Happy Family Day! Happy, that is, unless you're part of the seemingly endless parade of business owners, executives, police officers, parents, people who have to work today, cynics, bitter old men, or plain old ne'er-do-wells in general who believe that Family Day is going to ruin life—and, more importantly, the economy—as we know it. Well, buck up, kiddo. It's just not that bad. Just how curmudgeonly do you have to be to focus your......

Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We're especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you've got. BenchesBY DOSHA UntitledBY BENTHAM Friday (Feels Like Monday)BY LEPAGEJP Balloon BunkerBY COLOUR VOID ObliviousBY DENMAR 7evenBY SIRCHARLIE Just Walking #2BY LEPAGEJP untitledBY TORONTOGAL PHOTOS......

The holiday season is a tribute to excess. We gorge ourselves on a lot of fatty food and we fill up on fruitcake. We make sure to drink copious amounts of wine, enjoy our rum and eggnog, sip a snifter of brandy, or even down a nice cup of Manischewitz. Beer, however, often gets the short shrift during the holidays. Some find it too filling for a post-turkey nightcap; others think that beer should......

It might be time to cut back on the brews. Fox News is reporting that old beer fridges, which one in three Canadians keep in their houses, are remarkably inefficient and "contribute significantly" to global warming. The report was commissioned by the federal government, which says something about how much the government cares about your beer-related habits. Denise Young, the researcher who put together the study, suggests that the government provide financial incentives and......

Photo by Greg Clow from Flickr. Yesterday, Torontoist got to go check out what's brewing with the Ontario Craft Brewers at the absolutely gorgeous LCBO that's been built into the old Summerhill-North Toronto CPR station. (Seriously. Go check it out. It's beautiful.) If you haven't heard of the OCB, it's an association of 29 small Ontario breweries dedicated to the craft of beer-making and to providing an alternative to the rather bland Molson-Labatt monopoly......

Each week, Torontoist shows off the most interesting, creative, and cool submissions to our Torontoist Flickr Pool. We're especially partial to photos that show our city in a new light, highlight a recent event, and remind us why we live here. Join the Flickr pool and show us what you've got. ZanzibarBY MOONWIRE SideBY DISCARNATEQUERN UntitledBY TORONTOGAL PHOTOS OutfallBY INVENTOR 77 CastlesBY MECHRISMAN BloorBY K-BEER SupersamplerBY UWAJEDI Balzac's ChandelierBY J.T.R. Beach biteBY CHELSEAGIRL UntitledBY K-BEER......

Photo by kstashuk. Nothing says loving like a cold beer on a hot day. Luckily for us, the good people at The Beer Store decided to open up Fort York to us again this year, allowing us to drink, frolic and be merry in an enclosed and historic setting. In such an environment as this, how could we help but pit four GTA-centric Ontario Craft Brewery beers against each other? To make things a......

Summer: the official season of barbecues, cottages and having a nice cold beer. To honour the finest microbrews in the GTA and Ontario, The Bar Towel is once again asking for the public to vote for the 2007 Golden Tap Awards and have a voice in who should go home with one of the eight coveted awards. The main competition in the GTA categories is the Mill Street Brewery, especially now that they have their......

This week, the biggest news in movies is that Warner Bros. has decided to stop all advance promotional screenings of its films in Canada, in attempt to stem the flow of pirated movies from Canada. Yo ho ho! Unfortunately, they’ve likely decided that Canada is a hotbed of disgusting movie pirates on some pretty wonky data. Though apparently there’s no law against recording movies in a theatre onto a camcorder in Canada, which is kind......

As the weather starts to get lovely, a band name has never seemed more appropriate. The Long Winters are playing a free show tonight in two hours and there are still (apparently) forty tickets left that they can give away. (We originally read about it on Chromewaves but were waiting to hear if there were enough tickets left to let our readers know.) If last October's show at Lee's was any indication, tonight's performance......

On Tuesday, Wireless Toronto (everybody's favourite community wireless group) held its very first Hacknight. In this new year, Wireless Toronto will be doing more than just setting up free wifi in public places; they're starting a series of group tech-project hacknight get-togethers. Beer, wires, routers, cordless drills...you get the idea. Tuesday was the first part of a grander project to build a wifi backpack: "We’re building a wifi backpack, which we’ve affectionately called the WiFi......

Happy December Torontoist readers! The LCBO will start charging an extra 10- or 20-cent deposit on wine and spirit bottles in February in order to encourage recycling. Bottles can be returned to The Beer Store along with your Red Cap empties. Save up enough of them and those bottles can be recycled right back into your hand, chilled and containing a delicious elixer of satisfaction that you are doing your part for the environment. A......

Photograph of Rick Santorum conceding defeat with his family by Gene J. Puskar/AP The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Bostonist discussed two big state issues-- what sort of math constitutes a marriage and what kind of alcohol can be sold in most grocery stores.......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

The big story today is the three dead found on 1he 19th floor of the Delta Chelsea. Police were called in around 4:30 am and discovered the bodies of two men and a woman, all had stab wounds. The floor has been sealed off but the hotel remains open. A shooting of a Scarborough teenager on Friday has led police to lay more than 100 charges on a dozen people in the surrounding area. The......

We trust you all know about Beer Hunter, that delightful Googlemaps mashup that lets you search for sweet, delicious beer. But sometimes what you really need is Canada's other national drink. Yes we're talking about the caffeine and sugar concoction known as Tim Horton's coffee. With this nifty mashup you can find out where the nearest Tim Horton's is, because you simply don't know when you'll have a craving for Timbits. The fine people......

If there's one thing that defines Toronto in the summer besides the sound of gang-related gunplay, it's festivals, and this weekend is a big one. With a bunch of major events going on, it's easy to overlook the smaller celebrations. But when you're finished slamming at Wakestock, sucking 'em back at the Beer Festival, and trying a little Greek at Taste of the Danforth, head down to the Hot and Spicy Food Festival at Harbourfront......

The topic of HOT needs no further explanation. We all know that it’s hotter than hot. Yes, it’s a bazillion degrees with the humidex. Here are some tips to put a temporary hold on sweating your guts out: 1-Hop on the subway and ride it for hours. The TTC is in full swing and MOST subway cars (but not ALL subway cars) are kept cool. Spend your day listening to music and/or reading a book......

Say, hypothetically, you were given $25 a week to buy popcorn and beer. Finding beer is relatively easy, as it's only sold in bars, the Beer Store and LCBO. But popcorn? Besides the free sample-friendly p-corn chain Kernals, and over-priced, canola-oil heavy theatre popcorn, where does one find good popcorn on such a budget? As with most low-end delicacies, the tastiest and most inexpensive dishes can be made right in your own home. Allow Torontoist......

While Cinq-A-Sept is the traditional cocktail hour, Huit-a-Onze is all too often the time dedicated to "running out the door to check if the liquor store is still open." Torontoist knows what it's like to arrive at The Beer Store just as the neon 'OPEN' sign turns off. We've done the late evening drive around the city, and gotten to know 411 operators on a first-name basis while pleading for as many Le CeeBO......

Torontoist has been busy as a beaver (we wish we could think of a more literary allusion than that, but we're a little exhausted) at the IFOA this week. Monday night found us at a rollicking party full of the week's literary stars. Amazonian Zadie Smith held court in one corner of the room, while we demonstrated why handshaking should be outlawed at cocktail parties in front of our crush-of-the-week Charles Montgomery. Beer in one......

Beer in the summer! From douchewhistles to Steam Whistles, Torontoist always has you covered. With respect to the latter, the Steam Whistle brewery is celebrating five years in the biz with a few worthy promotions. Taking a break from our winter selections, Steam Whistle could become the beverage of our summer with their new sustainable beer cup. The bio-plastic cup (pictured) contains no petroleum, is made from 100 per cent renewable resources and takes......

If David Miller hosted a talk show, this week's theme would be "20-minute Make-Overs." Except instead of people who watch television all afternoon, the participants would be Toronto's parks. Miller is urging Torontonians to "join their neighbours for the citywide "target="new">clean-up, which will take place on Friday, April 22 (Earth Day)." Various clean-up bags are available at Beer Stores, Pizza Pizzas and Parks and Recs Community Centres.......

Lakeshore Creek Classic Lager, with it's 5.5% alc/vol and $5.75 per 6-pack price tag, comes to Beer Stores starting April 11. With a capitalist ethos and "Damn Good Beer" tagline, the new beverage arrives to a mixed reaction. With two weeks before the actual drop of the new brew, Torontoist weighs the pro's and con's of the start-up alternative to your favourite Labatt's and Molson's. Pro * Comes only in cans - which can be......