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Monday, May 31, 2010

Fashion & Style

Street Style: at Anime North 2010

10 years later, Ed is still the ice cream king

The Broken Social Scene movie: a review of This Movie Is Broken

42 beers tested in battle of the craft breweries

Morning Brew: Quit Facebook Day, floating bed and breakfast opens on Waterfront, shift in plans to integrate rather than expand bike lanes, Boardwalk Pub monopoly extension questioned, Netanyahu in Toronto

Radar: Compassion in Motion, Eddie Izzard at Massey Hall, Diana Ross at Roy Thomson Hall, Urban Tantra Workshop

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Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Rogers Studios tour a Doors Open dead end

The best restaurant on Eastern Avenue

Toronto Street Busker Profile: Shibaten

Sunday Supplement: more Michael Bryant, the TTC passenger audit, G20 summit blues, "summer" arrives in Toronto, the week in numbers

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Motorist's annoyance

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Beneath the St. Marys Cement Silos in the Junction

Toronto Patio Guide: The Financial District

A prized find for mid-century modern design

Morning Brew: feces squirting scam, first G20 arrest, Smitherman reveals transportation plan, what else could $1 billion buy?, driver sued by passenger who jumped out of car

Weekend Radar: Doors Open Toronto, Bells on Bloor, Sushi for Two, Drummers for Darfur, desiFEST, Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market, Blackout Party, Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City, Inside Out Film Festival Closing Gala

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Toronto Skyline at Dusk

Friday, May 28, 2010

Zeus, Matt Murphy & Danielle Duval at the Mod Club

The Toronto Railway Heritage Centre

Toronto Patio Guide: Roncesvalles

Is one of these Toronto cafes the next Starbucks?

Morning Brew: iPad launches in Canada, chicken pox in a prenatal class, elderly man arrested after shootout, shortage of road paint may affect road work, Miller scolds feds on G20 security costs

Radar: Toronto Vegetarian Association's Compassion Week, Pin Up Party Down with Worn Fashion Journal, Pop Lobster, 80s Fest at the Fox Theatre, MentalHealthCamp Toronto, Neighbourhood Watch

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Toronto through the eyes of George Smitherman

Toronto Patio Guide: Little Italy

Where to blow serious coin on seafood

LCD Soundsystem heats up the Kool Haus

The Worldwide Short Film Festival

Morning Brew: Toronto Police purchase sound cannons for G20 crowd control, billionaire's fence too high, unsecured Wi-Fi networks and child porn, Beach home rebuild contested, only 28% of Torontonians got H1N1 shot

Radar: Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City, Hope House After Party, Pitter Patter Music Festival, God Loves Hair Book Launch, dance Immersion's Annual Showcase, Full Moon Flash Mob

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enjoying the weather

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Michael Bryant walks, the cycling community rides, and a bad taste lingers

New Ossington bar feels a bit Club District

Why U of T's decision to close during the G20 is a mistake

Hot Ticket: Pitter Patter Music Festival, The Avett Brothers, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Born Ruffians, Zeus, The Weakerthans & Bahamas, ADULT, $100

Morning Brew: record-breaking weather, barbecue explosion, plane crash in Markham, ongoing Pride festival controversy, security costs for G8 and G20 soar

Radar: Will Munro Memorial/Party, TIFF Student Film Showcase, Toronto the Good, Inside Out's Local Heroes Party, Stitch, Bollywood in the Square

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This might sting a bit

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Charges dropped in Michael Bryant case

Fashion & Style

Street Style: at the beach

Doors Open Toronto 2010

Audio & Video: Bad Tits, Great Lake Swimmers, The Balconies, Jane Siberry, D-Sisive & King Reign, The Sadies, Born Ruffians

Morning Brew: Another major Queen West fire, University of Toronto to close for G20, TTC bus driver attacked with fireworks, Amtrak train twice unlucky, campground beating results in death, grisly discoveries in lake and up in cottage country

Radar: Juventus vs. Fiorentina, Inside the Musician's Studio with Woodhands, LCD Soundsystem Afterparty, Keeping An Eye on Journalism, CATS

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Nostalgia Tripping: Victoria Day in Toronto

Toronto through the eyes of Shawn Micallef

Victoria Day 2010

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: West Queen West

Poutine champ eats 13 pounds in 10 minutes

The circus arrives in Toronto

Is this the new Queen of Toronto gelato?

The YWCA Elm Centre to provide housing for the most vulnerable Toronto residents

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In need of a makeover

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: King East

Toronto's newest smoke shop/cafe

The Found Footage Festival hits Toronto

Empty bowls help feed Toronto Aboriginal Community

Morning Brew: Pride parade bans group from participating, charges laid in staged collision on the 400, gridlock expected throughout the summer, Bay Station closed for long weekend, all night booze service proposed for Nuit Blanche

Weekend Radar: Smoke's Poutinerie World Poutine Eating Championship, Agamemnon, Louie Palu: Cage Call, Worldwide Extradition Protest for Marc Emery, We Are Photographers?, Glenn Nuotio and Maylee Todd at the Bread and Circus, Found Footage Festival

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Pirates Of Lake Ontario

Friday, May 21, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: The Annex

The Toronto Brickworks remembered

SportsConnectTO brings together major Toronto sports teams and their fans to talk Toronto sports

Fashion & Style

Street Style: neon, bicycles and bows

TTC Busker Profile: Ruslan Nebesov

Morning Brew: Moving company charged with extortion, 11 charged with alleged insurance fraud, boat licensing problems, TDSB's art show, mixed martial arts protest, and happy Victoria Day long weekend

Radar: Dance Dance Evolution, Hidden in Plain Cite at the Inside Out Film Festival, Mid-August Lunch, Edumacation, We Are Wild, Up and Atom, Intangible, Mamma's Boy, Larger Than Life

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Smoking Positively Prohibited

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: Ossington and Dundas West

Drake Hotel to open ice cream shop

Inside Toronto's first automated pay toilet

Is Yung Sing Pastry Shop going Deadpool?

Mesh Conference 2010 highlights

Morning Brew: two airlines apply to fly out of island airport, first public pay toilet opens, CN Tower to close for G20, OMB approves controversial view-killing condo towers, Toronto Board of Trade report on transit

Radar: Inside Out Film Festival, Invisible Cities: An Urban Biodiversity Conference, Spin by Evalyn Parry, TOK: Writing the New Toronto, The Gleaning Screening for Not Far From the Tree, Lydia Lunch's Sick With Desire

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A Globalized World

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: The Danforth

Fauxreel hacks Toronto billboards, wants to sell you plastic babies

Covenant slays at The Mod Club

An Ethiopian lunch deal on College St.

Toronto is getting more sharrows, but do they actually protect cyclists?

Hot Ticket: LCD Soundsystem, Xavier Rudd, The Sadies, Midlake & Jason Lytle, Shad, Fyfe Dangerfield

Morning Brew: Mink Mile project gets $4.5M more, pro sports doctor faces slew of charges, suspect in brutal homicide turns himself in, mayoral candidates spar on CP24, Durham cracks down on drugs at school, MTCC gets hat tip for top quality

Radar: Videograms of a Revolution, ArtStars One Year Anniversary, 9 Parts of Desire, Dundas Street West Streetscape Walk, Solid Colour at Launch Projects

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: Kensington Market

George Smitherman stops by 52 McCaul for a town hall, but keeps a lid on detailed policies

Ole! Late night Mexican cantina opens in Toronto

Audio & Video: The Weakerthans, The Junction, Ohbijou, Tokyo Police Club, The Hoa Hoa's, D-Sisive

Morning Brew: King Square in Markham to be largest Asian mall in North America, $1B in unpaid traffic fines, details about 15-year old shooting victim emerge, TDSB set to show off art collection, beware the rallying anarchist militants

Radar: Art Battle 6, Stroll Book Launch, Long Pigs, Drink and Destroy: Color Magazine Launch Party, Rally to Support 3-Foot Passing Law

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Tommy Thompson Park // 05

Monday, May 17, 2010

Nostalgia Tripping: remembering Regent Park

Toronto Patio Guide: Liberty Village

The secret ice cream shop

Morning Brew: fake machine gun seized outside Eaton Centre, fighting graffiti with Facebook, Rogers being sued for privacy breach and accused of home-wrecking, it's OK to cheat on Toronto, mystery of the Kingston Road tulip patch solved

Radar: Dime Store Novels, Unique Lives and Experiences: Sir Sidney Poitier, Celebrating 25 Years of Peter Gzowski's Literacy Legacy, Micah Lexier: I'm Thinking of a Number, Two Door Cinema Club

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Stormy Saturday

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: Church Street

What happens when a streetcar becomes an art gallery?

Yonge-Eglinton Square gets its pillow fight swan song

Camp out on Dundas West

How the Toronto PATH got mapped

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Toronto Underground Cinema opens

Lansdowne smokestack won't be saved

Toronto knitters attempt to break world record

Better Ballots honours democracy by opening its mayoral debate to outsider candidates

Evergreen Brick Works is finally opening to the public

Morning Brew: "green" con artists, Smitherman urges City to rethink arena plans for Lower Don Lands, Markham nixes plan to protect foodbelt, Paula Fletcher's errant vote a good thing for cyclists, Gardiner closed for maintenance

Weekend Radar: Instinct, CONTACT Photography Festival, Incongruous Quarterly Spring Readings, Spring Chef's Farmers Market, 3rd Annual Roncesvalles Area Yard Sale, Jim Henson Tribute, Words Towards a Better Toronto

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No one cares about you...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: Leslieville

Mobilicity to launch in Toronto tomorrow

New TIFF Bell Lightbox opening in September

CCTVs installed downtown for G20

TTC Busker Profile: Dwight Belgrove

Scandinavian design on Queen

The Inside Out Festival turns 20

Morning Brew: subway pervert sought, no break on liquor prices, parents urged to find alternative daycares during G20, major hard drug bust tied to Iran, job site safety blitz reveals widespread problems, mentally ill man beaten by police

Radar: The Clothing Show, La Sangouine, Heavy Pettying, CONTACT Photography Festival, Hot Mess Magazine Launch, Ryerson University Film Festival

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Lightpainting Series - Jon Todd, 2009

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: Parkdale

Toronto Blue Jays drop TSN to broadcast exclusively on Rogers Sportsnet

Best of Toronto

The Best Green Wedding Services in Toronto

Sexy Maids in Toronto

Late Night in the Bedroom Episode 9

Morning Brew: University Avenue bike lane proposal killed by voting error, dedicated GO bus lanes on the DVP, TTC bus driver charged with DUI, holiday shopping decision deferred to the fall, back taxes for City employees, go Habs!

Radar: We're Funny That Way Comedy Festival, the Afterword Reading Society Wrap with Colum McCann, 4th Annual June Callwood Lecture, Platform No. 1, Isolated Incidents, Where's My Money?

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Sam the Record Man, 2008

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Toronto Patio Guide: The Distillery District

Early liquor serving hours during FIFA World Cup approved by city council

Habitat for Humanity mayoral debate delivers predictable jabs at the expense of housing policies

Toronto's new, secret yoga society

Liberty Village gets its cheese store

Hot Ticket: Sage Francis, Blue Fog Revue, The Hoa Hoa's & Planet Creature, Matthew Barber, Them Crooked Vultures, Two Door Cinema Club & more

Morning Brew: Bixi bike sharing in Toronto, Build Toronto projects revealed, OpenFile launches, racial discrimination in taxi industry, break and enter suspect nabbed, shortage of neurosurgeons costing taxpayers

Radar: The Thousandth Tower, Zoom Student Film Festival, Press Pass, Dream Guardians: the Blockhead Universe, Fetzer Great Beginnings Appetizer Challenge

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Motion Junction, 2009

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

City Council approves Bixi bike sharing program

Toronto Patio Guide: The Beaches

Jays move home series to Philadelphia to avoid G20 security woes

Yonge & Eglinton gets a little more French

Audio & Video: Born Ruffians, Jason Collett, Daniel Romano, Teenage Kicks, Forest City Lovers, Metz, The Darcys, Zeus, & more

Morning Brew: Toronto police recording encounters, city considers ending beach restaurant monopoly, Rob Ford apologizes for comments about gays and AIDS, SIU accuses Julian Fantino of misconduct, 4000 tickets issued for driving and using mobile devices

Radar: Joey Comeau in Conversation with Ryan North, Zimoun, Insomniac Press Spring Launch, CanStage presents the List, Dinosaur Eggs and Babies

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The de-construction of a TLR camera by Richelle Forsey at the TLR Club's CONTACT show

Monday, May 10, 2010

TTC wants streetcar riders to "Meet Your New Ride"

Are east-enders smarter than west-enders? The rich smarter than the poor?

Fashion & Style

Street Style: at the 99 Cents CONTACT Launch Party

Where to eat snails, oxtail and Peking Duck in Chinatown

Morning Brew: Secret parking ticket exemptions book, electronics recycling failures, teachers taking up Catholicism to find work, bankers working from home to avoid G20, major sewer pipe bypass underway

Radar: Trampoline Hall, Sketch Wars, Salut Iron Chef Duel, CanStage Festival of Ideas and Creation, Support Women and the Environment in the Congo

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

In Photos: blogTO's 99 Cents CONTACT launch party

A trip to Chef Michael Stadtlander's Eigensinn Farm

Nostalgia Tripping: Allan Gardens

A commute you can love

A live exorcism and more at Rue Morgue's Black 100

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Strong winds wreaking havoc in Toronto

Cheap noodles and subs in Chinatown

Hot Docs announces 2010 award winners

Female riders challenge the archaic concept of the "bitch seat"

St. Lawrence Market North building designs are unveiled

Morning Brew: no federal funding for Pride 2010, Mariam Makhniashvili's father reportedly taken into custody, James Chatto and Toronto Life part ways, our city's lack of urban planning, Toronto Sun auto-affection

Weekend Radar: CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Salut Wine and Food Festival, United We Rock! The Concert for Human Rights, Spring Bird Festival, Chronologic Dance Party, Broken Social Scene Play Four In-Stores

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Doughnuts, Miami FL (2002)

Friday, May 7, 2010

iPad available in Canada May 28

99 Cents Exhibit Preview

Pay what you can sandwiches in Kensington

Heaping portions of Mediterranean fusion at Church and Wellesley

CONTACT 2010: Congo on the Wire by Finbarr O'Reilly, Thru the Roots group show, and Cross Section by OCAD third-year students

Gumball 3000 Rally in Toronto

Morning Brew: Early boozing during FIFA World Cup?, Pentagon bars reporters from Omar Khadr case, Wynne warns Miller, Gumball 3000 racer's car impounded, downtown patios to close for weeks leading up to G20

Radar: Contact Photography Festival, Museum Dances, Critical Mass: Robin Givhan, Caught Slippin', Dominion Launch, BookThugs

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Rubble backdrop, 'Amarte es mi Pecado' set

Thursday, May 6, 2010

AGO to mount Julian Schnabel exhibition

Trinity Bellwoods Park no longer designated a G20 protest site

Fashion & Style

Street Style: hats, glasses and a stolen purse

Dear Giorgio, my Toronto includes graffiti

Blossington's new bar and live music venue

Morning Brew: new TTC headquarters proposed, Smitherman vs. Ford in first mayoral debate, Canada Post mailbox overflows, wind turbines in schoolyards, pessimism about Toronto's future, man dies while fleeing police

Radar: CONTACT Photography Festival, Kenk Book Launch, James Sturm at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Making Media Public, the Boom Show, Slow Pitch

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Public pay toilets coming to Toronto

CouchSurfing gives those without fear of social awkwardness an alternative to hotels and hostels

Cafe and gallery collide in Parkdale

Hot Ticket: Stars, Massive Attack, Man Man, Shout Out Louds, a-ha, Delhi 2 Dublin, Youth Crime & more

The Spadina Bus touches down at the Orbit Room

Morning Brew: Rocco Rossi wants subway expansion, crocodile on the loose, massive gang sweep, Loblaw to expand pharmacy services, TTC bus drivers: the good and the bad

Radar: Lulaworld 2010, Nelson Henricks, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Serenades in the Square: Yvette Tollar, How to Eat a Peach Workshop

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Street Elephant Cola, Age 24

The Wilderness of Manitoba share details of their forthcoming LP

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Urban Surrealism in Toronto

A new bar opens in Leslieville

Morning Brew: Torstar bids on Canwest newspapers, iPad not cool in Hipsterville, McGuinty the back-stabber bumper stickers, toddler killed on driveway, the fate of an historic smokestack on Lansdowne

Radar: Glitch Mob, Tomboyfriend's Don't Go to School, Toronto Reference Library's Asian Heritage Event, Canadian Opera Company Free Concert Series, Giselle

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Barbara Kruger installation, AGO, Toronto

Monday, May 3, 2010

The Tale of a Town - Queen West

Angels on the TTC, gourmet food galore at the Eaton Centre, escaping to the Islands, and Thunder Run!

Pug Awards voting now open

Fashion & Style

Ashley Rowe splatter tees hit Ossington

International ramen giant opens shop on Spadina

Morning Brew: Marijuana marcher falls from tree, City's high mileage payouts, TTC bike racks on buses underused, Caledon car crash reveals murder victim

Radar: Panty Schmooze 2010, Frankenstein, Critical Mass: Paul Goldberger, Rower's Pub Reading Series, Potluck Festival

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An Unapologetic Booty Shot

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Toronto through the eyes of Guy Maddin

Nostalgia Tripping: The William Reynolds Block (a.k.a. the building at Gould and Yonge that just lost a wall)

From stock broker to gallery owner, what a difference a year makes

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CN Tower and Streamers

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Will the City's heritage laws save Glen Road?

Brushstrokes and chainsaws collide at Art Battle 5

The bakery that's also a social enterprise

Morning Brew: good news from the TTC, Toronto the backward, 12th annual Toronto Global Marijuana March, councillors ordered to return free metropasses, the Bloor St. makeover mess

Weekend Radar: CONTACT Photography Festival, the Final Monkey Toast, Tale of a Town, Free Films at the NFB, Spring Wedding Show, Waiting for the Parade, Jane's Walk: Riverside, Fix Your Bike Day, Toronto Kickball Inaugural

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