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Summer Lovin’
On the Danforth Magazine, Summer 2013 Did you miss getting a copy of our Summer issue? Well, here’s a digital version. Enjoy! Thanks to everyone in the community who helped out! See you again this winter. On the Danforth, Summer 2013 by DanforthMag
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Hot Off The Presses: OTD Spring 2013
Our terrific Spring issue is here and available now, FREE, all around the Danforth. If you missed your chance at getting a copy, check out the digitized version below! On the Danforth Magazine, Spring 2013 by DanforthMag
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Goodbye (Again)
…But We’ll Be Back! Sadly, it has come to that point in the year where On the Danforth Online goes on an extended hiatus. Our staff, the students at Centennial College’s Book & Magazine Publishing program, must move on to other exciting projects. Our Spring and Summer print issues will be coming out over the next few months, so keep on the lookout for those! If you don’t see them around the neighbourhood, don’t worry, we’ll be posting them here too. More good news: OTD.ca will return with a whole new crew this winter.
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Animal House
Animal Collective and Dan Deacon Live at the Danforth Music Hall By Daniel Polowin Fans of psychedelic, electronic, and gloriously weird pop music need to get themselves to the Danforth Music Hall, tomorrow March 9, to see Animal Collective and Dan Deacon. ***UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to a sudden sickness befalling Animal Collective’s lead singer Avey Tare, this show has been postponed to a date that will be announced here.***
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Breakin’ it Down
March Break Activities at the Pape/Danforth Library By Daniel Polowin Worried your kids are going to waste away their March Break doing nothing? Looking for something fun for them to do? Check out the activities on offer at your local library branch. Space is limited for these events and some require a fee, so call ahead at 416-393-7727 to make sure you get your spots. Red Cross Babysitting Course Monday, March 11 9:00 – 5:00 For budding sitters age 11–15, this comprehensive day-long program teaches everything needed to know about babysitting in a fun, interactive, and informative way. This course costs $50 and includes all course materials including a manual. Registration…
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Love on the Danforth
Wishing all the best to our beloved readers.
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Skaters Gonna Skate
Family Skating Party at Monarch Park! By Daniel Polowin The 12th annual Earl Beatty Community Centre Skating Party happens tomorrow, Sunday, February 10th, from 2–4 pm at Monarch Park Rink. Bring your skates, family, and friends for music, games, and fun. Most importantly, bring your wackiest scarf for the Crazy Scarf Contest. There will be prizes for most colourful, weirdest, and biggest scarves. The Earl Beatty Advisory Council will be providing refreshments: coffee, baked goods, and hot cocoa and marshmallows! Bring a mug from home! It’ll be fun for the whole family*, so lace up, scarf up, and we’ll see you on the ice! View Larger Map *Children under six must wear…
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Un-pho-gettable!
Vietnamese Noodle Soups on Gerrard Street East By Daniel Polowin In these long, dark winter months, with frigid temperatures and rampant seasonal cold and flus, there is nothing quite like a big bowl of steaming-hot soup. I have been a soup nut my entire life. For a long period of my childhood, as a picky eater, the only food that would make me happy—not chocolate, ice cream, or pizza—was chicken noodle soup. Now as an adult, I will still have soup nearly every day of the week. Sometimes at restaurants, if the soup is good enough, I will forego the entrée and just double down on the soup. No food…
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See Ya, 2012!
Happy New Year from On the Danforth Well, 2012 was good, but 2013’s going to be the best year yet. Wishing all our readers all the best. We can’t wait to come back in the new year with a whole more for you. Have an amazing NYE, and be safe out there!
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Top 10 Canadian Albums of 2012
One Great Year for CanCon! By Daniel Polowin 10.  Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas After a somewhat unfortunate decade, this septuagenarian Canadian icon staged a comeback in 2012 with a worldwide tour and this platinum-selling album. Cohen is at top form in this, his first album of new material in eight years. Accompanying the bluesy instrumentation and the smoky baritone vocals we’ve come to expect from Cohen are some of his most moving lyrics yet. Cohen returns to his familiar meditations on love, sex, and God but with the added poignancy of a poet in the autumn of his life. 9.  A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red Combining electronic, hip hop,…
