Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'whentorontoist'
February 28, 2008
You may have noticed the sharp rise in coffee cups littering our streets, which can only mean one thing: it’s Roll Up The Rim time at Tim Hortons once again. When Torontoist was young and starry-eyed, we used to dream of unrolling our cup and finding that we had won a car or a boat or some awesome camping gear. (What ever happened to that prize anyway? It was always the best one.) After......
Continue Reading "Free Coffee for Losers"August 17, 2007
When Torontoist reader Maya Friedman posed the question, "If Torontoist were to get married (on a budget) where would the wedding be?" it got us thinking. Not only about where we’d get married, but how we’d do the rest on the cheap, too. Because if you’re like us, you feel a little sick when you’re watching Rich Bride, Poor Bride and the couple announces, “We spent $43,851 on our special day!” The actual ceremony is......
Continue Reading "We're Going To The Chapel... On The Cheap"August 12, 2007
Songs about zombies, drive-by shootings, Obi-Wan Kenobi, pirates, monsters, punching people in the face, pregnancy, "reeking and seeking," families, obesity, virginity—all of them catchy, all of them disconcertingly happy-sounding, and all of them sing-and-clap-along-able. That is what Austin's Oh No! Oh My! is made of, and their albums—their self-titled full-length; their new EP, Between The Devil and The Sea; and their Jolly Rogers demo that the songs from the new EP are culled from—are the......
Continue Reading "Oh No! Oh My! Oh Yes!"July 20, 2007
When Torontoist was a wee tyke, we used to hate gym class. It made us feel flabby, unloved, and a little tired. Recess, on the other hand, was the greatest thing ever—every day! The jungle gym! Tag! Imaginary battles! Recess had it all. As we’ve gotten older and indulge ourselves in eating street meat and the like, we are slowly beginning to realize that perhaps we should have paid a little bit more attention......
Continue Reading "The Return of Recess"June 25, 2007
Last Thursday, June 21, art and drink enthusiasts united in the back room of Mercer Union (37 Lisgar Street) where artist Dean Baldwin was serving drinks from the teensiest bar in the city. The installation was called Minibar, which did double duty as a performance piece and beverage catering for the opening night of the gallery's exhibition, Seducing Down The Door. The "building" was a mere 3x3 metres2 with a stooped doorway and ceiling.......
Continue Reading "The Smallest Bar In Town"June 22, 2007
Kensington Market Organic Ice Cream has returned! This small, Toronto-based artisinal ice cream joint that took our taste buds by storm several summers ago has always had trouble maintaining a venue. Last summer, it was operating out of The Back Alley (the restaurant, not an actual back alley) on Augusta. The summer before that, it was using the since-abandoned Sancis Fine Foods storefront on Kensington. Torontoist was dismayed a little while back when ice......
Continue Reading "We All Scream!"January 22, 2007
When Torontoist joined forces with blogTO, Reading Toronto, and Spacing and asked our readers for feedback on the TTC's website at the beginning of this month, we had absolutely no idea that we would get such an enormous response. We'd like to thank you all again for participating, and we've taken each and every one of the ideas that we received to heart. Now, it's time to move forward. The Editors and Publishers of......
Continue Reading "An Open Letter to the TTC"December 5, 2006
When Torontoist hit up perezhilton.com this morning to check for updates on Britney's hoo-ha, we were struck by a sense of familiarity over Perez's new line of merchandise. If you'll remember, we did an interview with the Gossip Gangsta back in September, accompanied by a graphic of Perezzle as a saint that we made. We knew Hilton was a fan—he did ask us to make a version for t-shirts (and to pay for it)—but......
Continue Reading "Sincerez Form Of Flattery?"September 5, 2006
When Torontoist began to watch Fido we were a little under whelmed. The opening parody of 1950’s informational film, describing a world in which cosmic space dust has brought the dead back to life and given them an endless hunger for braaainsss… was a little stale (though, yes, informative) and the initial set-up, “Timmy is a lonely little boy whose mummy doesn’t listen and whose daddy doesn’t even see him” is pretty heavily telegraphed. However,......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2006 Preview: Canada First: Fido"July 30, 2006
Hey, have y'all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own. Phillyist thinks that readers recommended this post the most because "most of our quieter readers (probably) agree with us that rude commenting sucks." Know what else sucks? Philly's not getting the Olympics, but they are getting thinner.......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere in the Ist-A-Verse"September 7, 2005
Torontoist doesn't have a lot of time now that summer is over. Not a lot of time to do up an indepth Le Mercredi Mixtape, that is, but don't fear, there is some good new music here. 1. Amestory - "They're Telling You You've Been Alive" Amestory live and breathe in the cool dark beneath the piano's top, in the body of the violin, breathing the sad sunless air. Although, Torontoist is surely glad......
Continue Reading "The Mixtape Smorgasbord"