This Friday, November 16, we (Newmindspace) will be hosting our very first lightsaber battle! This summer at Burning Man, we witnessed a 10,000-person lightsaber battle put on by a camp called Watto's Junkyard, easily the largest lightsaber battle since the Jedi Civil War. However, with our limited resources, we realized that without a large donation from a rich weirdo (which are plentiful in San Francisco), we would probably not be able to get the......

Starting at 4:51 on Tuesday morning, the moon will turn from white to red and signal the coming of the End of Days, when Satan shall return to torture you sinners for all eternity and the righteous will ascend to Heaven in rapture. Either that, or the Earth's shadow will fall upon the moon for about three and a half hours. Mid-eclipse happens for Torontonians at precisely 6:37 a.m., when the "blood moon" is......

Tonight, Puerto Rico-born Robbie Rivera (aka the "Juicy Man") comes to This is London to spin his juicy beats with Manzone & Strong. Otherwise we think Toronto will probably be resting up for the next evening. This Saturday is filled with genuinely difficult choices for the breakbeat-inclined weekend warrior. One on hand, Burning Man favourite FreQ Nasty's Toronto stop at Footwork for Activate Promotions' Think:IN:Breakbeat is going to be the dirtiest, nastiest breakbeats this......

In the fall of 1979, 21-year-old Terry Fox, recovering from a recent lower-leg amputation, devised a plan to help support the thousands of Canadians who, like him, had faced off with cancer. He would run across Canada, beginning in St. John's, Newfoundland, and wrapping up on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Figuring the journey would take roughly five months, Fox hoped to raise $1 for every Canadian man, woman and child. The Canadian......

If you're one of those people who doesn't hit the snooze button until five minutes before you actually have to leave for work, you might have caught an interesting announcement this morning on that venerable Canadian news/pap institution known as Canada AM: CTV News has chosen its top ten news stories of 2006. Yes, an "esteemed panel of Canadian journalists," which apparently is CTV's euphemism for their own senior staff, chose ten stories from throughout......

Everyone's been reporting on the Tim Horton's explosion/fire but the Sun gets at the most important question, just what will this do to Tim Horton's stockholders? The answer, probably not much. We're getting smacked around with another mild dose of winter weather. Don't take Torontoist's word for it, take the Weather Office's. The city is staging a five day blitz on idling drivers. They're targetting the busiest part of Front St. right around Union Station.......

A couple of weeks back Torontoist threw down our gauntlet pillow and challenged cities to a pillow fight challenge. Well it seems that our west coast Canadian brethren have picked up the challenge. Apparently No-Funcouver does know how to have fun and staged a large pillow fight right in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery over the weekend. Ok, Newmindspace kids, don't be like the Leafs and let us down. The next pillow fight......

Le Mercredi Mixtape returns. Yep, it's *sixeyes sharing music on Torontoist with you the Torontoist readers. So, put a plug in it, plug in and listen up while Torontoist plugs some recent discoveries and some favourites. 1. Kyle Andrews - "Sushi" Nashville indie-pop upstart, Kyle Andrews, sounds like he's having fun telling us about a Sushi bar and asking, "You gonna save me or not?" Uh, will listening over and over save you? Then,......

Yeah. That's right. I'm back. The mysterious *Sixeyes (a.k.a. Alan Williamson). I am truly hoping that someone out there, in the sweaty mass of humanity called T.O., enjoyed at least one of the songs in last week's Mixtape. Or, at least a few seconds, or notes, of one of those songs. Seven songs that were, and still are, well deserving of more attention. Here is some more indieness, of tone and situation. 1. Rademacher -......

Given the relatively short existence of rap music, tracing its lineage appears fairly simple. The advances in the genre are well-documented: Kool Herc started turntablism, Kurtis Blow first brought rap to the mainstream, Prince Paul popularized skits, Afrika Bambaataa rocked the sample, and so forth and so on. Then there is Dr Dre's classic 1992 album The Chronic, which represents perhaps the most perplexing turn in hip hop history. The album essentially brought West Coast......

This is a bedbug. And while the monstrous little bloodsuckers may not be known to bear tiny little Toronto flags, they are apparently becoming increasingly common in this burgh. The spectre of bedbugs tends to evoke images of peeling wallpaper and unidentified carpet stains and seedy roadside motels called the Palace or the Shangri-La, and yet this association was the product of a relatively short period in the enduring human-insect inter-species scrimmage. Prior to the......

Smooth, gentle, quiet, fast, efficient, popular, fun, red; these are just a few adjectives that describe both the newly re-installed College streetcars and folk artist Oh Susanna. The street cars are back up on College St. after months of construction, and Oh Susanna is back from a quick tour of the West Coast. The Scrappy Bitch is playing Hugh's Room tonight with special guests Elliot Brood and Kathleen Edwards. In a perfect world, it would......

Just because they lost last night to the Sacramento Kings, don't count the Raptors out yet. Although Chris Bosh went 1 for 6, VC 4 for 12, and the team has gone seven straight without a win at ARCO Arena, it doesn't translate to a losing season. Let us NOT forget the Raptors are now an impressive 3-1 on the season, and can still finish this grueling West Coast road trip with a positive start......