It was certainly one of the crowd favourites at last weekend's Nuit Blanche 2008 in Toronto. Enthusiastic crowds gathered at City Hall and used their cell phones to play classic arcade games like Pong on the building's facades.

There's good news for those who didn't have a chance to see the awesome interactive light display. Stereoscope by German artists Blinkenlights will continue to blink away tonight, until 7am on Sunday morning.

Never had to read War & Peace in school? Couldn't get around to seeing one of the many filmic adaptations? Like big music and big voices? If you answered yes to those questions, why not see War & Peace at the Four Seasons Centre as part of the Fall Season at the Canadian Opera Company (COC)?

I must admit, I never even attempted Tolstoy's novel and the films looked daunting, but after seeing the Opera, I think I finally get the full gist of the story. Even amongst the Napoleonic War and the threats against Russian society, there's just something about Natasha Rostov!

This week we're following a handful of Torontonians as they navigate the bilingual lotus land of Pop Montreal.

A hundred pairs of red and blue eyes were aimed at the stage. A band was playing, a smoke machine was coughing and a gang of terrifying, woodland puppets towered over the crowd.

It all went down at 'Le Saints' bar for the closing weekend of Pop Montreal.

I've seen all 25 videos created by the vloggers at Dear Toronto, and this one, by far, deserves top kudos. Whether you were out for Nuit Blanche 2008 or you missed it, this video is worth watching.



That was $17 well spent, eh guys? :)

One drunken night in the early '90s, when I was a rebellious teenager riding the subway, I decided to steal and take home one of the TTC subway route maps that hung unmounted and backlit above the subway doors. It wasn't clear what motivated me, but I'm guessing that my actions were a result of my desire to feel the rush of theft... and in some twisted way, declare my closet transit geek status. I wanted a piece of the subway experience to live on in perpetuity in my bedroom at home.

Fast forward to 2008. Now you don't have to steal to take a piece of the subway home.

Some absolutely stunning Nuit Blanche photos from the 2008 installment in Toronto have been trickling into the blogTO Flickr Pool yesterday and today.

In the one taken by Ryan Coleman above, we see a Nuit Blanche'r looking up at part of Yoko Ono's "Imagine Peace" exhibit in Liberty Village.

And there are lots more to see...