Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon. Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. Hey Snappy, My partner and I are about to begin renovation on a house we just bought. We are going to get new floors, a new kitchen, a new bathroom, and new appliances. Although "new" in this situation is good, it means, by definition, that there is old. And a lot of it. We want as little of the......

Last night, while out for a stroll, Torontoist stumbled upon a brand-new, two-story bookstore just east of Brunswick. It was rather late at night, yet the line-up at the cash register was still over twenty people deep. Lo and behold, it’s the newest location for one of the city’s finest used bookstores, BMV Books. You may recall it was announced this past summer that a new location was being built in the Annex, and yesterday......

Funny thing happened after reading about Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel's acclaimed best-selling memoir that recounts her experiences with depression: I tried buying it. A trip to Indigo produced nothing, and the in-store computers revealed that no location in the city had a copy. That’s right: nothing at any Indigo, Chapters, Coles, or World’s Biggest Book Store. What’s odder than the fact that a book translated into 20 different languages isn’t readily available at any of......