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.Read: Televisualist: Also Known As “The Inferior Thanksgiving”

From a media release:

NIGHTWOOD THEATRE announcesThe New Groundswell Festival 
A National Festival of Contemporary Women’s Theatre
November 30 to December 10, 2011Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs26 Berkeley Street, Toronto, ON.Toronto, ON… N…

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Malian Maestro Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni BaNovember 27, 2011The Great Hall, Toronto
TORONTO – Batuki Music Society presents Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba with opening act Daniel Nebiat on Sunday November 27th, 2011 at The Gr…

Each week, Now in Rep Cinema compiles the best repertory and art house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements.     DiaboliqueTIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West)November 22, 6:30 p.m.     Take ShelterRevue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Avenue)November 25–27     MoneyballFox Theatre (2236 Queen Street East)November 25–27     The Evil League [...]

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Chris McKhool JUNO Nominee & 3x Parents’ Choice Award Winner& Special Guests: Suba Sankaran, Aviva Chernick, Shannon Thunderbird, Maryem Hassan Tollar, Ernie Tollar, Jordan Klapman, & Sultans of String!”Celebrate:&nbs…

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Jon Brooks CD ReleaseFriday, November 25, 8pmTrinity St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St West, Toronto

[Toronto ON]  Canadian topical (and eternally hopeful) songcrafter Jon Brooks releases his new CD, DELICATE CAGES, at Toron…

VideoCabaret’s The Life and Times of Mackenzie King is a black-box experience, exploding with colourful costumes and technical tricks, that presents Canadian history saturated in satire.

The Life and Times of Mackenzie King The Cameron House (408 Queen Street West) November 10 to December 11, 8 p.m. $20–$40 If all high-school history classes in Canada were taught by Michael Hollingsworth, our generation would probably be less obsessed with which bearded Hollywood beau hunk did or didn’t deserve to be titled the [...]

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Please join us from November 24th – November 27th for:REEL AWARENESS – Amnesty International Toronto’s 6th Human Rights Film FestivalNovember 24-27th, 2011National Film Board, 150 John Street (Toronto)TORONTO – Amnesty Interna…

Nacional Records sent me this download and I can’t stop listening to it. Luckily I can pass along a free download from the CD that’s coming out today.

CD Release: CYPRESS HILL/BEASTIE BOYS percussionist Eric Bobo and Chilean DJ/turntablist Latin Bitma…

Dear Readers: The United States currently has 25% of all the people in prisons around the world. Part of this is from their disastrous war on drugs, part of it is from the influence of the Right Wing, and part of it is just a case of the justice system gone wild in that country. [...]

In this week’s Declassified, we look at those who are looking for love.Read: Declassified: Candy and Other Magnificent Things

Because Toronto’s more movie obsessed than a Quentin Tarantino screenplay (yuk yuk), Torontoist brings you Now on Screen, a weekly roundup of new releases. Click on any film title for our review.     Café de FloreDIRECTED BY JEAN-MARC VALLÉE Showtimes     The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1DIRECTED BY BILL CONDON Showtimes

Going back to the future for the team’s 2012 look.

“The blue is back in Blue Jays.” So declared team president Paul Beeston as the Blue Jays officially unveiled their logo and uniforms for the 2012 season at a noon press conference, confirming rumours we reported two months ago. The new look revives several classic team designs: the original-style bird, split lettering, a red maple [...]

Satisfy those 4 a.m. saffron-rice cravings at a Don Mills bar and restaurant.

In a dingy strip mall in Don Mills, there’s an amazing restaurant that serves what just might be the best rice in Toronto. Darband Restaurant is a 24-hour bar and restaurant that serves Iranian food. In fact, the 10-year-old restaurant is often busiest at 4 a.m., as it serves as a gathering place after concerts [...]

After a six-hour break, the Twitter critter returns to waddling and scavenging.

It seems the reports of @City_Raccoon’s death were, if not greatly exaggerated, premature. After the unmasked bandit signed off yesterday afternoon, his outer, Jonathan Goldsbie, took some heat from the Twittersphere (some sending friendly jabs, some REAL MAD). Maybe it was to halt the Twitter uproar, or maybe the little guy just has a insurmountable [...]

Dear Readers; I have stated repeatedly that here in Canada I am a Conservative fiscally, and a liberal socially.   I hope I in no way resemble those Conservatives in the States, led by that asshole Rush Limburger! (How these idiots can still deny global warming in spite of all the evidence is beyond me, [...]

A new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum features new discoveries from Mayan ruins and addresses the legends surrounding 2012.

Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park) November 19, 2011–April 9, 2012 $25 adults, $22.50 students and seniors As we approached the seating area for a press conference about the Royal Ontario Museum’s next major exhibit yesterday, we were greeted by a man in blue body paint and a tall [...]

It is with deep regret that we inform you that @City_Raccoon has gone to rummage in a compost bin in the sky.

For the past few weeks Toronto’s tweeps have been charmed by the antics of a furry masked bandit named @City_Raccoon. He did what all raccoons do: peered through windows, ripped open trash bags, and spooked passersby with scary glow-in-the-dark eyes. It was a distinctly Toronto-esque bit of fun: the creature we all join in hating [...]

Pity the poor black kids in Toronto. While their parents try to better their chances for a productive life, the School Board is condemning them to menial jobs and social marginalization that is not much better than slavery. Mark my words folks, even though an “Afrocentric” high school will have all those black kids studying [...]

Future innovators learn the basics of robotics at the Ontario Science Centre’s Robots Rule! Weekend.

Robots sure do get around these days. They star in Bjork’s music videos, steal people’s jobs, vacuum, and haunt our dreams. It’s a classic “rapidly expanding field,” robotics is, with applications cropping up in more and more spheres from health care to household chores, manufacturing to space exploration. And though we’ve known the robots were [...]