A round-up of this week's top stories at TheGridTO.com, plus a few you may have missed.
1. Whether you think it’s the idyllic site of 12-hour dance marathons or a dingy basement full of stinky, bug-eyed ravers, one thing is for sure: There is no venue in Toronto with a more ironic name than The Comfort Zone.
2. Our weekly Dating Diaries are consistently one of the most popular features here at TheGridTO.com—so it’s no surprise that you lapped up a whole issue devoted to the subject.
3. It’s depressing to think that this city may never again experience the comfortably numbing joy that is Laser Floyd.
4. Do you believe that houses in Toronto cost too much and the condos are too small? May we can suggest a slightly happy medium?
5. As easy as it is to depict Rob Ford as an SUV-dependent ignoramus, the man is willing to take the occasional stroll…
6. …if only to get even further away from Karen Stintz as possible.
7. We here at The Grid pride ourselves on our community-service work—like going to DJ Pauly D gigs so you don’t have to.
8. New Weekly Series Alert! For our recently introduced feature YYZ >, Kate Carraway talks to expat Torontonians around the world about what they miss—or don’t—about their former home. In this inaugural edition, Nadja Sayej—host of online TV series ArtStars*—explains how Berlin is just like Toronto… in 1994.
9. Hey guys, getting your significant other a bouquet of roses for Valentine’s Day doesn’t make you romantic, it makes you predictable. Trust us, these people would know.
10. Hogtown? Nah—it implies we’re all obese. The Big Smoke? Has too much of a lung-cancer connotation. T-dot? That’s just a lazy abbreviation of the already unimaginative “T.O.” So, in lieu of a cooler nickname, Toronto shall henceforth be known as Spring Roll City.
