The first six months of the overly long NDP leadership campaign may have been a little dull, but the final six weeks now under way promise to be anything but.

What will Rob Ford do now that he’s run out of election promises to break? Build casinos, of course. And so continues the gangsta fairy tale of Robert Bruce Ford. We’ll get to that slippery casino business a little further down.

It finally happened last week – logic trumped emotion. When all the information was presented, councillors of all stripes and from all parts of the city chose light rail transit.

Don’t come to former Hoof Café chef Geoff Hopgood’s ultra-hip Foodliner expecting bone-marrow donuts and suckling-pig eggs Benny.

Sharon Van Etten is your favourite musician’s favourite musician.

Twelve years ago, Wavelength started throwing pay-what-you-can music showcases every Sunday at the now defunct Ted’s Wrecking Yard, and they quickly became a key gathering space for the local music scene. Over the years, countless diverse Toronto acts played their first gigs, met future bandmates and tested musical boundaries at Wavelength.

After a major retail reno, M0851 finally made its move from St. Thomas to its new home in the posh Prince Arthur condo just in time to catch the tail end of 2011’s holiday shopping rush. Its customers, an impressively loyal following who collect the Montreal-based leather brand’s bags, coats and knitwear, flooded the store on opening day, December 23, and have continued to make up for lost shopping time ever since.

Places to shop for furniture, accessories and everything else you need to outfit an office where you can be your most creative and productive.

In The Secret World Of Arrietty, a Japanese animated adaptation of British novel The Borrowers dubbed with an American voice cast, the charm of Mary Norton’s popular children’s story has been lost in translation.