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Toronto’s freshest homegrown restaurant apps – Toronto Star

  Whether you’re a fan of Steak Queen or Scaramouche, Torontonians and their smartphones are hungry for restaurant apps, and a host of developers are well aware of that. With India’s multimillion-dollar restaurant-finding app Zomato just launching in town, here are…

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The Weeknd Gets Carnal At first of Three Shows at Massey Hall

“Toronto, can I get on top of you tonight? Toronto, can I make you come tonight? How about three times? Four times?” A packed Massey Hall screamed with ear-bleeding, hymen-busting (not that I’d know) strength in a resounding yes as Abel Tesfaye,…

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Bloody Beet Roots break the speakers at the Phoenix – BlogTO

If you were looking for vitamin rich vegetables at the Phoenix when the Bloody Beet Roots rolled through town, then you had come to the wrong place. If you had a hankering for big, bloody, over the top beats, however,…

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Pedestrian Sundays return to Kensington for 10th year – BlogTO

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years that Kensington Market has been closing off its major arteries on the last Sunday of the summer months from May to September, allowing music-food-and-fun-loving pedestrians to roam wild and free….

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Electric Island turns on for Victoria Day techno party – BlogTO

The Toronto Island has had a long history of music festivals, from Toronto’s first Love Ins with the Mariposa folk Festival in the late 60s to most recently Virgin Music Fest in 2009, but the island’s been relatively quiet since….

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In search of perfection at the Toronto Wing Festival – BlogTO

One celebrity host, four media-industry judges, 10 restaurants, 600 tickets, three winners and 20,000 wings served. Such was the outcome of the Toronto Wing Festival held at 99 Sudbury. Our host for the evening, celebrity TV chef, Bob Blumer of…

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10 Must-try Street Foods at Arts & Crafts’ Field Trip – BlogTO

Public school will be just wrapping up for the summer, so what better reason than to take a little Field Trip courtesy of Arts & Crafts! Field Trip is their upcoming music/food extravaganza that will feature top bands from their roster (Feist,…

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Surprise Diplo DJ-set creates a frenzy at Uniun – BlogTO

    Hormones ran high Thursday night as hundreds of Toronto partiers flocked to Uniun Nightclub in hopes to get an earful of Diplo (Mad Decent label founder, DJ and rising super-producer) and quaff some sudsy Buds, Bud Light Platinum that is. A group…