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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Hot Ticket: Minus The Bear & The Meligrove Band, Black Joe Lewis & Hacienda, Buck 65, The Sadies, Chaka Khan & Macy Gray, Mavis Staples & more

Inside the new (and improved) Carlton Cinema

An original Junction bar shows new signs of life

New web site to save Toronto heritage buildings?

The Roots take a break from Fallon outside City Hall

Morning Brew: 'G20 weapons' display and 'logistics' at detention centre not quite right, Iran slams Canada for human rights violations, fire services problems, City back in the black, Vaughan rebrands, cigarillo ban

Radar: Fringe Fest, Toronto Waterfront Festival, Jetsetter Pride Party, Summer Movie Night, Mr. Scruff at Wrongbar

Photo of the Day

Stephen Harper Street Art

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Toronto Police show off their G20 loot

Toronto Dora Awards Winners

Inside the G20 Eastern Avenue Detention Centre

Peaceful protesters demand resignation of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair

Police enforce make-believe security fence law

Toronto Police to review G20 summit tactics

Q&A: John Cruickshank, Publisher of the Toronto Star

NXNE Video: De La Soul, Iggy, Thee Oh Sees, Wavves, Surfer Blood, Kid Sister, Old Man Leudecke, Rah Rah, Warpaint, Women, Zeus & more

Go Transit fails to alleviate concerns about the Georgetown South Project

Morning Brew: horror stories told by detainees, Mayor Miller praises police, Premier McGuinty remains mum, 1000 rally and march in protest, expropriation of land for new TTC subway exits, Bye bye Bosh?

Radar: An Evening of Queer Expressions, the Roots in Nathan Phillips Square, A Taste of Empire, Levon Helm at Massey Hall

Inside the Queen and Spadina detention zone

Photo of the Day

G20 Welcoming Comittee

Monday, June 28, 2010

The G20 wall is coming down

Police chief defends Queen and Spadina Arrests

The best and worst of the G20 Summit in Toronto

Mayor David Miller and the G20 aftermath

This Ain't The Rosedale Library officially deadpool

Toronto Humane Society to re-open today

More than 900 arrested during G20 summit weekend

Videos of the G20 O'Canada protest and police rush

The gourmet burger battle gets another new contender

Late Night in the Bedroom Episode 10: Adam Krawesky, Taxidermy, the Africa Trilogy & The Heartbeat Hotel

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: the Brazilian

Morning Brew: questions galore follow intense G20 weekend, VIA Rail strike averted, OSPCA adoption blitz cancelled after threats, Union Station flooded, World Cup tech tools, frozen yoghurt rivalry

Radar: Rainbow Flag Raising, Dora Mavor Moore Awards, Second City: Live in 3D, Beyond Gay: the Politics of Pride, Dirty Bingo

Photo of the Day

G20 protests at Queen's Park

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Police trap G20 protesters at Queen and Spadina

G20 mashup: Toronto riot cops and Abbey Road

G20 protest messages overshadowed by violence and arrests

The 10 craziest things I saw at yesterday's protests

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: the Mexican

Photo of the Day

The Black Bloc?

Violence on Toronto streets for G20

TTC service resumes in Toronto during the G20 Sunday

G20 protest videos capture chaos on Toronto streets

Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Toronto Jazz Festival

G20 Toronto protest on Friday

The planes of the G20 (cause for Canadian penis envy?)

Frozen yogurt battle: Mon Berri vs. Blushberry

Toronto-based tech tools and the World Cup

Morning Brew: OCAP protest gives glimpse of what's to come, challenging the sweeping powers of the police, the city empties out, winning tickets for Lotto Max are out there, more G20 coverage

Weekend Radar: China's Terracotta Army, Saturday Night Fever, Session Craft Beer Festival, We Are Family, National Canoe Day, Can't Stop the Serenity, Pollinators Festival, PS Kensington, Cooking Fire Theatre Festival

Photo of the Day

G20 Riot Police Toronto

Friday, June 25, 2010

Police take over Toronto streets for G20

Tensions high at OCAP protest

Live video from the G20 front lines: the calm before the storm

G20 Toronto Closures

10 things you probably shouldn't do in Toronto this weekend (but probably can without much worry next weekend)

A new brunch destination in Kensington Market

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: the Swiss

Q&A: David Liss, MOCCA artistic director and curator

Morning Brew: secret G20 law gives police unprecedented powers, Integrated Security Unit watching Twitter and Facebook, opportunistic condo rental gouging, new bike racks at TTC subway station, Peter Street homeless shelter costs rising

Radar: Shout Out for Global Justice, Dream In High Park: Romeo and Juliet, Pride Opening Parties, Goal Dreams, Marty Topps' Ladies Night, Soul Power

Photo of the Day

Japanese Air Force One lands in Toronto

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Native groups protest in Toronto on eve of G20

Condo complex slated for area across from High Park

G20 Toronto Security

Native rights rally marches downtown Toronto

First crossbow seized near G20 security zone

Striking Toronto hotel workers stage demonstration

Trillium Book Awards winners announced

Pride Toronto reverses ban on "Israeli Apartheid"

Fashion & Style

Street Style: at Yonge & Dundas during NXNE

Where to find some of the best pizza east of Ossington

Q&A: Kurt Browning, World Champion figure skater

Morning Brew: fire cancels exams at Cedarbrae, Peel police officer guilty in cocaine sting, tornadoes in Midland, earthquake souvenirs, another G20 arrest, fake lake sneak peek

Radar: Jitters, AIDS Candlelight Vigil, Compose Yourself, Tomson Highway's Kisageetin, Transition Towns, Michael Jackson Charity Tribute Show

Photo of the Day

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Sarah Thomson's campaign manager quits

Some of the funniest tweets about the tremors

Rossi would bring BIAs to City Hall

Couple wins Beech Ave. home battle

Earthquake shakes Toronto

Canada Post sleeper gets the Photoshop treatment

Hotel strike looming

Update on This Ain't the Rosedale Library

The Toronto Fringe Festival 2010

G20 protests hit Toronto in advance of summit

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: the American

Morning Brew: G20 threat arrest, court injunction on sound cannon use, sleeping Canada Post mail carrier caught on camera, Toronto 18 jury struggling, help from Barrie, merging fire and EMS, protester fashion advice, Toronto lands on Monopoly board game

Radar: Cooking Fire Theatre Festival, Sexy Smart Calendar Launch, Hardly Magazine Party, Abracadaberet, Eros, Thanatos and the Avant Garde

The Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival

Photo of the Day

Toronto transportation x 3

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A billion bucks buys this?

Q&A: Piers Handling, CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival

A diner opens at Bloor and Lansdowne

The G20 Summit Resident Information Guide

Morning Brew: G20, G20, G20, G20, G20, zoo animals found safe, Chinatown shopkeeper's trial deferred to the fall

Radar: The Book Revue with Geoff Pevere, Dime Store Novels, the Zoobombs at the Silver Dollar, Drama and Desire, Outre

Photo of the Day

Helicopters arrive in Toronto for the G20

Monday, June 21, 2010

G20 Protests have begun

City plans for two new soil recycling plants

Water cannons to control G20 crowds

Deadpool looming for This Ain't the Rosedale Library?

G20 fence is complete

Smitherman to improve beaches, teach kids to swim

Fashion & Style

Street Style: at the Hyatt Regency during NXNE

A good filter on vintage design

Fashion & Style

Tavi Gevinson, Style Rookie

Toronto Island Concert with Broken Social Scene

Morning Brew: This apparently Ain't a Sustainable Bookstore, another plane crash near Buttonville Airport, security sweep at Allan Gardens, have you seen this cat?, John Tory supporters pushing him to join mayoral race

Radar: Akira Kurosawa at Cinematheque, Fiery Furnaces at the Drake Hotel, Elevate to Exhale, Playwrights Canada Press Spring Launch, Go Skateboarding Day

Photo of the Day

We Ride at Dawn...

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Strange Boys and Southern weirdos at NXNE

NXNE Photos: Les Savy Fav, Surfer Blood, Mannequin Men & The Grates at Wrongbar

Last chance for Luminato 2010

Pizza and kababs together at last

Fashion & Style

Stylish handbags arrive in Toronto

The Royal Botanical Gardens

Fashion & Style

MTV's Dan Levy is a DJ too

Ontario's Greenbelt transported to Toronto's harbourfront

Photo of the Day

Toronto the bizarre

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Spacesuits and one epic BBQ at NXNE

NXNE Photos: Thee Oh Sees, Said The Whale, La Strada, Whale Tooth, Nightbox & Old Crowns

Fashion & Style

Topshop in Toronto

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: the All-African

Church Street heritage buildings face wrecking ball for 25 storey condo

Fashion & Style

Morning Brew: more on the G20, Drake's not scared just real nervous, Doneit-Henderson frightened of Ford, hitting the hookah in clubland, are you rich this morning?

Weekend Radar: Empire of Dreams, Fiction in the Age of E-Books, NXNE Film Wraps Up, Toronto Small Press Book Fair, Dragon Boat Race Festival, M.U.C.K. Film Festival, Clay & Paper Theatre's Day of Delight, Taste of Little Italy

Photo of the Day

What's going on here?

Friday, June 18, 2010

NXNE Photos: Women, DDMMYYYY, Best Coast, Volcanoless in Canada, Demon's Claws, Burning Love & The Pack A.D.

Councillor pulls Wrongbar's extended license for Pride

Leslie Street Spit to get $8M revamp

Night One of NXNE 2010: Rituals, Demon's Claws, X, Thee Oh Sees

TTC boasts 94 per cent of bus routes now accessible

Artists to showcase at G20 media pavilion

Fashion & Style

Street Style: punk rock, ninja and heroin on a yacht

Details of Eaton Centre makeover released

Q&A: William Thorsell, CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum

Nostalgia Tripping: the Toronto Purchase

Outdoor movies in Toronto this summer

NXNE gets Interactive for the first time

Morning Brew: Rob Ford drug tape leaked, taxpayers on the hook for service station renewal costs, U.S. issues travel advisory for Toronto, record Lotto Max jackpot tonight, Trillium island ferry celebrates 100th anniversary

Radar: Taste of Little Italy, Suburbanxxx, Rock 'n Rogue Vintage Menswear Pop-Up Shop, Leaving Hate Behind: The Nate Phelps Story, The Border as Fiction

Photo of the Day

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Drake's ice cream shop now open

Pug Award winners announced, Rob Ford turns Rexdale into Rosedale and Sarah Thomson wants to bury Hydro lines

NXNE at the CN Tower with The Balconies, Hollerado & The Meligrove Band

Fossilized cricket brulee just one of many Toronto Tastes

Morning Brew: ditching work on June 25th, hospital beds being freed up but blood shortages feared, criminal pardons bill fast-tracked, more weirdness from the Rob Ford camp, veteran police officer charged with theft, a free couch not worth snagging

Radar: MADGlee, The Soldier's Tale, Return to El Salvador, Toronto Firefighters Calendar Competition, Manhunt Toronto

Photo of the Day

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Toronto Condos ditching City recycling program

Toronto woman suing Rogers for exposing her affair has allies

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: the Uruguayan

Sherbourne Commons is new name for Waterfront park

Canadian Labour Congress to hold largest G20 demonstration

Street hockey may become legal on city roads

Q&A: Sharlene Chiu, MTV News

NXNE Audio & Video: Ghost Bees, Krupke, Evening Hymns, The Balconies, The Mountains and The Trees, Gold Lake, Styrofoam Ones and more

Can FOMO save the Club District?

Morning Brew: Eaton Centre facelift, saplings being removed for G20, police uniform thefts, guilty pleas in Aqsa Parvez case, arrest after hit-and-run on Dupont, street racing mom

Radar: Wish Come True Festival, Canadian Songbook: Bruce Cockburn, Speak the F**k Up!, East/West in Canadian Ficiton, NXNE

Photo of the Day

Brazil beats North Korea, celebration starts, traffic stops

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Rogers places illegal ads on Toronto sidewalks

International Festival of Authors 2010 lineup announced

A showcase of Canadian hip hop at the Opera House with Shad, D-Sisive, Ian Kamau, Odario Williams & more

Robyn Hitchcock channels Nick Drake at The Drake

Food for football fans

Luminato Ship O' Fools in Trinity-Bellwoods Park

Morning Brew: Casa Loma faltering, THS set to reopen River Street shelter, Entertainment District offering "summit deals" to lure customers, Black Bloc profiled, free swan rides, lipstick on a football coach

Radar: Azar Nafisi, It Came from Kuchar, the NXNE Poster Show, The New Pornographers at the Sound Academy, Queer Family Pride Party

Photo of the Day

A view worth the vertigo

Monday, June 14, 2010

Giant G8 heads arrive in Toronto

A new vision for the Toronto waterfront?

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: The Italian

Toronto considers "bike boxes"

Metrolinx buys 182 more Bombardier streetcars

Has Cora Pizza finally got the message?

Woofstock and the 2010 World Cup collide

Q&A: Kevin O'Leary, Dragons' Den

Morning Brew: Rob Ford leads in poll, aggressive dogs shot in Mississauga, teen stabbed outside Forest Hill house party, stealing plants, watching World Cup soccer at work, Dion Phaneuf to be named Leafs captain

Radar: Ben Okri, Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna, Jill Barber at Dakota Nights for War Child, Roddy Doyle, Magician Asi Wind

Photo of the Day

Which one of these photos is more disturbing?

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Sunday Supplement: G20 insanity, some Toronto historicity, and a little lottery opportunity

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: The German

Where to find super sandwiches

Le Gourmand in the Deadpool

Photo of the Day

World Naked Bike Ride Toronto

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Some nice pictures of some nice dogs (a teaser post)

Malkovich shines but the avant-garde aspects of The Infernal Comedy fall flat

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: The Englishman

Phase II of the MaRS development remains a stump

Morning Brew: the latest G20 news, tent city outside MuchMusic put to an end by police, Toronto welcomes the 2010 World Cup and Luminato Festival, a Turkey Vulture in Leslieville

Weekend Radar: Late Night in the Bedroom, African Literature at Luminato, World Naked Bike Ride, Woofstock, Toronto Horse Day, The Bicycle: Fighting AIDS with Community Medicine, Give Me a Sine, Pedal the Humber, InspiraTO Festival

Photo of the Day

Attitude Is Everything

Friday, June 11, 2010

Get your new Toronto neighbourhood maps

Political debate meets gameshow at VoteTO's "So You Think You Can Council?"

Toronto's World Cup Warriors: The Frenchman

The Psychedelic Furs at Lee's Palace

Morning Brew: TTC union president facing theft charges, drinking and biking, decriminalization of road hockey, no-fly zone during G20, Ford taking Rae to task on retirement party money, police to photograph teens at Beach jazz festival

Radar: Arcade Fire Secret Shows, Luminato Festival, The Trigger Festival, The Toronto Irish Film Festival, Triple Trooper Trevor Trumpet Girl, Partyer Down

Photo of the Day

G20 Road Closure Alert!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Open call for reader-submitted photo essays

Fashion & Style

Street Style: at the Billy Talent surprise concert

Fashion & Style

Summer fashions (and meat) at Parts & Labour

Before Bar Salumi, there's always The Local

Q&A: Amanda Lang, Business Reporter CBC News

Morning Brew: cell phone jammers during G20, condo owners cash in on G20, vehicle idling bylaw gets stricter and TTC claims it can't comply, immigrants face worsening employment and financial challenges, child porn isn't art

Radar: The Africa Trilogy, Between Black & White, The Peretzniks, Rethink Romp, Synthfest #4, Franco-Fete

Photo of the Day

Mississauga Sunset

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Toronto Hydro pushed to start powering with solar power

Boardwalk Cafe 20 year deal stands

Kite flying and 17 more things you can't do during G20

New Church Street condo deal sparks community uproar

Arcade Fire reveals "secret" Toronto shows

Summerlicious restaurants and menus revealed today

Where to watch the World Cup in Toronto

Dim sum down by the lake

Hot Ticket: Shad & D-Sisive, Lost In The Trees, Grouper, Man Forever, Pocahaunted & Doldrums, Juan Maclean and The Golden Filter

Kurosawa retrospective comes to Toronto

Morning Brew: suspicious fertilizer purchase, compensation for Toronto-area First Nations, City's secret parking ticket manual made public, Smitherman going to China, Starbucks in The Junction?

Radar: Alli's Journey, Circus Camp for Adults, Critic's Talk by Nadja Sayej, Maternity Rolls Book Launch, Peace Series, Hear/Hear Reading Series

Photo of the Day

Fire at Indian Road

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

G20 Grafitti hits Toronto

Fake lake is actually $57,000

G20 Security firm not licensed to work in Ontario

Toronto's G20 fence in photos

Free summer movies at Metro Square

Giorgio Mammoliti plans include Sky Parks, tolls, Moses

Monopoly on the Beaches boardwalk

Fashion & Style

Street Style: Distillery District

Yeah, the Dutch know how to make ice cream too

Audio & Video: Shad, The Meligrove Band, Sandman Viper Command, Gord Downie, Broken Social Scene, Zeus, Vangel, Hawksley Workman, Born Ruffians, The Reason, & more

Morning Brew: High Park house explosion, Espresso Institute of North America, John Tory not running for mayor, Pride decision causing major rift, toddler forced cocaine, largest lottery jackpot in Canadian history

Photo of the Day

Convocation Hall, U of T

Monday, June 7, 2010

Don't feed the animals, G20 security fences are up

Parts & Labour proves it's a legit music venue too

Toronto Women's Bookstore names new owner

TTC looks into cashless pay system

Sham dam? What to call the G20 fake lake

Design selected for St. Lawrence Market North

Q&A: Matthew Teitelbaum, CEO of the AGO

Power Ball 2010 is candy, pandabears and debauchery

French Horn Rebellion at Wrongbar

Morning Brew: sexsomnia, internet sex ad mugging scheme, tornados and weather radios, firefighters dodge fireworks, fake Muskoka for G8 journalists, Cito Gaston turns down all-star gig, G20 fence going up

Radar: Doc Now, Rower's Pub Reading Series, Lolita, Silverstein and Laura Bush

Photo of the Day

Queen's Park Station

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Is this the top Tibetan restaurant in Toronto?

Disillusioned with Adam Giambrone

Sunday Supplement: the mayoral race heats up, the sound of "sound cannons," pet funerals in the Beaches, hazing in Mississauga, quotable Kevin Clarke & more

First Canadian Place gets a new skin

Photo of the Day

Korean Festival, Christie Pits

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Toronto protest against Israeli flotilla attack

Toronto through the eyes of Leah McLaren

We Rise, the Seven Samurai and West-End street art

Morning Brew: May election polls reveal many undecided voters, Torontonians want TTC board reform, DVP to become "Route of Heroes," no luck for the "Fixer," First Canadian Place losing its marbles, and an unhappy ending in Oakville

Weekend Radar: Indie Literary Market, Bike-In Movie Night, Back to You: A Dear John (Mayer) Letter, Dundas Street Design Workshop, the Thank You Girls, Standards, Doggie Doggelganer Contest, Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto Festival of Clowns

Photo of the Day

Jarvis Street, Toronto

Friday, June 4, 2010

The perfect weather, perfect light & the perfect height

Fashion & Style

Street Style: Hip & Urban Girl Launch

Will Marilyn's curves save Mississauga?

Morning Brew: Bear sightings, worker hazing in Mississauga, former Hydro One CEO fights for higher pension, Ron Maclean helps in river rescue, G20: video surveillance galore, Novotel pickle, Via Rail avoiding Union Station

Radar: The Beer and Cocktail Show, Subtle Technologies Sustainability Festival, The Corpse Bride, Diverse Bicycle City, Femiforma, Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party

Photo of the Day

Eaton Centre Geese

Thursday, June 3, 2010

First funeral home for pets to open in the Beaches

Paul McCartney to play Toronto

Toronto Transit Museum plans push forward

Virgin Festival 2010 canceled

Toronto hotel workers vote to strike

Q&A: Tony Cohen, Co-Partner Thompson Toronto Hotel

A closer look at Toronto's tattoo parlours

Wrongbar feuds with neighbors over capacity expansion

Toronto through the eyes of Joe Pantalone

Nostalgia Tripping: Sunnyside Beach Pavilion

Morning Brew: More on the Gulf oil spill, McCallion pleads ignorance, RCMP disagrees with use of "sound cannons," protesters shouldn't expect quality medical care at the G20, calorie counts coming to fast food menus?

Radar: InspiraTO Festival, Bamako in Toronto, Toronto Festival of Clowns, John Doyle's the World is a Ball, A Jew Grows in Brooklyn, Soul in the Cellar

Photo of the Day

Ghost bike at City Hall

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Jane Farrow turns down Honoured Dyke title

Dora nominees announced

Bus service for Ontario parks

Marc Thuet better without the convicts

Better Ballots mayoral debate invites the fringe element

Fashion & Style

Amanda Lew Kee more than memoirs of a gothic geisha

The Sour Notes at The Horseshoe plus Trap Tiger

Morning Brew: TTC token fraud trial, sex assaults at seniors' home, employee abuse at City of Mississauga facility, Councilor Sandra Bussin controversies, ROM launches new programs for the deaf and blind

Radar: Howie the Rookie, Make Some Noise Workshop with Indie Insider Vish Khanna, the Last Waltz at the Bloor Cinema, Authors at Harbourfront, Polyphony

Photo of the Day

Toronto Cooling Station

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

John Tory steals the spotlight

Bus shelters and garbage cans to be removed for G20

Couples can marry on Pride float

Trillium Book Award Finalists Announced

Inside the Lesbian and Gay Archives

The Gulf Coast oil spill in comparison to Toronto

Fashion & Style

Strut For a Cure and the lovely Coco Rocha

Electric bikes and scooters in Toronto

Morning Brew: Pantalone proposes online voting, CAA offers roadside assistance for bikes, G20 security contract awarded to Vancouver-based company, gulf oil spill in local terms, TDSB hearts Nikki Yanofsky, needles found in Piller's Polish sausages

Radar: Worldwide Short Film Festival, Work T.O.gether, Opera Erotique, Book Launch: The West Bank Graphic Novel, Hunger Awareness Day

Photo of the Day

Romance at Nathan Phillips Square

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