Paul O’Sullivan, a well-respected Toronto actor and comedian, dies in a car accident at 47.

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND IN KITS 1) Vote for best Kitsilano patio. We’d like to know what you think. Really. 2) Sign up for Kitsilano Pool membership. Canada’s longest pool opens this year on Saturday, May 19. Whether your into lounging or doing lap…

So Raven-Symone, the cute kid from The Cosby Show and star of Disney shows like The Cheetah Girls and That’s So Raven, came out and social media went wild.  And not in a good way.It also happened to be #NOH8 Day…

It’s May: month of Victoria Day, the Kitsilano Farmers Market launch, Kitsilano Pool’s season opening and more. But today I’m concerned with the patio season, another hallmark of the swiftly approaching summer. By May 17, I’m betting th…

Everyone follows some sort of celebrity on Facebook or Twitter.  If you say you don’t, you’re a bloody stinking liar.  I have decided to write about two celebrities in particular that I follow.  One I absolutely love.  His posts make me…

With the latest novel, Deadlocked, The Sookie Stackhouse Novels (aka Southern Vampire Mysteries) are now twelve books into the series and the cracks are showing. The plot, such as it is, was mildly interesting – a dead girl shows up on Eric’s front lawn and it becomes obvious that someone is trying to set him [...]

I love spending Sunday mornings browsing the neighbourhood Farmers Market with a cup of coffee. While I do find the products expensive, sometimes biting into a heirloom tomato that has never seen the inside of a refrigerator is truly priceless. This ti…

For those of you who might have missed it on Monday night, Gail Vaz-Oxlade did her impersonation of St. George and took on the Financi…12 Zoom(s)

When I was twenty-two I owned, and proudly wore, a burgundy coloured pirate shirt. It had puffy sleeves, a long v-neck with laces, and — if I let it — it hung to my knees. It was awesome. I had … Continue reading →

"It was awesome!" That was the response from my friend’s 11-year-old daughter coming out of Dancap’s production of West Side Story, now playing in Toronto. I’d debated bringing my 9-year-old daughter with me to opening night.  Yes, the songs in…

Canada’s longest pool opens this year on Saturday, May 19 – here’s what it looked like 75 years ago.

Lloyd Robertson, the avuncular face of broadcast news for more than four decades, will be inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame o…

The Canadian poet, novelist, and musician was honoured with the Glenn Gould Prize.

Leonard Cohen must have felt a sense of time’s great circle, Monday night. Honoured at Massey Hall as the Ninth Laureate of the Glenn Gould Prize, the iconic Montrealer doffed his fedora to the applauding crowd, cracking jokes and dryly sharing stories from early in his career. In that booming, legendary baritone, he recalled meeting [...]

At least Obama has the backing of some serious Hollywood heavyweights when it comes to funding, something that the Romney campaign can only dream of. With George Clooney raising over $15 million for Obama’s re-election campaign and the Democrati…

Bass player and songwriter Donald “Duck” Dunn, a member of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the…

The Annual Khatsalano Music Festival is kicking it up a notch this year. I started to take more notice of this event when I heard that the West 4th BIA had turned to festival production powerhouse Brand.Live to produce this years Khatsalano Festival. B…

I was sitting here daydreaming when a thought struck me so hard I almost fell off my chair! Not only is life not fair, but fate has a strange sense of humour as well! Like most other men my age I have kicked and clawed my way through various jobs and schemes to make money [...]

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  Urban Outfitters (now open) renovates 2199 West 4th Avenue. WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND IN KITS 1) Get some grassy park real estate. If the weather plays as nice as the forecast promises, now’s the time to spread a blanket or build a tent. Gather …

The rewards for slug prevention with pots and copper: Hosta ‘Ghostmaster’. Photo credit: Meredith Brehaut Things are growing now with the warmer temperatures and my garden is being invaded by the season’s first line of predators: slugs. T…