Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist Unknown and BOOKSAT GLEN BAILLIEPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto.......

The wheatpaste of Fathima Fahmy was the first to go up just over a month ago. Two stories tall, it stands on the side of a newly-vacant apartment building slated for demolition in the heart of Regent Park. Since then, ten other larger-than-life portraits of other residents like her—those living in the fleet of low-rise buildings that are to be torn down and built on top of as part of Toronto Community Housing's $1 billion......

Spotted in the north elevator of an upscale North York condo.......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By TeethAT DUNDAS AND MARKHAMPHOTO BY TEETH......

Near Bloor and Church—actually the Yellow Pages getting cute while begging us to stop using that crazy Google thing. Photo by Patrick Metzger.......

Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto.......

It took them two days and thirteen hours, but Nancy Situ and her friends have joined the Every Station Club in style—with brilliant photos of themselves posing on the platforms of every one of the city's sixty-nine subway stations. The project, Situ wrote when she posted the entire set of shots to the Toronto LiveJournal Community last night, was done "out of curiosity and sheer boredom." On September 1 last year, Situ, Marcela Slinin,......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownIN AN ALLEY OFF OXFORD, NEAR SPADINAPHOTO BY JOULGER......

fuck this grassroots gone corporate This post + this post = this post. Discuss. Photo taken at the northeast corner of Queen and Spadina by Jonathan Goldsbie.......

Since it was built in 1887, the Alexandrina Block on College Street west of Spadina has seen numerous tenants come and go, including The Bagel music venue. Among its current elements is a 1970s-style sign promising over a dozen variety of submarine sandwiches. Those hoping for a retro experience will be disappointed as all that remains of the self-proclaimed "Rolls Royce of submarines" is the sign, fully intact and party covered by a tree.......

We've looked at a few abandoned roads before, but this one is a little different: it's a recently-abandoned on-ramp to the southbound Don Valley Parkway from westbound York Mills Road. The current DVP ramps at York Mills were reconfigured during construction to the overpass beginning in 2005. The northwestern loop of the cloverleaf was eliminated entirely except for one small detail: most of it is still there. After all, why remove it completely when......

Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto.......

The new TTC ad campaign is doubly noble of purpose—it doesn't just encourage us to keep the system tidy, but engages in a little social engineering by depicting workers and riders marching hand in hand towards a glorious trash-free future, emotionally unhindered by grudges or memories of the late unpleasantness. In the ad above, the passenger is doing her duty, placing her newspaper carefully in her purse until a suitable receptacle for disposal can......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownNEAR DUNDAS AND KENSINGTONPHOTO BY JOULGER......

Every Wednesday, Torontoist receives transmissions from the travel log of Gleebax, the alien Urbanaut, as he explores the foreign land of Toronto.......

Toronto has experienced some erratic and spectacular weather recently, so pair a thunderstorm with our often rotten, hollow tree canopy and carnage often ensues. This particular space became double parked around six this evening near Shaw and Harrison Streets, and though this type of destruction is not uncommon, things might have been worse. Now, would the owner of a black Volkswagen hatchback please report to the sidewalk? We have some bad news. Photo by......

There's nothing particularly remarkable about spotting wildlife in the Don Valley, but wildlife in the middle of the Don Valley Parkway is another matter entirely. Most animals shy away from traffic and roads, but this solitary groundhog took up residence south of Eglinton Avenue in the highway median between the north- and southbound lanes of the Parkway several months ago. It's frequently visible from the northbound lanes during the afternoon and evening, and has......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownAT AVENUE AND FOXBARPHOTO BY GALA......

The construction hoarding around the perennially under-renovation Bloor and Gladstone Library has been serving as an outdoor gallery for local and visiting artists since last November, when a series of framed photographs by a photographer known only as "P3" appeared. Anyone can add their own work to this wonderfully improvised and growing exhibition—just don't forget your screwdriver. When reached for comment, staff at Toronto Public Library said they had no knowledge of the installation.......

While Torontoist usually shows how the city has been used by movie producers, home-grown small-screen productions have also made ample use of our city's streets since CBLT came on the air in 1952. Back in 1971, comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster used downtown as a backdrop for an exciting new sport, city golf. Over the course of 18 holes, cameramen preserved pieces of the city that development has changed significantly in the ensuing......

Park at your own risk near Yonge and Gloucester. Photo by rupert affen.......

Dear Distillery District, We really like you, but that doesn't mean that we can't offer suggestions for improvement. We'd like to introduce your sign makers to two magic words: "during construction." They could help avoid giving visitors the wrong impression about the pride you have in the site and your stores. Wordfully, TOist.......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownNEAR CROFT AND ULSTERPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Way up in the very northwestern corner of the city, the old Indian Line used to mark the boundary between Etobicoke and Peel Region (Mississauga and Brampton). The road carved its way through farm fields and across a bridge over the Humber River before continuing north past Steeles Avenue. Most of the old road was effectively wiped out by the initial construction and subsequent widening and extending of Highway 427 starting in the late......

Street artist and former Torontoist contributor Fauxreel (which, contrary to what The Globe and Mail says, is not his real name; it's Dan Bergeron) received both a considerable amount of disdain and a considerable amount of cash recently (as well as some praise), when he designed and helped execute a nationwide corporate vandalism campaign on behalf of a well-known motorized vehicle brand. At the time, Torontoist attempted to contact "Mr. Reel" (as the Globe......

We should have known! The culprits responsible for the Pac-Man recreation on a streetcar shelter outside Kensington Market have stepped forward, and they're neither advertisers nor immoralists: they're Teeth (responsible for this charming bear-woman) and our very own Posterchild (who is something of a fan of video games). The two collaborated to put up three nearly identical installations along Spadina: one at Spadina and Harbord (pictured above, at top); one at Spadina and Queen......

On Friday, reader Russ Morgan spotted Pac-Man on Spadina. Someone had converted one of the panels of the streetcar shelters between Baldwin and Nassau to depict a stand-off straight out of the classic video game: to the south, a big pixelated Pac-Man; to the north, Pokey, a big pixelated orange ghost; and, between them, a big pixelated cherry power-up. The yellow dots that always line the streetcar shelters, untouched by the artist, magically became......

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. Artist UnknownIN AN ALLEYWAY OFF KENSINGTONPHOTO BY SOPWITH......

Not long after 11 p.m. on Thursday night, those just south of Yorkville got treated to an impromptu, spectacular, and very illegal fireworks show, launched by partygoers on a south-west facing balcony of one of the condos atop the Windsor Arms hotel at St. Thomas and Bloor. The first set of fireworks was visible from at least as far away as Museum station, where a small pack outside the subway watched, cheered, and shouted......