Looking for something to ease the transition from the weekend to the daily grind this Monday? Then this video game by Patrick T. Lo is probably not for you. Unless, that is, you’ve been longing for a video game that recreates the daily grind, TTC trips included.
Car-free zones are starting to get some attention in Toronto as the city looks at creative ways of implementing them.
[Toronto Star]
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This month, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair celebrates a whopping 89 years of family friendly, farm-oriented fun. Here are the top five reasons why a visit to the Royal Fair is a worthwhile endeavour for rural folk and city slickers alike.
Nov. 21 has been announced as the new date for the “physical retail release” of Metric‘s remix album, Fantasies Flashbacks (proceeds donated to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health). According to an announcement on the band’s website, the album was supposed to be released a couple weeks back, but has to be pushed back due to the fire at the Sony/PIAS Distribution warehouse in London following the recent riots. That’s the bad news.
Ben Sherman has landed in Toronto. The iconic British brand has set up its first free-standing store in Canada on Queen Street West. Since 1963, the menswear brand has been famed for suiting up musicians and other dapper-dressed gentleman, as well as being the first to produce the beloved Oxford button-down shirt.
A delicious stand-up sipper. I usually don’t look to Australia for Riesling, but this wine surprised me. Straw colour; developing petrol notes on the nose; lime and grapefruit with a honeyed note; slight spritz on the palate with a sweet and sour flavour; initially off-dry and then dries out on the finish with lively citrus acidity. Food match: pork chop, Thai dishes.
Committee members at City Hall voted unanimously for an environmental assessment that could pave the way for permanent bike-only tracks along Richmond and Adelaide streets by 2013.
[Globe and Mail]
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And now for something completely different. Last week we brought you The Danger Bees, a band very much bounded inside the traditionalist songwriting and singular vision of David Macmichael. Here at the other end of the spectrum lies Pidgin, a local five-piece act that relies on intuitive composition and operates almost completely outside of the realm of language and established genre constraints.
This kind of came out of nowhere, but the ROM has a new executive chef: Corbin Tomaszeski. The announcement was made in a press release sent out this morning. In addition to his 20-plus years of experience as a chef (his latest gig was as executive chef at Holts Café), Tomaszeski is also known at a television personality from shows like Dinner Party Wars and Restaurant Makeover.
Front Street may soon be more pedestrian friendly. A proposal is being examined by the city to expand pedestrian pathways and reduce the number of car lanes in the area around Union Station.
[The Grid]
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Can you trust someone who decides to spend so much more than he can raise trying to get elected?
My boyfriend’s moving in and there’s going to be trouble
