Fun Stuff

Read local, drink local: Trillium finalists paired with Ontario wines and beers.

Ontario wineries and craft brewers got together this year to create seventeen creative wine and beer pairings in honour of the Trilliums, custom matching their products with the 17 finalists for the 2010 Trillium Book Award.

Coach House profiled by the Toronto Star

Coach House editor-in-chief Alana Wilcox and managing editor Christina Palassio were featured in a Toronto Star article profiling Torontonians on 'the front lines of Toronto culture.'

'No publisher has staked a firmer claim to its place in Toronto culture than Coach House Books.

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Thom Vernon's Reading List, 2000-2010

I am one of those jerks who survey other people's bookshelves. I do my best to get sight of a pattern or a trail: Books for Dummies, Nietzsche, the Bible. I spy for social comfort and to discover common ground. Books hold our private and public intellectual bodies. They are the infrastructure of our lives.

Phineas Walsh's most-desired animal abilities

Super Animal Abilities I Would Like to Have
by Phineas Walsh (narrator of Amphibian)

Sometimes I think about all the different abilities non-human animals have for finding food and escaping predators. Then I start thinking about how I'd like to have some of those abilities for surviving in my own hostile environment, mainly school. So I started a list of some of the animal abilities I think would give me a definite survival advantage. This is what I have so far:

Laundry Day, by Andrew Kaufman

The True Believer, while looking under the bed for socks, was surprised to find God. He was very dirty as it was dusty under there and since she was doing laundry anyway she took Him with her. She put Him in a machine. She was running low on quarters so she washed Him with a load of jeans, but she must have forgotten to check the pockets; when she took God out of the washing machine He was covered with little bits of Kleenex. This disappointed God. He wouldn’t look the True Believer in the eyes and He left the laundromat without saying goodbye.

Shoelaces, by Andrew Kaufman

One morning the Foreboding Man was tying his shoes. The lace in his right shoe broke. He put on his other pair of dark shoes and the lace in the left shoe broke. He changed into his light suit but as he tightened the lace on his left brown shoe, it broke. He looked at the lace in his hand. He looked at the laces on the floor. "I have to leave you," he said to his wife, but she was already gone.

Mr. and Mrs. Metaphorical Have Dinner in a Well-Lit Public Space, by Andrew Kaufman

The waiter, being clumsy, spilled an entire bowl of courage on his lap. He hadn't even ordered courage. She'd seen it wobbling on the serving tray but had been too far away to stop it. He jumped up and dabbed at his crotch with the cloth napkin, but it was too late. It had already soaked through his linen pants. He sat back down. He folded his hands on the table.
    "There's something I have to tell you," he said.
    "Damn it," she said, as the courage had been for her.

Fun facts about The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork

Toronto Farmers' Markets

Courtesy of the Toronto Farmers' Market Network

Appletree Market
200 Eglinton Ave. W.
Thursdays, 3-7 pm, April 23-Oct 29, some winter markets planned

BirchCliff Village Farmers’ Market
1512 Kingston Road (east of Warden)
Fridays, 3– 7 pm, June 5 to October 23, 2009

BirchCliff Village Indoor Market
1688 Kingston Road