There’s a new comedy club in town called The LOT Stand Up Comedy Club, and it has a red velvet curtain behind the elevated stage and tiny round lightbulbs all around it. “That was the selling point for me,” says comedian Mark DeBonis. “When I saw that [stage], I thought, ‘This is where we’ve gotta do [a comedy club].’ I had never seen anything like that before in Toronto.”
Brioche Dorée, a Parisian-style bakery and café with over 500 restaurants worldwide, is opening its first downtown location this fall at 650 King West, near Bathurst. The chain currently has over 35 locations in North America, many of which are found in airports (Torontonians who want to indulge, currently, have to head to Pearson). Brioche Dorée specializes in exotic French offerings such as “croissants,” “crêpes” and “brioche.”
Great Lakes bills itself as Toronto’s original craft brewery, and this year it’s doubling down on the nostalgia by selling a commemorative 25th anniversary beer every season. The second beer in the series is a Belgian saison, which was released this week.
Brother and sister Jacquie and Stephen Neville teamed up with Liam Jaeger back while they were studying classical music at the University of Ottawa. The ensuing basement jam sessions transformed into dark, danceable and loud rock with the chemistry of a trio that has been playing together for decades.
Although Kensington Market has just suffered the loss of the beloved Agave y Aguacate, Mexican food aficionados can stop their fretting. Come September, Seven Lives is poised to open at the El Gordo food court at 214 Augusta, and it will be keeping its focus trained on seafood tacos and street-style eats.
“Buying a basic” in fashion speak means going far beyond the average crew neck T-shirt or neutral-coloured underwear from Haines. Most often, the phrase “it’s practically a basic” is used to justify the purchase of any new wardrobe piece that could be worn more than once.
Going to this year’s Buskerfest? Well, as this ’50s clown reminds us, beneath the make-up and behind the smile is just a person who wishes for the world. And remember: you’re laughing with them, not at them.
When parents stop hovering, children learn to fly
Everything from dog-proofing your floors to finishing a kitchen the right way
In an era of sets that last two hours (if that), Bruce Springsteen continues to stand out as a bridge to the past. You know you’re getting value with The Boss and his E Street Band — a three-hour, high-energy performance that will have the huge crowd at the Rogers Centre out of their seats so they can do a little dancing in the dark.
A luxury coffee shop concept from Italy known as C House Lounge Café is opening at least two locations in Toronto this year, one in Yorkville, which set to open this summer, and another on Queen West, which is looking to open by fall. The Yorkville location will mark the franchise’s first foray into Canada.
Though an active and respected player in the Canadian acting scene for over 50 years, William B. Davis is best known for his role as the “Cigarette Smoking Man” on The X-Files, the mysterious, chain-smoking arch-nemesis of Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny). Die-hard local X-Philes will get a chance to get up-close-and-personal with Davis at this weekend’s Fan Expo.
