An Experiment
Here’s the idea: instead of bringing along an iPod full of music (I’ve brought one along as a backup), we are going to hit the road with an iPhone and the NPR app....
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Malta Bake Shop
Toronto has the world’s largest Maltese community outside of Malta. And if that community has a beating heart then perhaps it is the Malta Bake Shop at the corner of Dundas West and...
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John, Yoko, Dad and Me
When I was in CÉGEP, my look was a pair of a jeans and an oversized tweed jacket with a torn elbow, and a lapel festooned with rock-band pins and a Guinness bottle...
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When You Don’t Have Time for Coffee (So Long, Starbucks!) Part 2
Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? Somebody’s already upped the ante and Regular CoffeeGo has been supplanted by Bali’s Best Espresso Candy! Gourmet espresso-on-the-go is finally here in convenient chew tab...
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When You Don’t Have Time for Coffee (So Long, Starbucks!) Part 1
Why settle for liquid form when you can now get your coffee in convenient chewable flavour tabs that are individually sealed? What will they think of next? Could this spell the beginning of...
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If You Weren’t Afraid of Clowns Before…
You probably are now. But if you’re brave enough to put this gun-toting clown of an ornament on your lawn, your hipster cred will surely increase tenfold.
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Another Eyesore on Yonge Street
(Another snap from my iPhone…) After last year’s addition of a monster patio with six big screens blasting sports all hours of the day, the St. Louis Ribs & Wings franchise at the...
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One-Way Ticket to Manhood
(Snaps from my iPhone…) Step aside Viagra spammers. My One-way Ticket to Manhood is not your low-cost potency enhancing pills but Dockers, Levi’s ubiquitous line of khakis that has made unfashionable bottoms the...
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Adrianne Rubenstein, Douglas Coupland and Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
It’s strange how bad news fades from the media spotlight. In late 2006, we started hearing reports that bee colonies across the planet were collapsing. Everything from farming and bee keeping practices to...
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Vapour Trail over Silver City (Up in the Air)
I snapped this a while back because I liked the juxtaposition of the retro-futuristic Silvercity logo and the contrail left by a passing jet. It made me think of the dubious definition of...
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