Photo by ethervision from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. 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. Invented as an early form of fast......

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. We feel confident in saying that there has never been a person in the history of time who hasn't liked this series. The fact that Scott Pilgrim is set entirely in Toronto only makes it more appealing: live vicariously through the characters as they eat dynamite rolls at New Generation......

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: First of all, it seems to have been renamed either J-Time or I-Time - it's hard to tell. This doesn't help in clearing anything up - we're even more confused, what with the old name plainly......

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. At post time, there are not many details as to the severity or cause of the fire - only that occurred within the last few days. The Japanese restaurant will now begin restoration and renovation "until further notice." The unfortunate closure has attracted the sympathy from surrounding businesses, who've sent neon poster board 'get well' cards on display in......

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......

Two shows are opening in previews in Toronto today and –- to either the delight or the dismay of those who have been complaining lately about the under-representation of women on the city’s stages -- they are both written by female playwrights. Keira Loughran's Little Dragon, a story about a Chinese-Canadian woman who is introduced to martial arts and begins to suspect that Bruce Lee may be her father, is at Theatre Passe-Muraille, while Claudia......