Results tagged “newgeneration”

We wanted to start off this challenge with a proclamation, in Japanese, of our deep love of sushi. Unfortunately, all the online translators we tried just came up with a bunch of squares. We're pretty sure the Japanese language has evolved past this, so we're going to have to blame it on our inferior translator-finding skills and move on.

Sarah Polley is having a kickass month as her debut directorial feature, Away From Her, racks up the accolades. On Sunday, the Los Angeles film critics gave Polley a New Generation Award for up-and-coming directors. Then, on Monday, the New York film critics felt Away From Her was 2007's Best First Film. In addition, earlier this month Polley was named one of the "50 Smartest People in Hollywood" by Entertainment Weekly. She's the youngest...

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, the fourth volume in the popular comic book series by Brian Lee O'Malley, hits stores across the city today.

Everyone's all excited over the reopening of New Generation Sushi, and that's all very well and good, but it seems no one has been paying much attention to the odd goings on, sign-wise, across the street at Sushi Time:

Don't have plans for Mother's Day? Why don't you take your mother to the newly reopened New Generation Sushi. Torontoist was sad to see the Annex stalwart get gutted by fire in December but we're happy to see NGS back on its feet. All we have to say is Kampai (that's cheers in Japanese).

New Generation Sushi, a mainstay of the Annex neighbourhood, has closed due to a fire accident.

Bloor Street, between Spadina and Bathurst, was already the go-to-it stretch for cheap sushi, and free green tea ice cream. But the past few weeks have helped the sashimi strip up the ante even further - two new Japanese restaurants, which brings the tally to an impressive eight restaurants in about as many blocks. They're all on the cheap to reasonable side to begin with, so TOist has to wonder how low the pricewars will make a Makimono Set go.

And speaking of Canuck women and theatre, if you happen to be popping by London, England, in the next little while, Kim Cattrall is about to star in a play about euthanasia called Whose Life is it Anyway? directed by British stage legend Peter Hall. Casting the actress best known as Samantha from Sex and the City as a paralysed woman who has no feeling below her neck has got to be the ultimate in casting against type, no?