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4:30 p.m. last Wednesday. Two teenage girls are exiting the northbound Dufferin bus in front of Dufferin Mall.

This holiday season, Wal-Mart has graciously kept its Toronto stores open around the clock. To experience the holiday spirit during the stores' extended hours, Torontoist hitched a ride on the Blue Line this week at 3 a.m. to the Wal-Mart at Dufferin Mall.

A longtime staple of the holiday season is a special visit from jolly old St. Nick to the nearest shopping mall or department store. Kids relish the opportunity to tell Santa that they want the latest hot toy, peace on Earth or an official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model air rifle, while retailers hope these gift lists translate into sales. If the establishment has hired their Santa carefully, kids will not need to...

This week, the already-awesome Dufferin Grove Park is absolutely ablaze with awesomeness, with tendrils of wicked cool billowing through its leafy canopies and filling the lungs and hearts of theatre aficionados everywhere. The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival, which runs from June 20-24, is a presentation of five short plays, accompanied by a spectacular organic meal and infused with a spirit of collaboration and comraderie from start to finish.

Every weekday, Torontoist is facing off local memes and blog drama in a tournament-style ladder and you, the reader, decide the outcome. View the full ladder here. Some highlights: Kensington Market turns out the lights on Nuit Blanche (118 - 95): Dizzy from the smell of fish, Nuit Blanche stumbles in this epic battle of nocturnal versus somnambulant. Al Waxman named MVP of Kensington for numerous slam dunks. IllegalSigns.ca revokes Dufferin Grove's permit (109 - 106): In yesterday's closest match, Dufferin Grove's bonfires, farmer's market and cob thing are not enough to tackle IllegalSigns.ca, who points out the gaudiness of the Dufferin Mall across the street to distract the park and score a tie-breaking three pointer with just seconds left on the clock. Today's matches, Region I + II, Quarterfinals:

St. Clair ROW vs. CN Tower Ice
Toronto Islands vs. Jane Jacobs
Condo Boom vs. 416
Anagram Map vs. ROM Crystal

Renovations at Dufferin Mall are underway to “meet the needs of the community it serves.” Dufferin Mall cares about you and your shopping needs and wants to add some zest to the lives of consumers. “Dufferin Mall is re-inventing itself to deliver a youthful and vibrant shopping experience. It will soon sport a trendy look with powerful fashion stores taking the shopping experience at Dufferin Mall to new heights. The mall will transform completely in the next 7 months and will become virtually brand new. It will have a new food court, stores, floors, ceilings & washrooms. If you visit the mall you will see the transformation in the new store facades in the mall.”

7-Do a rain dance. Bring on the rain with a wacky dance and then step outside to cool off. If we're lucky, the rain will do us some good.

If you went home for the holidays, you no doubt brought back at least three times what you took with you. Now, where are you going to put that in your 400 square foot Toronto apartment?