Reading a home is something of an art form. Keith Matthews (not his real name) gestures at a large brick home on a snowy neighbourhood street with the blinds pulled partially back. “You can tell no one’s in there,” he says. “You see the living room on the right-hand side, the kitchen area on this … Continued
While the Gwyneth Paltrow touch may not exactly hold the powers of the Oprah touch, getting a mention in GOOP — Paltrow’s lifestyle-advice newsletter focused on achieving La Belle Vie — ain’t bad. So when Toronto mitten designer Anna-Maria Mountfort was recently mentioned in it, she took it as rather good news.
Canada’s “cheap and chic” clothing line, Joe Fresh, is now going international, starting with a test-drive in Manhattan (and then who knows? Maybe Berlin.) Loblaw President Allan Leighton confirmed Wednesday that Loblaw will test its in-house clothing brand in the competitive U.S. market by opening its first store in Manhattan this fall, the National Post reports.
We’re pretty sure that April hasn’t arrived, so we were surprised to find what seemed to be a prank making its rounds on the webosphere today: a story about Rogers Cable’s new “Rotisserie Channel,” starting Feb. 28. Well, it’s not a prank, and the channel features (you guessed it) chickens roasting on a spit over the fire, 24/7 (for ambience, of course).
Could one of Canada’s biggest music retailers be going the way of Sam the Record Man? After slumping sales over the holiday season, the UK-based HMV Group is considering “a full or partial exit from the Canadian market,” Sky News reports.
Clobbering the two best Jeopardy! contestants out there is no small feat. But last week, during one final Jeopardy! round, Watson — the artificial intelligence IBM computer that won a three-day tournament against Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — answered incorrectly. The machine answered "Toronto" for a clue under the heading "U.S. Cities." So was this some sort of snide remark? Was Watson intentionally trying to knock our nationally sensitive identity? Or is the machine’s gaffe a sign that with the right practice — and a good dose of Canadian trivia — this superhuman, high-tech machine can be beat?
Following New York Fashion Week comes London Fashion Week, one of the big four catwalk fixtures alongside Paris, New York and Milan. London is best known for showcasing cutting edge talent and avant-garde trends, as well as blending up-and-coming designers with established names. Participating this year are three emerging and exciting Canadian designers: Erdem, Mark Fast and Toronto’s own Todd Lynn. And luckily, their gorgeous garments are available to purchase right here in Toronto.
Pregnant women, alcohol abstainers and under-aged diners rejoice! No longer shall you be slated into the same, lackluster beverage categories when you go out to eat: fresh, tasty non-alcoholic options that don’t contain alarmingly high levels of sugar or aspartame are sprouting up citywide in the form of mocktails, The Globe reports.
When Little Italy’s American Apparel shut its doors a few weeks ago, it became Toronto’s second AA store to close (four years ago, the Church Street location packed up due to high rent prices and less-than-satisfactory business). So could this mean AA stores in Toronto are disappearing faster than the clothes on its ad models? Well, yes and no.
Get ready to start eating lots of sardines. According to an American Association for the Advancement of Science panel meeting, predatory fish like tuna and grouper will be virtually non-existent by 2050, while smaller fish like sardines and anchovies will be in abundance. The news isn’t all bad: at least something’s going to survive the apocalypse of 2012.
Now that the weather is getting milder, it’s time to think about spring fashion. One of the biggest trends found on New York runways for spring 2011 hits pretty close to home: the Canadian Tuxedo. Don’t worry, this isn’t the one we’ve seen John Mellencamp sporting back in the early 90s.
Torontonians will soon understand what the big deal is about U.S. discount department store Marshalls — and apparently there are a lot of them. Deals, that is. The first three Canadian stores are set to open in the GTA on March 17. The stores are coming to Leaside, Scarborough and Woodbridge, and will feature brand name clothing at discount prices, kind of like our good Canadian friend, Winners.
