Hannah Hart is the 24-year-old mastermind behind YouTube comedy sensation My Drunk Kitchen, which has garnered Hart’s YouTube channel more than 7 million views since its first upload in March. We caught up with the San Francisco transplant at her current home in NYC to discuss her impressions of our own fine town after a [...]

Construction underway at the first Beer Boutique. Photo by Brendan Ross/Torontoist. The Beer Store, Ontario’s largest beer retailer, is expanding into the self-serve market with a new store format to be debuted in Toronto this summer—a move smaller Ontario brewers say might boost interest in local beer, although the store’s products will remain the same. [...]

The offending Smash Bomb Atomic IPA proposed packaging. Goofy? Sure. But socially irresponsible? Late last year, the Buffalo News ran an article about how Ontarians, including a big chunk of Torontonians, were trekking down the QEW by the busload, crossing over into New York State not for NFL action or deals at factory outlets, but [...]

An LCBO employee tests out the first self-serve liquor store in Metropolitan Toronto. The Telegram, February 22, 1969. The provincial government has recently mused about loosening Ontario’s liquor laws to allow greater mobility at outdoor festivals and other special events for those with a beverage in hand. We shouldn’t expect any rapid changes though—alterations to [...]

Strolling though the indoor garden at The Green Living Show. Torontoist visited The Green Living Show this weekend, and among the organic food sampling and catching glimpses of Colin Firth, here are eight things we really loved—and one we weren’t really over the moon about. We Loved… E-Bikes Quite a few of these convenient little [...]

Photo by Paul~~ from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The success of and interest in Toronto breweries has taken off as the push to eat and buy local food has branched into the beverage industry. With big names like Steam Whistle and Mill St. battling it out with emerging brands like Great Lakes, the industry is [...]

Photo by kalleboo. For a while, it looked like the furry little critters inhabiting Toronto’s waste-addled sidewalks and gutters were the only ones getting a break this week. It’s bad enough to have the trash piling up in the city’s green spaces, themselves untended for the duration of CUPE local 79 and 416′s labour action; [...]

It’s hard to argue with Slate‘s declaration that the Random House Dictionary contains the best definition of velleity: 1. volition in its weakest form2. a mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain it. That is precisely the definition that comes to mind when gazing at this sign guarding a driveway leading to the LCBO [...]

Ontario will spend more than $2 billion this year to improve provincial roads and highways, widening the QEW and 401 and repairing over 450 kilometres of highway, as well as building and repairing over 100 bridges. In related transit news, the government is spending $5 million on a commission that will study exactly how much [...]