Friday, November 20, 2009

Shang Restaurant Turns One

Toronto Chef Susur Lee's Lower East Side sushi paradise is celebrating its one year anniversary with a sushi and dim sum special (Monday-Saturday, 5-8 p.m.), featuring half-price dishes and $6 cocktails.

Shang Restaurant
187 Orchard Street
(212) 260-7900

Friday, November 13, 2009

Jim Carrey Gets A Website!

The funny man brings his unique humour directly to you with his Twitter feed, bizarre visuals (an octopus and the Canadian flag share a skyline), early CBC appearances and craziness for days. So this is what it's like inside the brain of a mad genius.

http://www.jimcarrey.com/

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Tomorrow Is Remembrance Day

The Canadian tradition is to wear poppies and visit war memorials. But if you're sitting in an office tomorrow, sans poppy, then at the 11th hour (of the 11th day of the 11th month), the time the Armistice of World War I was signed in 1918, observe two minutes of silence to remember those who died.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

If You Thought You Didn't Have A Reason To Watch Glee, Now You Have Three

The Fox Show (Wednesdays at 9) has three super talented Canucks in the cast.

Patrick Gallagher of Westminster, B.C., shows his comedic skills as Ken Tanaka, the football coach who pines for Emma Pillsbury. Gallagher can also be seen late nights on Sundays in old episodes of Canadian drama Da Vinci's Inquest.

Quebecois Jessalyn Gilsig plays Terri Schuester, the wife of of the glee coach, and has an increasingly complicated hysterical pregnancy. Gilsig, last seen on Heroes, is no stranger to crazy, having been on Nip/Tuck.

Albertan Cory Monteith is the one to watch and listen to as Finn Hudson, one of the members of glee.

For all things Glee, including full episodes, video diaries, chats and more, go to:

http://www.fox.com/glee/

http://www.hulu.com/search?query=glee&st=1

To hear the songs from the episodes aired thus far, here's the #1 Glee Channel on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=leeloodoyle&annotation_id=annotation_767867&feature=iv

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Terry Fox Run - The Wrap Up

Last Saturday, 1200 participants turned up and the run is expected to raise $150,000 for cancer research in Fox's name.

If you would like to donate, make checks payable to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, reference #U09AGGTF and mail to:

Terry Fox Run
c/o Stikeman Elliott
445 Park Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Or you can make an online donation at www.terryfoxrunnyc.org. The website will remain open for contributions until December 31st.

Monday, October 19, 2009

A Bar Where Everyone Knows Your Name Or Will At Least Call You Hoser

Canadian expats (and those that love us and our beer), you now have a home away from home where you can while away the hours. Ontario Bar, in Williamsburg, is the latest genius concept from Andrew Benedict and Scott Frederick (a Michigan native who would sneak over the border for booze) of Buttermilk, Boat and Great Lakes. The bar will feature Canadian beers and whiskey and a jukebox overflowing with tunes from the Mother Country.

559 Grand Street, near Lorimer (718) 384-2835. Open daily from 5:00 PM-4 AM

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Kids In The Hall Reunite!

Your favourite troupe of men who like to dress up as women are currently filming an 8-part comic murder mystery series in Toronto. Death Comes to Town is the first television project for the gang since the show went off the air in 1995. The series was created by Bruce McCulloch and co-written by the quintet. It's being directed by Kelly Makin who oversaw the original and the KITH movie Brain Candy. It will air on the CBC in January. No word yet on where Yanks can catch it.