Window displays The Globe & Mail Brick My el-cheapo shoes that not only survived three weeks in Europe but also two years with a known shoe-killer Chinese take-out shaped boxes Working within walking distance of the downtown core Poutine from Route 99 Card shopping Spring greenery

Joining the ranks of Dinner Revolution and Passionate Plate is Tasty TakeAways. Profiled in this week’s Vue Weekly, it is another local venture offering pre-packaged meals for those seeking home cooked goodness in the midst of their busy lives. Lining up for my morning fix last week at Starbucks, I encountered a young man handcuffed [...]

Mack posted about this last week, but Zagat has been put up for sale. While I don’t think the expansion of the Michelin guides to North America poses that much of a threat to the empire Zagat has built in the United States, it might not be a bad idea for the brand to add [...]

Prison Break is back on Monday! But perhaps they should have just held on to the remaining episodes until filming resumed…another (likely lengthy) hiatus won’t be easy to take. I watched Juno last night, and really enjoyed it. I’m so proud of the fact that both Ellen Page and Michael Cera are Canadian, and happy [...]

Starbucks introduced their “Skinny Lattes” this week, made with skim milk and sugar free syrup. When Second Cup added the word “skinny” to their menu, I wasn’t impressed, and the same applies to Starbucks – what is wrong with ordering a custom latte the old fashioned way? Moreover, they have added a “How nutritious is [...]

The Silk Hat is not dead! (Though it will be minus a few antique jukeboxes.) I watched the Holiday Dessert special of Iron Chef America this weekend. Though there are dissenting opinions on this episode, I loved it! For once, the competitors (Cat Cora/Paula Deen vs. Robert Irvine/Tyler Florence) were less than serious, and had [...]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one – phantom vibrations, or “ringxiety” are becoming more and more common. One man they interviewed for the article made me laugh – he claims to anticipate messages on his Blackberry, “I’ll feel it, look at it. It’s not vibrating. Then it starts vibrating…I am one with my [...]

I called Langano Skies on Sunday night with the intention of reserving a table for a group of us the next day, but it turned out the restaurant is closed Mondays. Anna attempted the same with a few eateries close by to no avail. So nearly by default we ended up at Next Act Pub [...]

Yes, the title is a bad joke, but one I’ll only use once in my life, so it’s permissible. I won’t subject anyone to the gritty details of my wisdom teeth extraction, but I will say that the entire procedure only took 40 minutes or so (I didn’t even get to watch #1 on the [...]

I spent some time with Bettina this afternoon to celebrate her birthday (happy birthday!) and one of our stops included the perennial favorite, McDonald’s. I couldn’t resist taking a picture of the box containing cherry pie – I was curious as to why a couple was featured prominently on the purple packaging. Is there some [...]