music
The Ossington BlackOut Street Party
Ossington broke out into song and dance tonight with the Ossington Blackout Street Party. It was quiet to start, with bars turning off their lights and just having candles and acoustic music. […]
Articles by Brians
music
The Ossington Blackout Party – A Fun Night in the ‘hood!
Come to Ossington on Friday August 14th for the a fun night in the best neighbourhood in the city. Michael Johnson, the troubador of Communist’s Daughter, and advocate for less cars through his streets are for people campaign, is organizing a party in celebration of the 6th Anniversary of the Toronto blackout. […]
Press
FoodTV gives the Ossington Rundown
FoodTV has blogged about all the places. Just issued the second in a series which started June 1st. […]
Restaurants
Pizza Libretto Gets Officially Certified
Amid almost no media attention, just few owner tweets, Pizza Libretto got certified with their VPN (Verace Pizza Napolitana). […]
Nightlife
The Yelp.ca Ossington Avenue Pub Crawl
If you love Ossington and want to check out all the bars on the street (or a good lot of them) Kat, from Yelp, is organizing a Ossington Pub Crawl. […]
Parks
The Trinity Farmers Market
On this rainy Tuesday night, the first market of the season, I walked over to check out the vendors. The booths are somewhat scattered throughoutthe northwestern portion of the park near Dundas, but all looked full of fresh organic produce. […]
Restaurants
A late night meal at Union
Last week, after going to see Neko Case at Massey Hall, we stopped by Union Restaurant, Teo Paul’s new restaurant mentioned earlier. I hadn’t eaten yet that night and it was late, just after 11pm. […]
Nightlife
Can I get a damn Tomato? Soon, but it’ll cost ya!
When I was at the community meeting a few weeks ago talking about Joe Pantalone’s sudden and un-explained moratorium on new restaurants on Ossington, someone in the meeting asked why you could find lots of restaurants on the street, but you couldn’t buy a damn tomato on the strip. […]
Theatre and Art
Ossington Street Art
You can walk down Ossington on any given day and not notice the large amount of graffiti, or, as it’s called “street art”. Yesterday on a little neighbourhood walkabout I took a few pictures of the interesting art along the lower section of Ossington. Were there any good ones I missed? […]
Theatre and Art
The Rejects – The Ossington Art Alternative to TOAE
If you were feeling artsy this weekend in Toronto there was lots to do. We had Afrofest, the Fringe, and many other events. If you were into visual arts you’d probably want to hit up the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. […]