as the 'Donut Hoes.' Our curiousity is piqued.

Of course, while here at home we're having the lowest December temperatures in quite a spell, most of Southeast Asia has been slammed by an earthquake/tsunami considered the strongest in forty years. Makes you appreciate a slight chilly snap. Happy Boxing Day All!