This makes me so happy.

By way of explamation, Janice Poon is an old acquaintance of my mother, and Mum frequently hired her to paint murals, install custom-made artwork, and create centerpieces for many of the restaurants Mum designed. And, yes, she's an amazing cook too. Now, she's the food stylist for NBC's Hannibal, which films in Ontario ( Read more... )

Malene Arpe is dead.Malene was the former film section editor for the now defunct (I still miss it!) Eye Weekly and then moved over to be the entertainment blogger for the Toronto Star. I followed her Stargazing posts (in all of their various media forms) for years. She was a nerd of the first order, she loved reading EVERYTHING, she was blunt and ( Read more... )

Yesterday it snowed. People bitched. There was an accident every 3 minutes in the GTA.

*facepalm, Toronto, seriously...*Time to get real. Here is photographic proof that we've had it way worse. In 1944, 48 cm (21 inches) of snow fell in one day. 21 people died, 13 of them due to heart attacks from trying to clear the snow ( Read more... )

Oh, FER FUCK'S SAKE! There's ANOTHER video of Mayor Rob Ford in which he is a) drunk off his not-so-tiny ass, b) pretending to be a coked-out luchador, or c) taken over by a confused and angry alien parasite.

And then there is THIS equally embarrassing non-apology/response to the previous video.

Mayor Ford ( Read more... )

I am, I am - hold yer water...

But these might interest:
Obama and McCain get their own comic book treatments -
http://www.thestar.com/News/USElection/article/469706

and, Igor Kenk - bike thief, faces drug charges, up to 60 counts of theft, and the potential ( Read more... )

From today's Toronto Star ( Read more... )