Frigid weather, unclosed streets and some poor woman having been run over by a streetcar notwithstanding, Toronto's 2008 edition of Nuit Blanche was successful in keeping many of us way out past our bed times. This vid represents what we saw outside of La Momma Morta which Adam caught on his stumble home. View more videos and subscribe at DearToronto.com
The Idiotarod is a dog sled race in Toronto. Except instead of sleds the contestants use shopping carts. And instead of dogs the carts are pulled by people. Also, thereâs very little chance of getting bitten by a rabid huskie or mauled by a bear.
On Sunday January 25th, CUPE 3903 held a rally in front of Queen's Park in Toronto to protest back to work legislation announced by Ontario premiere Dalton McGuinty. The event was attended by several hundred union supporters from all walks of life.
Hummingbirds can to hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 15â80 times per second (depending on the species). They can fly backwards, and are the only group of birds able to do so.
Nuit Blanche is an annual âall-night contemporary art thingâ that sees hundreds of thousands of people come out to see public art sprout up along the city streets. Itâs always a really great feeling being out and seeing the streets packed with people who are all so excited to see what the nightâs got ahead of them. Enjoy the haunting performance âLa Momma Mortaâ staged right next to Torontoâs historic St. James Cathedral and look forward to more video from Nuit Blanche coming soon! Subscribe and see more videos at DearToronto.com
The Toronto chapter of Cut&Paste happened this year at the FITC festival of design and technology. Look for me in one of the designs as I happened to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time with my camera.
The Toronto Tree Tours aim to tell compelling stories about the urban forest, connect people to the trees in their neighbourhood, and to teach and encourage people to care for our city’s most valuable resource.
We sure seem to have a thing for Posterchild, but only because his work is awesome. Recently, PC held an exhibition at Hot Shot Gallery wherein he hung up his dead astronaut dolls for Earthlings to ogle.
Adam (dressed as Doctor Who, NOT Sylar) and Ryan (dressed as Frank West, and not pictured anywhere as he was manning the camera) hit Church Street in Toronto on Halloween night to talk to paintings, shower curtains, and Facebook. www.DearToronto.com
On Valentine’s Day The Atomic Cherries performed a sold-out live burlesque show at the Cadillac Lounge on Queen West. NSFW
Left Feet and Heart on Your Sleeve held their first annual Vegan Chili Cookoff, outdoors, in January. DT got some of the secrets to contestant’s chili recipes (hint: beans), and captured the crowning of the best vegan chili cooker in Hogtown.
Gabe Toth is a photographer in Toronto who does some incredible portrait photography, so I was happy to come by and document his latest photoshoot with Superstein’s John Walke. Probably NSFW. For more videos check out http://DearToronto.com
The Bax Bears World Tour is hitting Toronto, bringing the DIY (design-it-yourself) toy-like bears to our city, and enlisting a number of local artists to take on the task of creating unique designs based on the bears.
Le Tigreâs Jd Samson and Johanna Fatemanâs group Men had a srsly oresome 2 hour DJ set at Pride Toronto this year, and were joined on stage by members of Kids on TV for two songs. John Caffrey canât resist shakinâ it when thereâs beats to be heard.
On January 20th, 2008, I Bike T.O. held their first (hopefully annual) Toronto Bike Awards at the Gladstone Hotel, complete with a winter-layering reverse strip-tease skit, cycle-machine races and live music from GUH and DJ duo Dorian and Dorian.
The Toronto Ice Race is an annual event put on by owners The Bike Joint. Racers outfit their typical bike tires with homemade studded tubes and hit the ice (usually with a few bruises to show for it).
Poster Child is a bitchin’ street artist and promoter of all things nifty that coat our city’s urban landscaping. On May 2nd we set up shop at Nathan Philips Square, awaiting the latest drop.
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Dear Toronto #27 - Fashion We-err, Marath-err, BRAAAAAAINS!
October 19th started out as a relatively quiet Sunday by Toronto standards, but little did we know that by the end of the day we would have an insatiable thirst for sweet, tender, under-nourished frontal lobes.
Nothing is better than mechanical monsters designed by the minds of mad scientists as war-raging prototypical beasts hell bent on the destruction of all who oppose them squaring off one on one. www.DearTorono.com sent Rebecca, who was lucky to escape
Earlier today thousands of Torontonians braved the cold and snow in support of two opposing rallies. I'd guess at least 2,000 made their way to Nathan Phillips Square in support of a coalition government, while about 500 rallied at Queen's Park to support the Conservatives and oppose the coalition. There was certainly a lot of strong words said on both sides, and the occasional clash as seen near the end of the video. Regardless of your political inclination, I think today's events speak volumes about how contentious an issue this is for Canadians and how passionate they've become about it.
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