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Vandalist: Now Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts

A glimmer of light in the bleakest of months.

BY: Jay Wall and Laura Huddart LOCATION: Harbord and Lippincott PHOTO BY: Martin Reis FIELD NOTES: Even at its best, February isn’t the most cheerful of months. It’s all too easy to let the winter blues get us down, but this creative redecoration of illegal ad space is just what we need to perk us [...]

Being Strategic and Voting

Photo by shutternewbie  from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Franz Hartmann is the executive director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance. In a series of posts leading up to the municipal election this fall, he’ll be discussing environmental priorities for the city and assessing the leading candidates’ environmental policies. Three-way elections like Toronto’s mayoral race always [...]

We’ll Still Be Green on October 26

Photo by StudioGabe from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Franz Hartmann is the executive director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance. In a series of posts leading up to the municipal election this fall, he’ll be discussing environmental priorities for the city and assessing the leading candidates’ environmental policies. Unless bizarre things happen on election day, Toronto [...]

Indie Coffee Passport Puts Neighbourhood Cafés on the Map

Coffee-making at Crafted by Te Aro (135 Ossington). With a Tim Hortons popping up in espresso-centric Little Italy and Starbucks sneaking its way into the Junction, neighbourhood coffee shops are in need of recognition just to stay in the brewing business. With that reality in mind, two coffee enthusiasts—who were previously uninvolved in the food [...]

Snappy Answers: She Drinks Coffee, She Drinks Tea

Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. Hi, I’m a stressed-out U. of T. student in the middle of midterms, and I’m always looking for good places to study. I’m sick of campus and tired of Starbucks, which is usually overcrowded (not to mention overrated, overpriced [...]

The Great Torontoist Challenge: White Tea Edition

Photo by chef@isimmer from Flickr. The least processed form of tea, white tea is considered to be the healthiest of the family, with more catechin than any of its brothers and sisters. And, what with everyone and their pet giraffe on a bit of a tea kick lately, we thought we’d go for the top [...]