Photo by ethervision from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. We wanted to start off this challenge with a proclamation, in Japanese, of our deep love of sushi. Unfortunately, all the online translators we tried just came up with a bunch of squares. We’re pretty sure the Japanese language has evolved past this, so we’re going to [...]

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, the fourth volume in the popular comic book series by Brian Lee O’Malley, hits stores across the city today. We feel confident in saying that there has never been a person in the history of time who hasn’t liked this series. The fact that Scott Pilgrim is set entirely in [...]

Celebrating its fifth anniversary, the Toronto Japanese Short Film Festival opens its doors tonight and runs until Sunday at the Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue). The theme of this year’s festival is “Life is short, work hard!” and is explored throughout the festival’s programming, beginning tonight at 6.30 p.m. with the Momo (Japanese for [...]

“That’s something you won’t find at Loblaws,” said Frank Yip, as he gestured toward the delectable-looking barbecued meats hanging behind glass at the deli. He’s right; though a staple in Chinatown, it’s a tantalizing display that might be unfamiliar to Toronto citizens used to a more typical grocery shopping experience. It’s also the perfect welcome [...]

For the long-suffering fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the year 1967 has become synonymous with past glories and forty years of failure. On Saturday night, the surviving members of the last Leaf team to win the Stanley Cup were reunited at the Air Canada Centre for the first time since that storied championship. An [...]

It’s tough to get excited about Kikkoman soy sauce bottles. They’ve been around since 1961, and you find them at every sushi dive in the city. But, at one time, they were the height of tableware innovation, and for that reason, they’re included in a new show at the Design Exchange: Japanese Design Today 100. [...]

Some residents of the Beach have threatened a legal injunction to stop a local church from housing 12 homeless people one night a week. Merry Christmas to you too, folks… Investigators say that the fire which destroyed Sassafraz restaurant in Yorkville was a caused by a cooking accident. Local sushi restaurant owners are nodding smugly. [...]

The Black Lips and Be Your Own Pet played The Horseshoe last night, and it was one of the most physical and fluid-exchanging shows in quite awhile — both on and off stage. In no particular order, and without distinguishing which band did what, here are some of the goodies: boy-on-boy action, spitting and swallowing [...]

Everyone’s all excited over the reopening of New Generation Sushi, and that’s all very well and good, but it seems no one has been paying much attention to the odd goings on, sign-wise, across the street at Sushi Time: First of all, it seems to have been renamed either J-Time or I-Time – it’s hard [...]

Don’t have plans for Mother’s Day? Why don’t you take your mother to the newly reopened New Generation Sushi. Torontoist was sad to see the Annex stalwart get gutted by fire in December but we’re happy to see NGS back on its feet. All we have to say is Kampai (that’s cheers in Japanese).

Ban there, done that. In lieu of the City of Chicago’s ban on foie gras, Toronto and our various bans seem a lot less authoritarian. In fact, we would venture to say our city is substantially lagging in the ban game. To make ourselves feel better about this, Torontoist has put together a list of [...]

The Star reports that the TTC and eight other crime enforcement agencies have made another arrest in a huge scam involving fake TTC tokens. Mississauga mayor/overlord (overlady?) Hazel McCallion is indestructible. Her car hits a light pole and not only does she escape serious injury she also doesn’t miss a beat and keeps on working. [...]