More than a laff riot of a Sci-fi B-Movie brought to life, the Toxic Avenger is looking to remake the theatre going experience in Toronto.

This year's KinoArt Festival offers a slew of seldom seen Russian flicks, fronted by new culturally correct versions of Anna Karenina and Taras Bulba.

On a scene where too often a turbulent background is cited as reason enough for behaving badly, Sean Kingston’s the rarer exception. Given the bitterest of lemons to suck on, the hip-hop teen sensation turned it into million-selling lemonade.

Enthusiasts say test tube steaks can save the planet, your life and animal lives too. It may also prove a viable option for vegetarians to chew on.

Add a top gun DNA scientist, an oil giant and algae and wadda get? A new process from genome scientist J. Craig Venter, funded by ExxonMobile to

A googly-eyed cisco hauled out of Great Slave Lake may be very new or a really old relic. Either way, fish biologists are set to scale new heights.

This could be the hottest dead thing since Michael Jackson. Fossils dug up in Burma may be the long-searched for "missing link" between man and just about everything else.

Researchers in an area of Germany famous for its fossil finds have discovered flutes dating to 35,000 B.C., making them the world's oldest known musical instruments.

No better T.Dot way to celebrate Canada Day than to get down in a multicultural way. It doesn't get more danceable than the African Guitar Summit.

Some acts evolve a live zeitgeist so formidable it’s extremely difficult to replicate offstage. Here are 5 playing NXNE 2009 whose live lightning is yet to be bottled on an album.

New findings from the U.S. Geological Survey say there's way more oil in the Arctic than we knew. This is not as fun as it sounds, as wherever oil shows, drilling follows.

So as to supremely piss off his record company, DJ/producer/prankster Danger Mouse will release his next album as a blank CD. Then fans can download all the album tracks through a P2P program. Danger Mouse is snubbing the conventional music route again.

As gun violence in the Toronto rises with the temperatures, the Youth Assisting Youth mentorship program issues an urgent plea for volunteers.

New findings indicate we may be only able to go so far in cleaning up CO2 emissions. Since our urban trees love the stuff, taking it all away is just not an option. Here's to a happy medium.

The Mayan people of Central America once cultivated a super nut crucial to their diet. The Spanish came, using the nut died out, and so did a lot of Mayans. The trees didn't go away so once again some Maya are looking to the ancient nut for a way forward.

Accelerating warming has brought the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the breaking point. What would happen when a chunk of ice the size of Jamaica hits the ocean is anybody's guess.

Wank Punter brought their best glam game, Digging Roots re-imagined the blues, Bella Clava made the keyboards beg for mercy and Malajube proved music is truly the universal language. All this and more from CMW 2009 in Toronto.

In Tehran, Iran Muslim cleric Jafar Ardabili's matchmaking business, previously an underground thing, is becoming a growth industry. Just how much growth the conservative government is willing to tolerate remains to be seen.

Dr. Strangelove lives.The A-Bomb enthusiast would be happy to know the nuclear bomb thing has caught on so widely that discarded weapons grade plutonium litter the landscape. We're not there yet but the incident sure raises some ricklish questions.

This sounds fishy but as Copeia's the journal of the venerable American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH), here goes...