Extra, Extra: Beer, Charts, and Magic Carpets

By Steve Kupferman

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

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• Toronto has a new beer store, and, thankfully, it’s not a Beer Store. Bellwoods Brewery, already popular as a brewpub, is now selling bottles out of a new retail store adjacent to the restaurant.
• Matt Elliott explains why Mayor Rob Ford’s favourite budget chart is misleading.
• Toronto will be the first city in the world to witness a new stage production of Disney’s Aladdin, prior to its Broadway debut. Is this actually kind of exciting? Maybe?

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