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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'torontolivejournal'

November 21, 2007

The National Post is reporting today that Coyote Ugly––the raunchy, almost-a-strip-club-bar that inspired a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that everyone, including Piper Perabo, forgot about five years ago––will open up its first Canadian "saloon" next year at 220 Adelaide Street West. Coyote Ugly is upfront about its intentions: on their website, the bar explains the "business plan" of its first owner, Lil' Lovell, was "beautiful girls + booze = money." The organization's slogan is "Don't Just......

Continue Reading "Coyote Moderately Attractive"

October 25, 2007

Knitting: it's not just for grandmas anymore, but you already knew that. It's not just for crafty hipsteristas either. A group of teachers at Highland Heights Junior Public School have started a Knitting Club to help keep inner city kids out of trouble. Many of the students come from public housing, so the school relies heavily on fundraising for a extracurricular activities. When the idea of the Knitting Club was first conceived, the teachers......

Continue Reading "Don't Be A Jerk: Help A Kid Knit"

April 27, 2007

Remember Jean Chrétien? We haven't heard much about the former prime minister in some time (dude's been off the map ever since Paul Martin forced him off it). Well, Mizalaina of the Toronto LiveJournal community spotted Chrétien earlier today in downtown Toronto, and has one hell of a story to go along with it: So an hour ago I'm walking north along York St. I hear a crash ahead of me and see a......

Continue Reading "Jean Chrétien is Alive and Well and Crashing in Toronto"

December 14, 2006

We just found out about this absolutely incredible transit map of Toronto that incorporates the TTC, Go Transit, VIVA, Brampton Transit, Mississauga Transit, and Vaughan Transit into handy-dandy Google Map form, meaning you can easily input a location and find the nearest transit routes that surround it. Best of all, unlike other maps before it, it doesn't include only major stops but everything -- including bus and streetcar routes and it's integrated with our own......

Continue Reading "The Best Map Ever in the History of Anything"

August 31, 2006

At around 3:00 this afternoon, a man got into a cab at Bloor and St. George and told the driver he had a bomb. CityNews is reporting that the cabbie fled and alerted authorities. After 90 minutes of negotiations the man was arrested by police. No actual explosive was found at the scene or on the suspect. The Toronto Livejournal Community has more details.......

Continue Reading "Breaking News: Bomb Threat At St. George Stops Traffic"

July 26, 2006

"Overheard" on the Toronto Livejournal community: ME (On Bicycle): What kind of bike is that? COP (On horseback, in the bike lane): WHAT? ME: What kind of bike is that? COP: It's a horse. ME: Great! Get the @#$% out of the bike lane then. We have to admire this guy's moxie and want to point you to Matt Blackett's passionate rant about mounted cops from the Spacing Wire.......

Continue Reading "Streeter: Reigniting the Horse Cop Debate"

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