Adam Vaughn gets tough on nightclubs - "[His] proposal would require nightclub owners to apply and pay for the a permit to use public sidewalks for lengthy line-ups." [BlogTO]

More pedestrian Sundays!

Spacing says Kensington's wicked awesome Pedestrian Sundays concept is having two babies: one named Baldwin, and another called Mirvish.

This is great news. I had never been to Baldwin Street before Dave started working there, and now it's one of my favourite parts of the city. The hippy factor there is a little lower than in Kensington, but still pretty substantial. As for Mirvish, well, I'll reserve judgment for now.

Orange Alert

This afternoon I dad an americano at Orange Alert Organic Coffee @ McCaul and Dundas West for the second time in three days. Tasty stuff.

I came home, and after a little Googlin', I discovered a review of the café on a site called Tupalo (tagline: "stuff in your neighborhood"), which is a city-by-city, user-generated map site. It's a solid implementation of an idea I've seen several times elsewhere (e.g. Google Local), but based on individuals adding their favourite places rather than adding a whole phonebook's worth of locations. For example, here's a search for coffee near Dundas that returns just four locations based on reviews by happy-camper customers.

Later that night, Borrelli, Liam, Dave and I made rowdy fools of ourselves over loads of delicions "meat" at Bo De Duyen. Maybe a positive review will go some distance toward making ammends?

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