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Kaleidoscope Brings After-School Art Education to Scarborough
An after-school arts program aims to tap students' creative potential. Arts education is vital for individuals and communities, but it isn’t always a funding priority. Enter Kaleidoscope, an after-school program that launched in January 2012 under the auspices of Scarborough Arts. Show More Summary
Photoist: May 7, 2013
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This Shopping Centre Could Be Coming to Kensington Market
What you see in these pictures could become reality on Bathurst Street, if developers get their way. Lost in the shuffle last week was some news about something that has been fraying nerves in Kensington Market for about two years: the prospect of a 12,000-square-metre shopping centre, right on the neighbourhood’s western border. Show More Summary
Spotted: Pothole Warnings
These rogue road markings look like something out of Adam West–era Batman. SPOTTED BY: Martin Reis WHERE: Mostly in the Dovercourt Road area, around Queen Street West WHEN: Over the past few weeks WHAT: These handy, comic-book-styleShow More Summary
Is the Age of the Jazz Club Over in Toronto?
With so many other options available, Toronto jazz fans may no longer need upscale venues. Jazz Bistro was filled to the rafters on its first two weekends, in early April. So why are we left wondering if the age of the upscale jazz club...Show More Summary
What’s on Council’s Agenda: May, 2013
Here's what city council will be focusing on this month. In which we highlight key items from the month’s city council meeting. You can also watch it live. City council is meeting on May 7 and 8. Here are a few items from this month’s agenda that are in the news, or should be. City council will weigh whether or not to: Consider expanding the [...]
Newsstand: May 7, 2013
The sun keeps shining! What is this awesome weather we are having? Could it be...spring? In the news: Ford gets shirty with councillors who support a debate on transit funding, McGuinty is set to testify about cancelling power plants,...Show More Summary
Urban Planner: May 7, 2013
In today's Urban Planner: a TV trivia night at the Gladstone, a planning session for a new theatre, and a play that examines interconnectivity. Trivia: Remember the good old days when girls hunted vampires instead of dating them? If so, you should get on over to TV Trivia Night, where the focus is on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Show More Summary
Extra, Extra: Nameless Parks, Long Walks, and Deli Sandwiches
Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss. The Grid‘s “name that park” contest is down to finalists. One of these five monickers will be attached to a yet-to-be-completed public space in the West Don Lands for all eternity. Will we all need to learn to [...]
The Rob Ford Radio Recap: Free Parking
Every Sunday, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Doug, host The City, a two-hour talk show on Newstalk 1010. We listen so you don't have to. Sunday was a beautiful day to stay inside and listen to the Ford brothers’ radio show! Actually, it was a terrible day to stay inside and listen to the Ford brothers’ radio show. Show More Summary
Rep Cinema This Week: Toronto International Deaf Film & Arts Festival, No, Upstream Color
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. At rep cinemas this week: a celebration of deaf cinema, a political comedy-drama from Chile, and a sci-fi romance. Toronto...Show More Summary
During Paddle the Don, Canoeists Seize a Rare Opportunity
Around 700 people rode canoes down the Don River, which had been flooded especially for the occasion. Lifejackets fastened and paddles in hand, the canoe made a gentle splash and a graceful entrance into the Don River. Bernie McIntyre...Show More Summary
Cherry Blossoms Bloom at High Park
How an international gesture of friendship turned High Park into one of the most popular springtime destinations in Toronto. For a few days each spring, an arguably ironic thing happens in High Park. Hemmed in by winter for months, what...Show More Summary
Duly Quoted: Rob Ford on Bixi
Mayor thinks we should give up on the bike-sharing program. “It should be dissolved. It’s a failure.” —Toronto mayor Rob Ford speaking to reporters today about the future of bike-sharing program Bixi, which is facing an operating shortfall. Show More Summary
Televisualist: Improvising this Post Title Isn’t Going so Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. Monday So tonight is game three of the first-round NHL playoff series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Boston Bruins. The Leafs have tied up the [...]
Newsstand: May 6, 2013
Lovely weather we've been having, eh? In the news: Ford wants the NDP to force an election, charges of TDSB misspending for underprivledged students, and sad news from the Toronto Marathon. Mayor Rob Ford urged the provincial NDP to vote against the budget put forward last week by Premier Kathleen Wynne’s minority Liberal government. Show More Summary
Urban Planner: May 6, 2013
In today's Urban Planner: Playwrights Canada Press hosts readings, a play set on a crashing plane, and SINGular Sensation. Theatre: Playwrights Canada Press holds a (theatre) star-studded reading event for their spring 2013 book launch. Show More Summary
Historicist: Goody Rosen Makes Good
One mensch's hard journey from the sandlots of Toronto to New York's Ebbets Field. “I’ll always remember that season,” Goody Rosen, Toronto-born star of baseball’s Brooklyn Dodgers, would later recall of his career year in 1945. Having already begun to establish himself as a premiere defensive fielder, that summer Rosen found his bat. Show More Summary
Hot Docs Daily: Finding the Funk, Anita, Alias
What to watch at Hot Docs as it gets down to the wire. It ain’t over until it’s over, and there is still one full weekend of Hot Doc’ing left! First up, get grooving and body-moving with Finding the Funk (, 1:30 p.m. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema), a history of the musical genre of funk. Interviewing James Brown, George Clinton, and Sly, the doc looks back at the [...]
Weekend Newsstand: May 4, 2013
We have something very original to say. Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you! If anyone else uses that today, just remember, you heard it here first. Also, the news: Don't bet on a $100-million casino hosting fee just yet, aShow More Summary
