University students, busy families, and Crackberry-addicted workaholics, rejoice! No more take-out! No more factory-made frozen dinners loaded with fat and sodium! No more sad, sad "dinners" of Oreo cookies with gin and Seven-Up. Two businesses have sprouted up to simplify home cooking: SupperSolved and SupperWorks. They create the menus, shop for groceries, clean and prepare the ingredients, and even do the clean up. All you do is visit the location closest to you (SupperSolved......

Near Manulife Financial: Bloor East citizens would like less poo in their public spaces. With condo fever gripping the still-shabby southeast corner of Bloor and Yonge due to the future One Bloor 80-storey tower, the Bloor East Neighbourhood Association (BENA) met Wednesday night at the Rogers Centre (333 Bloor Street East) to discuss how their little stretch of street could be transformed to rival the world-class reputation of Bloor West. BENA, representing ratepayers along......

All summer long, Toronto has been jam-packed with countless cultural festivities, and as the last weekend of the summer begins to dawn on us—with students gearing up for school and vacations coming to an unfortunate end—why not end the summer with some Ukrainian style? This year, what was formerly known as the Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival is being renamed the Toronto Ukrainian Festival and will take place at Harbourfront Centre. From August 31......

One of the pillars of the TTC's plan to trim its budget is to cut some twenty-one "poor performing" bus routes. But what, exactly, is a "poor performing" route? As it turns out, transit whiz Steve Munro claims, it sure isn't what the TTC says it is: "in a flat fare system," he writes, "it is impossible to allocate fare revenue in any way that makes sense and produces meaningful comparisons between routes." There......

If you’d like weekly emails full of Toronto literary listings, sign up at Patchy Squirrel, a new offering from Stuart Ross and Dani Couture. Stuart launches a new collection of poetry, I Cut My Finger (Anvil Press) with Kate Sutherland's All In Together Girls (fiction from Thistledown Press) Sunday, April 22, 8 p.m. at Clintons Tavern (back room), 693 Bloor West. For a monthly overview of the Toronto scene and beyond, Word: Canada’s Magazine for......

Torontoist officially can’t wait for the first home renovation programme to have its interior designer kick open a door to an empty room and scream "This…Is…SPARTAN!" referencing this week’s biggest release, 300. On the topic of 300, we link you to the best review ever featured on the otherwise not-particularly-good Ain’t It Cool News. Neill Cumpston enthuses, "If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, 'I......

When you go through the doors of City Hall, one of the first things you'll probably see (especially if you're headed to the café, library, or washrooms) is "Metropolis" to your immediate right, an expansive "mural" made out of 100 000 nails, their blunt ends jutting out in patterns of concentric circles. And you won't be able to resist running your hand along it, no matter how late you are for your meeting or......

It's happened to all of us before - you pass by something and you think "wait, when did that change?" Like, when did all the Kinko's in Toronto become "FedEx Kinko's"? When did that happen? When did that Coffee Time become the Coffee Tip, and then the Coffee Type, and finally the Dream Steak House? It's just natural - we can't notice everything as it happens, not even when we pass by regularly. I......

Jam packed day today! Torontoist Daily Agenda June 6, 2006 8am - Hearty breakfast at Country Style Donuts (666 Millwood) 9am - Pick up flooring samples from Armstrong Floor Service (666 Spadina Avenue) 10am - Appointment with lawyer Chartered Accountant: Spiegel & Associates (666 Wilson Avenue) 12pm - Lunch with Keyes at Korea House (666 Bloor West) 1pm - Appointment for film work at Accent Entertainment (666 Queen West) 2pm - Coffee with Grassi at......

In this post, Torontoist mistakenly implied that the Yard Sale for the Cure was happening only in the The Beaches/The Beach. It's time to clear up the confusion. Las year the Yard Sale for the Cure held it's inaugural event in the Beaches, but this year it has spread to 28 different places, including Edmonton, Oakville, Lorne Park, Bloor West Village / High Park, Leaside / Victoria Village, Thornhill, The Beaches and Peterborough .......

With all your usual movie news outlets having gone crazy for Sundance, here at Torontoist we’ve gone crazy for C.R.A.Z.Y, Jean-Marc Vallee’s coming-of-age-when-you’re-gay- and-you-think-your-dad-is awesome-but- won’t-be-down-with-that flick, being shown tonight as part of Cinematheque Ontario’s Canada’s Top Ten programme (8:45pm, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas West). The showing is preceded at 6:30pm by a fascinating panel – Pop Culture as History/History as Pop Culture, featuring Atom Egoyan (of Canada’s Top Ten......

Right, Torontoist isn’t going to mess about with today’s Film Friday, because there are more important things to be talking about than what’s on at the multiplex. First! Tristan and Isolde is the cinematic version of the Celtic folklore/Wagner opera, which the trailers have made a big deal about predating Romeo and Juliet, as if that actually meant anything. Eye’s Adam Nayman brings up the interesting note that this was, for years, the dream......

Happy New Year, film fans! Or, perhaps, not. For we’ve slammed like so much booze filled new year vomit upon the tarmac of the post-Christmas lull, in which basically nothing of interest is released in any format. Certainly this week fans of more high brow cinema will have to hang on like those last few drips of chunky bile saliva for Cinematheque Ontario’s winter programme, starting on January 13th, which we’ll probably talk about then,......

Howdy! It’s Christmas time again, that time of year where you’re either so insane with loneliness that you’ll choose to be in a cold dark cinema just to feel like you’re near people, or that you’ve been driven so mad by the constant attention of your family that you’ll choose to be in a cold dark cinema just to feel like you’re alone. So what will you see? First up is Brokeback Mountain, which......

The Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival takes over (you guessed it) Bloor West Village this weekend. They say: This is the Festival's 9th year (it began in 1997) and each time it comes around it continues to get better. Who doesn't like things that get better with each go round? The parade begins tomorrow at 10:15 in High Park, with John Turner as Parade Marshal. Other activities include a 9am Saturday Morning Pancake Breakfast and......

Downtowners had a terrible scare a few week's back. The fruit hut that stood, proud and dilapidated, across from what is arguably Toronto's worst-stocked and worser-run Dominion, was bulldozed.* Thankfully, a newer, less dilapidated hut rose from the ashes only weeks later, thus keeping the point-counterpoint of $3.99 stawberries versus $1.99 strawberries firmly alive. Meanwhile, grocery changes are taking place at varying speeds all across the G.T.A. The much-ballyhooed Kensington Market Zimmerman's/Loblaws coproduction is still......