This fall has seen a few changes in Toronto’s west end Junction neighborhood (of New York Times fame):
Bronto Burger is now Jocelyn’s Place (2982 Dundas St. West, just west of Pacific Ave.), with a new owner but same menu/price and deco (at least for now). The food and service continue to be as good.
The [...]
The Junction Arts Festival is back on Sept 9 to 13, 2009 of its 17th occasion in Toronto’s west end on Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue. The festival presents visual, musical, performance, new media and site-specific works to over 150,000 people transforming Dundas Street West into a pedestrian-only, urban cultural destination.
September [...]
Toronto Life has a piece on Dufflet Pasteries winning a gold for best confection at the 2009 Sofi Awards in New York (Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show).
I became aware of this because they used (part of) a photo (with Attribution) I had taken of their Beach location (1917 Queen St. East) [...]
My jaw literally did drop when I realized that my home neighbourhood, west end Toronto’s Junction City, was the topic of a article in the NYT’s travel section in Skid Row to Hip in Toronto , not just as part of a 36 Hours in Toronto but on its own! (we are not yet [...]
A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed :
T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source.
The focus of the article was largely on an event run at the Center for Social Innovation run [...]
During the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, I was in Los Angeles taking advantage of visiting friends before they returned to Japan. (thank you Hikaru & Mayuko!) It was a chance not only to hang out with them, but also see LA almost for the first time – if you don’t count when I went to [...]
This was our first trip back in exactly 7 years, having been there in at this date in the days before that awful day. We have only just resumed traveling to the “States” again, a combination of things, including the exchange rate but mostly friends, having drawn us back.
We left early Sunday morning via [...]
The Toronto Ukrainian Festival (formerly the Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival) is comming back to Bloor West Village (it was “away” last year at Toronto’s waterfront Harbourfront Centre) and will be on September 12 – 14, 2008.
This is the 12th year of the Largest Ukrainian festival in North America.
Rock musician (and Winnipeger) Randy Bachman (of [...]
Roncesvalles Village is a wonderful neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end, south of Bloor and East of High Park, sometimes known as “Little Poland” (there is a Roncesvalles Polish Festival this September 13th and 14th).
Not to be out done by the fancy pants events prompted by the city like Summerlicious and Winterlicious,the village is throwing a [...]
Lou’s Coffee Bar (as in Cindy Lou) @ (514 Annette :north east side side of Annette and Runnymede Road, in the west end of Toronto i.e. Bloor West Village, High Park, Malta Village, and The Junction ) is the friendly neighborhood bean shop (and my preferred “Third Place”). Friendly to dogs [...]
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