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Our favourite pop-up mall, aka the One of a Kind Show, is back in action this week, offering seasonal goods to go with the seasonal change. Despite the recessionary pall, organizers' spirits were high, and though preliminary attendance figures were not available they were optimistic about the show's prospects. Craft sales (both the raw materials and the finished products) tend to swell in tough economic times, so the odds seem happily in OOAK's favour.

Today’s opening of the One of a Kind Show and Sale marks the unofficial kick-off of the holiday shopping season. We are officially in binge territory here: the exhibition hall takes ten minutes to walk from end to end and is stuffed to the rafters with every imaginable kind of artisan. It’s the ultimate in one-stop shopping for the indie set. As you’d expect, a wander through the stalls yields a mix of the fantastic and the just plain weird. The show is juried, which keeps the overall quality of the work pleasingly high, and we found lots of eminently covet-worthy things.

Heads up on the hands-down coolest things at the Interior Design Show: most of them spring from our own backyard.

A project by architect Johnson Chou and distributor Sound Solutions, part of IDS 08 Collaborations exhibit.

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Starting today and going until Sunday November 11 is the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair at The Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place. Tickets are $18, but $14 for seniors and youth (5-17) and free for kids under 5. It's a great place to take your kids to see horses and cows, and they can learn all about corporate sponsorship—I mean, agriculture!—with activities including the Toyota Dealers Royal Rodeo, the Toronto Star horse demonstrations, and the Pizza Nova Pizza Making Workshop! Presumably the Pizza Workshop happens after the Journey To Your Good Health! presentation on health and nutrition. But you'll have to let us know.

There's no arguing it: sex is everywhere. It's on tv, it's walking down the street, it's how each and every one of us came into existance. You might love it, you might hate it, but no matter what your thoughts on fornication, there's bound to be something for you at the Everything to Do With Sex Show.

This weekend, the Ex is once again hosting Toronto's popular Clothing Show, the retail sales event offering "the unique, the unusual, and the handcrafted" to the citizenry.

Exhibition Place has presented many new technologies since it was established in 1904, but a new pilot project outside the Automotive Building is using 40-year-old technology to lessen Toronto's energy impact: LED streetlights.

Everybody’s talking about the weather—now’s your chance to get out and do something about it. Mayor David Miller is inviting everyone in the city to attend the Climate Change Action Forum this Sunday, April 29 at Exhibition Place.

If you're a red-blooded Toronto sports fan you probably already have your Toronto FC season tickets in hand, waiting for the big kick-off against the Kansas City Wizards and the day Beckham arrives.

Torontoist has noticed an abundance of lost pet notices downtown this month, and what could be sadder, really? We don't know if it's a time of year when pets go missing more often, but we do know it's unlikely to be a result of a Halloween ritual blood sacrifice. Many shelters south of the border report that most of their missing animal calls come on the heels of July 4th fireworks, which often scare a pet out of the house and into hiding.

The City of Toronto will be holding a Public Auction sale tomorrow at Queen Elizabeth Exhibit Hall, Exhibition Place, with the preview beginning at 7am. There are 3 auction rings and the auctions begin at 9:30am (“SHARP!!” cries the website), with “Police Cars, Trucks & Trailers, Office Furniture & Bicycles, Lawn, Construction & Garage Equipment and Much More!” on offer, including this handy Zamboni (pictured). With no reserves, we’ve heard this is a likely place to pick up a bargain or two (especially on office furniture) though unfortunately only the vehicles are currently listed on the website; so you’re going to have to get up early to try and see what else is on offer. If you go, let us know if it was worth it!

Council is dealing with the fallout of the landfill deal. The Star found data that the city could've bought land at the Green Lane landfill site for much cheaper last year but did nothing. Jane Pitfield realises a day after the vote that she voted the wrong way and ended up supporting the mayor.

Mayoral Candidate Jane Pitfield is as fed up with the shenanigans at the TTC committee as we are but we think her idea of appointing members of the public to the committee is even worse. Pitfield wants four out of the nine members of the committee to be drawn from the public. On one hand we could get someone like James Bow on the TTC on the other hand we could get someone who is an SUV driving, bus hating idiot. More importantly, if we're having this much trouble reining in people we elected what's it gonna be like when we start dealing with people who are appointed?

Every couple of years, everyone outside of Europe in North America decides to become soccer fans. Can that feeling of excitement be sustained over the regular season?

It must have been the thrall of consumerism that prevented Torontoist from shouting from the rooftops sooner, to tell all new Spring fashion seekers and thrifty consumers that it is once again that time to congregrate upon the grounds of the Automotive Building at Exhibition Place for this season's installment of The Clothing Show. Taking place this weekend from 11am to 8pm on Saturday and 11am to 6pm on Sunday, the show will feature an unimaginable array of home-grown designers hoping to catch your eye in the hopes that you'll pluck down a couple of bucks for their wares, and speaking from past experience, shoppers can get quite a lot for not that much. Shoppers can achieve any look with designers that range from boutique, streetwear, vintage and a dizzying range of accessories. This faction of Torontoist has already begun to salivate and if anyone needs us, they know where to find us.

Three divisions of Toronto Police will be trying out tasers in the coming year the Sun reports. We've written about tasers before and how other jurisdictions have had problems with them. We hope that Toronto Police approach this with caution and aren't trigger happy with their new toys.

-The One of a Kind Show started yesterday, with artisans from all over the country hawking their wares. It's a bit of a trek out to Exhibition Place (the show, which seems to get bigger every year, is housed in the National Trade Centre), but it's worth it for the jam sampling alone, and it sure beats the Eaton Centre for charm and choice. Runs to December 4th.

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