By Melinda M, on June 13th, 2010%
JB Laundromat at 132 Ossington, in between Ossington Tire and Reposado, has closed. Signs in the window invite customers to visit Hollywood Laundry up the street ins tead.
For the past few years, we have seen lots of changes on Ossington. What does it mean that we are down to one laundromat on Ossington? Hollywood Laundry looked pretty crowded this morning, so if you need to use their washing machines, I guess you’ll have to give yourself more time, or go on off hours. 
We’ll keep you posted when a new tenant takes over 132 Ossington, and let us know if you hear anything, in the comments!
By Brians, on May 29th, 2010%
 We’re excited to announce that we’re one year old today!
It was one year ago that Joe Pantalone, our current mayoral candidate, annoyed me so much by blocking new restaurant openings on Ossington without consultation from the neighbours that I went home and started writing.
90 Posts later we are still going – and an example of Hyper-local blogging.
A lot has happened this year on Ossington.
We launched our Twitter account only 2 months ago and are keeping the neighbourhood up to date with our shorter updates. Follow us on Twitter here.
We thought we’d celebrate with a new look! The fantastic graphic design of Ananuku Kolar and Better Art Design & Direction put together our first logo, and I spent a beautiful May afternoon in the backyard putting together a new format for the blog. It will continue to evolve and grow as will the neighbourhood.
We’ve had a great time getting to know all our neighbours in Ossington Village and hearing from you our readers. We appreciate everyone who commented and sent us feedback – even if we disagreed.
We love the way this neighbourhood keeps changing and love documenting the evolution of Ossington Village. Keep commenting, sending us feedback, story ideas, and other happenings in the area.
By Brians, on April 13th, 2010%
UPDATE – May 11th: Nicky informed me that this event raised over $40,000 for the charity! Well done!
The Painted Lady is a busy place, and Nicky Potter, the proprietor, has her hands full daily with growing and building the business. But, when she’s not running one of Ossington’s local hot spots she has been busy with a charity she holds dear : Friends of Noah Canada. This Thursday, the charity which helps children orphaned by the Aids epidemic in southern Africa is having a dinner and benefit concert at the Berkeley Theatre at 315 Queen St. E. The dinner is early and features a Afro-Fusion dinner by chef Nathan Isberg, formerly of Coca and opening a place soon on Dundas near Brock. You can get tickets for by calling their office at 416-557-4819.
But for those that can’t afford the dinner there is a great after-party and show featuring local musicians Noah Mintz and Pierson Ross and that’s only $15 starting at 10:30pm.
For those of you who don’t know about Noah, it was originally set up in South Africa to build Arks – essentially places for kids who have been orphaned by the Aids epidemic could go and get necessary service and assistance. Friends of Noah is the Canadian arm, started by Nicky, to raise money in Canada for this great cause.
It should be a great night. For tickets to the after party, and to support a great cause click here.
By Brians, on February 21st, 2010%
 This weekend the National Home Show is taking place at the Direct Energy Centre in the Exhibition Grounds. The show is absolutely enormous. There are over 700 exhibitors, and have a fancy dream home and such D-List Celebrities as Ty Pennington. The real fun of the show is checking out the new stuff around the show. I was there working on the booth for HomeStars, my day job, manning a booth we have down there. One of our local Ossington businesses has a full booth down at the show which I stopped by and said hi. 
It seems that our local supplier of everything from paint, to tiles, to lumber (everyone should know they have a big lumberyard behind, down the alley, where they keep all sorts of building material too big for the store) has a full booth at the show. They do more than just being the local retail location. They are also designing and building kitchens and bathrooms with their design centre.
On the HomeStars site they’ve got a good lot of reviews, but it’s all for their retail work rather than their design work.
I like all the neat tubs and hardware they’ve got on display.
One of the booth visitors:
By Brians, on February 15th, 2010%
On the way home tonight we saw this sign on a storefront beside Opera Bob’s on Dundas.
It looks a little small to be a full sized grocery store but perhaps a fine foods shop? The name of the store seems to be City Store, with small print below that says “Groceries.” Can anyone fill us in on what’s going in here?
By Brians, on November 20th, 2009%
With all the hoopla going on around how ‘hot’ Ossington is, it was interesting last weekend to walk down the street and see the reality of the situation. There are still a lot of places on Ossington not leased, nor will they likely be leased in the near future. Only 6 months past the moratorium it seems that the street is starting to close for business.
Below are a few photos of the recent devestation:
 Empty Storefront on Ossington  The Long Awaited Saint closes - is Joe Pantalone to blame?  Get Real awoke to the new Ossington Reality.  Does Ossington need another mechanic now that Rolly's will be closing?  A Fantastic Potential Restaurant Location - but no more (will I have to change this blog to be the DundasVillage blog? – or is that the next local target)
By Melinda M, on November 18th, 2009%
When an upscale travel mag like Travel and Leisure writes a glowing article about you, you have arrived! Congrats to our own Ossington Avenue then for hitting the bigtime. The article is titled Exploring Toronto’s West End, but only covers Ossington.
Along with Pizzeria Libretto, also mentioned are Watusi, Ministry of the Interior, Virgina Johnson, Union and Jonathan + Olivia.
Nice to see some good travel press about Ossington.
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