With Toronto summer weather winding down, and the major city festivals wrapping up, the city is transitioning into fall. Soon, with the cool autumn weather just around the corner, the jackets and scarves will come out, and wine connoisseurs will ...

The Color Run®, the happiest 5k on the planet, is bringing its 2017 tour theme, “The Color Run Dream Tour, Presented by Lay’s®” to Toronto on Saturday, August 12. The Color Run Dream Tour will create a world where anything ...

The Omni King Edward Hotel (on King St. just east of Yonge) opened on May 11, 1903 at six a.m. and welcomed its first paying guest, John A. Davidson of Chicago–who had supplied the marble for the hotel–who was shown ...

Listening to music as you cut the lawn or use a chainsaw is a lovely idea. The reality? Not so much: The roar from the gas-powered motor usually blasts out the sound in your headsets, at best. At worst, it ...

From a star system dedicated to love come the nine dance tracks of “LoveStar,” a follow-up to Downtown Toronto musician Jon O’Bergh’s acclaimed electronic dance album “Future World.” Alien beings, robots, and passionate lovers join forces to celebrate love over ...

Bishop’s Block is on the northeast corner of Simcoe and Adelaide, a block west of University Ave. When first built in 1829 it was considered the finest apartment building of its day with stores on the ground floor and private ...

In 1849, wealthy landowner John Ritchey built the Royal Lyceum Theatre on King St. W. It was Toronto’s first purpose-built theatre. The Lyceum (which eventually burned down in 1875) was the largest and the first fully-equipped theater in Toronto. It had ...

Anxious citizens voiced their concerns early and often at the final public consultatio—held at the Wellesley Community Centre—for the new rooming-house policies being considered by the city of Toronto. Mohamed Shuriye (senior policy and research officer from the Municipal Licensing ...

Metrolinx held its first public meeting for the proposed expansion of the Union Station Rail Corridor last night at the Lucie and Thornton Blackburn Conference Centre on the campus of George Brown College. Manuel Pedrosa—Community Relations Manager for Metrolinx—began the ...

Hailing from the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Tundra Fun was formed by the band’s leading member, Jay Richards, in 2007. I got to speak with him last month about the group’s evolution, his personal fears as a musician, and what ...