Posts tagged with Toronto
August 28, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
There is something irresistible about a beautifully designed coffee shop. And Balzac’s Coffee in Toronto’s Distillery District is just such a place. Located in an antiquated warehouse, the ambience exudes an industrial-chic meets French bistro aesthetic with its worn brick walls, pressed tin coffee bar, checkerboard tiled flooring, and 20ft ceiling adorned with exposed pipes. Read more
August 24, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
These promotional, limited-edition movie posters, designed by Justin Erickson for Toronto-based marketing firm Phantom City Creative, are pure rulage, especially the one for Let The Right One In. Read more
July 2, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak 
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Drawing from her experience as a printmaker (she was one half of Scotland-based printmaking duo Whitehaus), Cody Cochrane, now residing in her hometown of Toronto, makes amazingly layered and ornate paintings and murals that often incorporate Native American motifs with bizarre sexual humor. Read more
June 15, 2010 | New Events | by Erin Letson |
Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have brought their experimental art to the masses with an installation housed in a salvaged, thirty-foot Chinese junk ship in Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park. Read more
June 3, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
Over the years chocolate has evolved from mass-produced baking tablets in kitchens where dark chocolate was virtually unheard of, to a distinguished product coveted for its incredible complexity. However, today’s attitude towards chocolate has not so much evolved as it has returned to its pagan roots when it was revered as a wondrous, even medicinal, ingredient. Enter Soma Chocolatemaker in Toronto’s uber-hip Distillery District where you can ‘eat, drink and worship chocolate’. Read more
May 25, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beer Scream? At Toronto-based Beerbistro, ice cream is being turned into something to really scream about. Specializing in what they call ‘fresh market beer cuisine’, Beerbistro is a beer lover’s dream, with twenty beers on tap, 140 plus bottles, and a menu entirely comprised of beer flavored dishes — including dessert. Read more
April 9, 2010 | New Photography | by Zolton |
Demolition Derby, a print by Toronto photographer Finn O’Hara, reflects his fascination with environmental portraits, which play off the experiences and the personalities of those who live or inhabit the space itself. Our friends over at Feature Shoot have the print available for purchase for $50.
April 1, 2010 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
isn’t this the fantasy bedroom you’ve always wanted but never knew how to get out of your head and into reality? Well, Toronto interior decorator Holly Dyment has been doing just the opposite. For more than twenty-five years, she’s been taking rooms from the gritty truth of reality deep into the fantastical realm of her wickedly ornate imagination. Her work has been featured in Canadian House and Home and Style At Home magazine.
March 30, 2010 | New Music | 
by Zolton |
Toronto-based Solvent’s latest full-length album, Subject to Shift, is out soon on Ghostly International and is another glitchy, robotic masterpiece of pop surrealism, ‘a mix of dystopian, acid-tinged futurism and bittersweet romantic ache’, bowing gently to the beautiful template he set earlier with his radio-friendly hummer, My Radio. Check out the Mitgang Audio Remix of that track below.
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February 15, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Sometimes an artist describes him or herself so aptly that it leaves others with nothing much more to say. In the case of Toronto-based illustrator Karlo Ghokasian, he has this to say about himself: ‘Most people go to university to become fancy doctors and sexy lawyers. You know, real important type careers. I on the other hand spent four years drawing vaginas. So, why have I chosen to be an illustrator? Well, I’m not in it for the money. I do it to impress women’. Read more
February 4, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Josh McIntyre, aka Little Girls, recently released a cover of Beach House’s epic 10 Mile Stereo. Little Girls will also be releasing a 7-inch split, Volume 2 of Best of Both Records, a Toronto and Oslo based label that does splits with bands from both cities. We have a free download of 10 Mile Stereo in our Music Download section.
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January 29, 2010 | New Trends | 
by The Uncool Hunter |
The traditional game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is generally considered to be a children’s activity, but some adults use it to solve their differences. And, get this, it’s also now a ‘sport’ controlled by an international association with tournaments played in many countries. The highest authority is the World Rock Paper Scissors Society located in Toronto, Canada, which regulates and promotes the sport and organizes conferences, an annual retreat, and monthly tournaments in clubs and institutions. And then there’s the World Championship, which takes place annually in Toronto. Now, quick choose your weapon. We take Scissors. [Watch a video of last year's exciting World Championship final] Read more
December 11, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
Jessica Fortner is a Toronto-based freelance illustrator. She creates unique one-of-a-kind hand-sculpted illustrations. Jessica just finished four illustration’s in her on-going series My Woodland, My Nightmare. Read more
December 5, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
Like maple syrup and ice hockey, nothing says Canada more than poutine: French fried potatoes smothered in cheese curds and then topped with thick, rich gravy. And while most Canadians will argue that the very best poutine can only come from Quebec — where the idea was born — Poutini’s House of Poutine, in Toronto, are looking to give the Quebecois a run for their money. Mon dieu! Here, at Poutini’s House, Nick and Fred Laliberte are serving up what has been voted the very best poutine in Toronto. Read more
November 5, 2009 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Toronto-based painter Andre Ethier combines traditional painting techniques with flowing, textured brushwork to lend his psychedelic paintings a brooding moodiness that is reminiscent of the work of Ivan Albright as well as that of the Surrealists. Unlike other artists working with similar themes, Ethier’s images are more somber than they are giddily hallucinatory, and the horror he portrays is more nuanced, with vague references to ancient mythology and pop culture Read more
Ryan Riss, aka Craptical, is firmly rooted in the grotesque school of pop art, drawing heavily from horror comics, drug culture imagery, and the work of Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth. Beneath the irreverence and sophomoric imagery, however, is contrastingly well-controlled line work and a mature sense of design and composition. Read more
With winter long gone, New York-based label Enfants Perdus keeps it chill with a re-imagining of their Milgram collection in icy white gold. The gothic-Byzantine pieces incorporate luxurious elements of ink-black opals, pale white sapphires, and diamonds. Read more
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
There’s no shame in being a spinster seeking solace from a meme blog, so for all you lonely gals (and guys) out there, Cute Boys with Cats offers to dull the pain of those lonely, lonely nights.
I have known Hayden for almost twenty years. He has always released quality music and that is why he can wait four years between releases and his fans are still there. His latest album — In Field & Town — went straight into heavy rotation in our home and I think will extend his fan base further than even he might like.
Ring out the bad, and ring in the good, Yessir, these Happy Day and Crappy Day rings are just that: a jolt of brutal realism cloaked in saccharine sweet colourings.
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Using Kyoko Hashimoto’s popular design, these acrylic earrings are made with unique hand formed sterling silver sleepers that make them light enough for everyday wear. Part of Kyoko’s collection, I Blame the Uni, (pronounced ‘oo-nee’, the Japanese name for sea urchin) and inspired by her experiences in the underground club scene of Tokyo. Read more
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