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A different kind of party

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My friend was looking to do something different for her sons birthday. She heard about the Fox Theatre and I agreed that it was an awesome idea. You can rent out the theatre to watch a movie, or play video games on the big screen.Here’s the link to their website: http://www.foxtheatre.ca/rental

Votes to be tallied for new Waterfront street name

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Voting closed May 1/14  for the “Help Name a Waterfront Street” contest. The contest was launched on March 12 by Waterfront Toronto. Over a two-week period, the public was asked to submit street name suggestions via Facebook, Twitter and from their online poll. Submissions had to follow the City of Toronto’s Honourific and Street Naming … Read more

Liona Boyd is back in town

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By Lorie Murdoch • April 30, 2014 • Beach Metro Community News Liona Boyd is as friendly, modest and dynamic as she was when we talked more than 25 years ago. In the spring of 1987, she was enjoying the Beach neighbourhood close to her recently purchased digs on Fallingbrook Drive, and frequenting Loons for … Read more

Driven to unconventional theatre

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By Andrew Hudson • April 29, 2014Beach Metro Community News Your job is life and death.” Given six words, that’s how Rosamund Small gets at the heart of her new play, Vitals. Given two more words, Small might have added “and traffic.”Set in Toronto, Vitals dispatches the audience into a real house where a fictional … Read more

Block Ness teaches Neil McNeil robotics team

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By Andrew Hudson • April 29, 2014Beach Metro Community News Three days before a city-wide robotics contest, a freak radio problem had the Neil McNeil team re-thinking fast.The club robot, a.k.a. Block Ness Monster, was mostly behaving – it could carry a hockey puck, slide it on a giant crokinole board, and shoot it with … Read more

Treemobile bears fruit in the Beach

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By Andrew Hudson • April 29, 2014Beach Metro Community News He didn’t plant paw paws or goji berries, but Johnny Appleseed would certainly tip his hat to Treemobile, a volunteer group that delivers low-cost fruit trees across Toronto. Working last Saturday outside St. Saviour’s, an Anglican church in the Upper Beach, Treemobile volunteers sorted 40 … Read more

FYI: Intersection Closure

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Drivers will find the Queen Street East and Leslie Street intersection closed from May 11 to June 21 for TTC track work related to the Leslie Barns. Streetcars on the 501 route will run along Gerrard Street East between Broadview and Coxwell, while buses will replace the 502 and 503 streetcars, and travel via Dundas … Read more

The top 5 Toronto urban myths

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Posted by Chris Bateman / April 30, 2014 blogTO   Did you ever hear the one about the guy who fell out a window at TD Centre? Or what about the tale of whale bone under Queen’s Quay? Toronto is a hot bed of urban myths, some that are amazingly true, some that contain a … Read more