Love it or hate it, the city is once again covered in holiday glitter and glamour. I've been searching all corners of Toronto for holiday exhibitionism, good or bad, and for each of the remaining 10 days until Christmas I'll be posting a different photo essay documenting the annual make-over. Today I feature snowflakes.

I had every intention of including at least one actual falling snowflake in this series, but over the past couple weeks Toronto hasn't had much in the way of snowfall, at least nothing like the massive piles of last winter. Still, it wasn't that hard to find decorative snowflakes in store windows, on coffee cups and hanging everywhere across the city - small prophets of what's still to come.

Love it or hate it, the city is once again covered in holiday glitter and glamour. I've been searching all corners of Toronto for holiday exhibitionism, good or bad, and for each of the remaining 11 days until Christmas I'll be posting a different photo essay documenting the annual make-over. Today I feature Christmas trees.

Big, small, simple or gaudy, Christmas trees are the show pieces of holiday decorations. Unlike wreathes and snowmen, trees can deliver "ooh"s and "ahhh"s, pushing and shoving, and enough excitement that there is no chance to get within a few feet of the tree. Of all the decorations I've seen this year, only Christmas Trees have garnered people to stop and take photos, not just of the tree, but of them in from of the tree, and truth be told, Christmas Trees are the only decorations to have shown up in my friends facebook photo galleries, so that says something I guess. I've lived vicariously through them all this year, my tree is only one foot tall, strong enough to hold only a tiny bow.

Love it or hate it, the city is once again covered in holiday glitter and glamour. I've been searching all corners of Toronto for holiday exhibitionism, good or bad, and for each of the remaining 12 days until Christmas I'll be posting a different photo essay documenting the annual make-over. Today I feature wreaths.

Before I started collecting holiday photos about a week and a half ago, I had never paid much attention to the countless decorations adorning each block this time of year. I learned rather quickly that wreaths, by far and away, are the most common item for decoration (I'm not counting round tree ornaments or red bows, those are a little too generic). Wreathes are everywhere!

I've never reviewed a television program before, and it's rarely done on blogTO, but after seeing an advanced copy of tonight's episode of SNAPSHOT on Bravo! I thought I would spread the word. SNAPSHOT is a six-episode series exploring innovative photographers from Canada. Tonight's show documents Toronto photographer Robyn Cumming.

The shows explores her world not simply through interviews, but by taking the viewer behind the scenes of her work, showing how she interacts with her subject during a photo shoot, shops for props, prints in the darkroom, and mingles with guests at her exhibit. As a photographer, I was compelled. Her images are complex and entirely memorable, so to watch her work, see what and how she uses her equipment, and in general being a fly on the wall in her world was captivating.

As a Toronto unilingual, it's not surprising I've never listened to CHIN radio. In fact, other than the CHIN picnic and the name Johnny Lombardi, I didn't know anything about CHIN except that they had a building somewhere on College street in Little Italy. After a little research, a visit to the station and a quick interview with the Italian morning show host I couldn't help feel a great pride in the station and a greater pride in Toronto.

The 42-year old station now broadcasts in over 30 languages in Toronto on two different frequencies, 100.7 FM and 1540 AM. While the majority of weekday programming is in Italian, at different times you can hear entire programs in Cantonese, Croatian, Bengali, Punjabi, Somali, Macedonian and Spanish, just to name a few. When CHIN began in 1966, it was the first multicultural radio station in Ontario. Now there are at least two others, CMR 101.3 and CIRV 88.9.

I talked with radio host Edoardo Monasterolo about working at CHIN, Toronto's multiculturalism and his program Wake up Italian Style.

I remember being surprised when Toronto got an all sports radio station in 1992. I was young, and at the time thought there was only one team in town, the Blue Jays. Over the years, I've listened to The Fan 590 more and more, not just for baseball games, but for updates, discussions, rumors and insight, and I've genuinely become a fan of all the Toronto sports in the process. As much as I can roll my eyes when callers phone in to talk about the Leafs in the middle of July, I would really miss not having The Fan 590 on the dial. After-all, I'm a sports fan.

For Toronto sports fans like myself, Roger Lajoie is best known as a talk show host on The Fan 590, but as one of the busiest guys in sports, he can be found just about everywhere - and in every medium - including television, newspapers and blogs. Roger hosts the OHL's St. Michael's Majors home games and is the play-by-play voice of the Oshawa Generals on Rogers Television during the winter. Throughout the summer, he's the public address announcer at Christie Pits for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Intercounty Baseball League, something he has been doing for the past 25 years. As a North American correspondent for the Reuters News Agency, Roger has covered some of sport's most coveted events such as the Super Bowl, Stanley Cup Finals, World Series, NBA Finals and the NCAA Final Four. Oh, and he just finished a book on Jimmy Devellano of the Detroit Red Wings called, The Road to Hockeytown. I caught up with the Ryerson journalism graduate to learn more about working on The Fan, sports in Toronto, and ask if he had any advice for aspiring sportscasters.