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6) #BeerEh: Where to get the cheapest beer in Toronto: In a partnership with Huffington Post Canada, OpenFile cities told you about the cost of beer across the country. From the cheap stuff to the good stuff, we looked at what affects beer prices in Ontario, and scouted for some of the best bar deals in the city (including $7 pitchers!).
7) At Idomo furniture, a pitchman’s final sale: “Unlike so many of Toronto’s more abrasive hucksters—from ‘Bad Boy’ Mel Lastman and his obnoxious bellows of ‘Noooooobody!’ to costumed stunts by Russell Oliver’s (a.k.a. ‘Cash Man,’ a.k.a. ‘The Loan Arranger’)—Gerrit de Boer exhibited a distinctive warmth and humility,” writes John Semley on the retirement of one of the city’s top furniture moguls.
New Broadview House Hotel stands its ground: Four-storey flophouse or a bastion of local east-end heritage? John Semley looks at the story of the building at Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue, known both for its connections to one of the country’s most successful oil tycoons and for Jilly’s, its infamous ground-floor strip club.

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Is it possible to miss someone who existed only as a shimmering image?
For me, that someone is Elizabeth Taylor, who died March 23, age 79.
And the answer is a resounding yes.
I never met her, and I saw her in person just once, at a Cannes Film Festival event where she was mobbed by adoring fans.
Yet I’ve always thought of her as the ultimate movie star, as I wrote at the time of her death. Her passing robs Hollywood of a big part of its glamour.
The lady with the violet eyes brought an Egyptian queen to life (Cleopatra), made a call girl awesome and empathetic (Butterfield 8), turned a living room toxic (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), scratched like an angry feline (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and made horses — and hearts — leap (National Velvet).

See the full article from “San Francisco Luxury News”

Toronto Police, having alerted the city to the danger of a child abduction in the wake of the sexual assault of a four-year-old girl, now have a new problem: trying to calm down frightened parents in the same neighbourhood. Accordingly, they’ve beefed up patrols in the Bathurst and Wilson area.
The Prime Minister of Grenada is calling for an inquiry after a Toronto man died over Christmas. Oscar Bartholomew, 39, was beaten by Grenada police and left in a cell, waiting hours before police called an ambulance.
Peter Kuitenbrouwer in the National Post has a story to tell: everything you ever wanted to know about the Leslieville, uh, landmark: Jilly’s strip club. Unlike similar buildings in Toronto’s east end—like the Drake and Gladstone hotels—Jilly’s reminds us of what Queen street was not too long ago, and still is in parts.

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Danzig laughed and said “the best part was that it kick started my career and got me in the UFC. The worst part was total isolation from the world for six weeks and not knowing what was going on at home.”
Most MMA fighters truly are approachable and love interacting with fans that love the sport. Toronto’s own Sean Pierson proved it when the expo asked him if he wanted to sign autographs the day of the event. He did this, despite the fact he was in the middle of training for a big fight at the end of the month. When he was done, he stuck around to visit with fans.
I spoke to him about his feelings after being let go a year ago by the Toronto police force for using the nickname “Pimp Daddy” given to him by a local promoter 10 years ago.

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… Definitely in the future that could be a problem but because I’m not that far into the game, I haven’t had to cross that bridge yet.”
One possibility would be to have his management partner, Neil Forester, negotiate his fighters’ contact with the UFC.
While they have yet to settle on a name for their company, Pierson has settled on a new nickname– “The Punisher.”
A self-proclaimed “superhero geek,” Pierson thought it was a good fit. especially since one of his coaches had already started calling him that after the boxer Paul (The Punisher) Williams.
Pierson was once known as Pimp Daddy for his flamboyant entrances. He gave up that nickname years ago, thinking that it had negative connotations, but it still came back to haunt him when he applied to become a Toronto police officer.

See the full article from “CP24″

… Definitely in the future that could be a problem but because I’m not that far into the game, I haven’t had to cross that bridge yet.”
One possibility would be to have his management partner, Neil Forester, negotiate his fighters’ contact with the UFC.
While they have yet to settle on a name for their company, Pierson has settled on a new nicknameâ “The Punisher.”
A self-proclaimed “superhero geek,” Pierson thought it was a good fit. especially since one of his coaches had already started calling him that after the boxer Paul (The Punisher) Williams.
Pierson was once known as Pimp Daddy for his flamboyant entrances. He gave up that nickname years ago, thinking that it had negative connotations, but it still came back to haunt him when he applied to become a Toronto police officer.

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Emerging from under the neon sign, “Jilly’s Exotic Dancing,” is John Chilton, wearing a black windbreaker and black toque. Mr. Chilton, 62, moved to this hotel two months ago after his previous home, the Edwin, changed hands. A former driver, he had an accident and now survives on $1,050 a month from the Ontario Disability Support Program, of which $550 goes to his room. He shares a communal shower.
“It’s not too bad,” he says. “I live on the second floor. I don’t bother anybody.” Evenings, he frequents Jilly’s, and often eats the burger and fries special, $4.50. As Mr. Chilton and I walk up to Coffee & Donuts, on Broadview just north of Gerrard Street East, for coffee, he talks about Jilly’s.
“What are people so upset about?” he asks. “If they don’t want to, they don’t have to go to the strip clubs. Maybe they don’t believe in all that. Maybe they don’t smoke or drink…. You can be religious and all that but nobody’s perfect.

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Two productions at Niagara-on-the-Lake with animals in the title and filled with ferocious performances. Yes, I’m cheating by lumping them together – but how can you choose between the intergenerational rumbles of Jim Mezon vs. Gray Powell in Cat and Nigel Shawn Williams vs. Kevin Hanchard in Dog? This country is blessed with some fine acting talent.
When the Rain Stops Falling Shaw Festival
It only played for a few weeks in the Niagara-on-the-Lake festival’s smallest theatre, but this fantastic family epic still haunts those who saw it. Australian playwright Andrew Bovell’s drama was exquisitely directed by Peter Hinton – and three generations of acting talent in the Shaw ensemble rose to the challenge.
Honorable mentions
If I was being less arbitrary with my number of picks or criteria I might add Ruined (Obsidian Theatre Company in association with Nightwood Theatre), Another Africa (Volcano/Canadian Stage), The Middle Place (Project: Humanity/Theatre Passe Muraille/Canadian Stage/GCTC), ONE (SummerWorks), Fela! (presented by Mirvish), Eternal Hydra (Crow’s Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Soulpepper), Our Class (Studio 180 and Canadian Stage) and Brothel #9 (Factory Theatre).

See the full article from “Globe and Mail”

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John Chilton, 62, poses outside his current home at New Broadview Hotel on top of Jilly’s strip club in Toronto Thursday, December 22, 2011.

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… Once you try it, you get hooked on it and you always need it,” Lyons said from her home in Owen Sound, where she is a student at Georgian College. “You spiral down and lose sight of anything else … It’s a never-ending thing. You know (you’re addicted), but the drugs blindfold you.”
A couple of years after Lyons first gave birth in 2003, child services, knowing of Lyons’ lifestyle, were about to move in to take the child from her. Lyons’ mother, however, stepped in to take custody of the baby instead.
Alone and depressed, Lyons went on a “free-for-all” of drug abuse, propelling her habit by turning tricks and selling dope. It wouldn’t be until the winter of 2008 — while Lyons was in custody and charged with dealing coke — that she discovered she was pregnant for a second time.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”