October 20, 2015 at 5:30 pm

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Extra, Extra: Drake’s Restaurant Opens for Business, Toronto Artists Dominate Billboard 100, and a Bag of Lost Bodily Fluids Gets Recovered

By Kelli Korducki

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Fring’s, the Drake and Susur Lee restaurant collaboration whose announcement made waves last month, is now open for business. The restaurant’s website is taking reservations for dinners beginning tonight, with a menu that boasts upscale takes on comfort food standards like fried chicken and avocado toast.

Speaking of Drake, he’s one of three Toronto-area artists with songs in the top five of Billboard’s Hot 100 this week (and four if you count Stratford native Justin Bieber as a “Toronto-area artist,” which we don’t). Our beloved newbie restauranteur holds the second-place slot in the top five with “Hotline Bling” for the second week in a row, while The Weeknd’s “The Hills” is enjoying its fifth week in the top spot. Pickering’s Shawn Mendes is in the number five spot with “Stitches.”
Don’t you hate it when you misplace a sack of bodily fluids? Public Health Ontario announced today that a bag of blood and nasopharyngeal samples was found yesterday after being reported stolen near Weston Road and Black Creek Drive on Friday afternoon. The bag and its biological goop was, as it turns out, accidentally rerouted to another healthcare facility before being recovered.
From today’s edition of 12:36: Jane Jacobs is finally getting her opera. A Marvelous Order, about the 1950s battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs, will have its first work-in-progress performance on November 2 in Brooklyn. While the title is drawn from Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the opera’s director, Joseph Frankel, is trying to be even-handed: “The biggest challenge is we don’t want to make this, Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven,” he tells the Atlantic Citylab—though he admits it’s not an easy task, because, “She is just so darn right, so much.”. (Want more 12:36? Subscribe to it now.)