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"This advertising space and/or building for lease"

As the popular phrase goes, when one video store door slams shut, another one opens.

On the west side of Dufferin Street, just south of Bloor, is a Wal-Mart. It is (currently) the only one in the former City of Toronto.

Earlier this evening, at around 6:15 p.m., a big crowd was gathered on the west side of Parliament St., just above Shuter St. An ambulance was being loaded up on the east side. At Shuter, Metro's finest were cordoning off the block with police tape. Just inside the tape, a man in a gray t-shirt sat on the curb, crying and shaking. A woman, dressed in white, was explaining to a friend what had happened. "That man on the curb saw the whole thing," she said. "He said a man came out of the mosque and slit his throat." In front of the Masjid Omar Bin Al-Khattab, there was a great puddle of blood on the sidewalk. Outside of the police line, passerby were trying to piece together what happened. Did he slit his own throat? A cab driver thought there had been a fight. Someone said that the injured man had already been taken to the hospital, causing another to ask why there was still an ambulance across the street. Then the bewildered man stepped over the tape, and walked to the two women, holding out a handful of change. "I was on my way to meet my girlfriend and the police won't let me leave," he said to the ladies. "If anyone is going north, could you stop in at the Golden Ring and tell Renée what happened." The ladies said they would. The man offered them his change, but the friend blocked his hand with her cellphone. "No, no, no, keep your money." And they walked up the street to look for Renée.

Each weekday for the next two weeks, 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. Today's matches, Region I + II, 2nd Round:

The Giambroney vs. St. Clair ROW
CN Tower Ice vs. Parkdale
The Beaches vs. Toronto Islands
Jane Jacobs vs. Gas-Fired Power Plant
West Side Lofts vs. Condo Boom
416 vs. Queen West
Yonge Street vs. Anagram Map
Miller's Hair vs. ROM Crystal

Each weekday for the next two weeks, 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 from yesterday's matches: Jane Jacobs makes Yonge-Dundas look square (107-95): The usually untouchable Jacobs was thrown off her game early on by anti-gun rallies, massive video billboards and a late-game PR stunt by a chewing gum company, but pulled ahead with minutes to go. Kyle Rae grabs an assist for a slam dunk by Metropolis. Power Plant burns Megabins (70-66): In a close mid-day victory, Torontonians made it know that they prefer air pollution to visual pollution, and would rather have a clean streetscape than clean air. Zany! Islands silence the Docks (105-35): Residents of Ward Island grabbed points early in the game by distracting the Docks with noise complaints. Reggaeton nights get put on the bench in the second half. Today's matches, Region II, 1st Round:

Bohemian Embassy vs. West Side Lofts
Condo Boom vs. Suburb Growth
416 vs. 905
Queen East vs. Queen West
Yonge Street vs. Porn Shops
Anagram Map vs. TTC's Website
Zombie Walks vs. Miller's Hair
AGO Façade vs. ROM Crystal

We rarely do an Extra, Extra, but tonight's an exception for two reasons: first, two major crime events -- a bus hijacking and a shooting -- happened in downtown Toronto over the past twenty-four hours that merit mentioning; and second, in each story the facts are getting lost along the way and, as usual, the media is muddling the details of what actually (seems to have) happened. It's our goal in this recap to try to synthesize and clarify all the information coming in, as well as point out some holes in the coverage that's out there so far. If you spot a mistake that we make, please let us know in the comments with a link to whatever source you're getting your info from, and we'll correct ourselves.

Blame international architect Will Alsop for the latest Queen West trend.

Artists Jenn Goodwin and Jessica Rose are known around town as the artists behind the Movement Movement, a series of art performances that involve running around art venues like the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, or the Theatre Centre and even non-art venues like City Hall.

Whilst out for a walk on yet another balmy (read: malodorous) night, this Torontoist and her partner in crime noticed the very large billboard for Roots on the west side of Yonge at the Eaton Centre, featuring a very languid Wayne Gretzky. Now, this is really apropros of nothing, but it shocked and amused us nonetheless: when did Wayne morph into what seems to be a blonde k.d. Lang?

One of the cabbies stabbed yesterday sadly did not recover from his wounds and died in hospital yesterday. The fact that his killer was caught on tape and his picture is now everywhere is only small consolation.

The jury deliberating on the Lisa Posluns case was withheld some very gruesome evidence on the history of accused rapist/murderer Nelson DeJesus. The Star has the details here, and the Sun doesn't get left behind either.

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.

- Curiously, recording artists Jamie Lidell (take a blue cd and multiply?), James Blunt (yuck.) and Bluth family member Tobias Funke all have an affinity for blue.

open for business, selling the stacked townhouses that are already being built behind 48 Abell.

Torontoist likes to think that we don't scare quite as easily as we did when we were 7 (when we were terrified that aliens would come and steal our hair), but on Yonge Street this afternoon we were given quite a fright by this singing, dancing robotic (and possibly demonic) Santa. Happy December, everyone. If you find yourself on Yonge between Charles and Wellesley, you might want to stick to the west side of the street, just to be safe.

Eglinton Station, renowned for its creepy washrooms, is also this month's culture station for the Live With Culture 05/06 campaign. And aside from the controversial public space buy-back problems, the station looks a-okay. Above we have the entire west side of Yonge Street, taken strip by strip.

with a stunning score by Leonard Bernstein, marked the beginning of Stephen Sondheim's career as a Broadway lyricist known for his clever, catchy rhymes ("Everything free in America/For a small fee in America..."). In this New York, gang warfare is balletic, accompanied by Bernstein's haunting tunes, and grande jetés have never looked more macho. We dare you to walk away without imitating that signature whistle and finger-snap.