By SHANNON KELLY
Free tip #5: hit the public skating rinks (Photo: Cristian Bortes)
March Break is coming up soon, and maybe you’re hopping on a plane to warmer climes. But for the rest of us, Canadian Family has twelve great tips for a family “staycation”—all of them entirely free. (more…)
Can’t get enough of holiday gift guides? Dig into the 90-item whopper from TorontoLife.com, a guide to pop-up shops from FashionMagazine.com, kids books from Quill & Quire, trendy gifts for girls at Wedding Bells and a culinary wishlist from Ottawa Magazine’s food editor.
All done with your shopping? (Seriously?) Whip up some fudge à la 20 Minute Supperclub or just ooh and aah at the pretty lights in Torontoist’s decked-out homes slideshow. (more…)
News flash: Toronto is still occupied. And it’s five weeks (!!) till Christmas, folks: Fashion Magazine has 95 stylish gifts for everyone on your list. Plus, Andrew Westoll speaks about his experience writing about chimps in a Quill & Quire podcast; the chimp photos are cute, but Wedding Bells’ shots of 50 pets dressed in their wedding best takes the cake.
Keeping kids entertained on extended road trips is no small feat, as evidenced by the popularity of portable DVD players and game systems marketed to the under-12 set. Singalongs have long been a family friendly car activity, but these all-Canadian songs by artists like Bedouin Soundclash and Feist, chosen by the editors over at Canadian Family, might get mom and dad’s toes tapping, too. (Read: no Raffi.)
At the very least, they are less likely to provoke a migraine than the fifty-seventh repeat of “Wheels on the Bus”.
See the 13-song slideshow at CanadianFamily.ca.
Image by Klaus Hiltscher
It’s c-c-cold across much of Canada this weekend as the competition for the nation’s culinary champion heats up in Ottawa. Keep warm with a wedding chick flick or an award-winning food-centric read like Flavours of Prince Edward Island. Better yet, fire up the oven: 20-minute Supper Club confirms our theory that brie should always be baked. And, unrelatedly (we’re easily distracted by shiny things), aren’t Toronto’s new streetcars pretty?
This week it’s a double dose of cute, with kids in adorable Halloween costumes and designer dogs.
And it may still be fall, but Christmas is in the air: the update on Toronto’s Santa Claus Parade (November 20 !) and, for your holiday shopping pleasure, Google finally launches its Canadian e-bookstore.
Toronto’s best tacos, Ottawa’s top hole-in-the-wall eateries and, for Halloween, genius last-minute costume ideas (Karl Lagerfeld? Katy Perry? via FashionMagazine.com) and gross-out treats (CanadianFamily.ca). Top stories from around our offices this week. Boo!
It’s an autum-tastic at St. Joseph Media this week: Oktoberfest recipes, hidden Ottawa, a Toronto ghost map, Bridal Fashion Week and…watch out, Calgary! Boobyball is coming your way.
Going to Toronto? Love cheese? Click through Toronto Life‘s mouthwatering slideshow. Torontoist comments on the AGO’s new Chagall exhibit. Ottawa Magazine goes on the hunt for the Great Pumpkin. Plus more top stories from around our offices this week.
This week’s top stories from our SJM sister sites is fairly food focused, which is understandable, it being Thanksgiving on Monday and all. Still haven’t decided on your menu? Steal a stuffing recipe from 20 Minute Supper Club or whip up a mean Spanish omelette for Thanksgiving brunch. Plus: Apple’s contribution to fashion and this year’s nominees for the prestigious Giller Prize in fiction.
Welcome to the weekend! Here’s a round-up of the most popular stories from our sister sites at St. Joseph Media this week:
TorontoLife.com: It only takes $1 million to move to San Francisco—without leaving Toronto (slideshow).
FashionMagazine.com: As Fashion Week continues to its next hotspot, catch up on the inside scoop from backstage to the runway.
CanadianFamily.ca: Need a kid-friendly weekend project? Canadian Family takes you through glass-magnet making 101.
OttawaMagazine.com: Ethical oil is sticky business, Mark Bourrie explains, especially when Saudi lobbies are involved.
20minutesupperclub.com: It’s apples every which way, from soup to French toast—as usual, all in 20 minutes or less.
WeddingBells.ca: Barns, burlap, and baked goods (mmm…pie) are among Wedding Bells’ 8 essential rustic wedding elements.
Quillandquire.com: In an announcement appropriately timed for the harvest moon, Neil Young will publish his memoir next year.
Torontoist.com: Old-school is new again if the leak that the Blue Jays plan to adopt a new logo is true.
Kick back this weekend with this week’s most popular stories from our sister sites at St. Joseph Media:
Toronto Life takes on suburban sprawl in “Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city”. [Toronto Life]
At New York Fashion Week, Fashion Magazine snapped behind-the-scenes photos of models off the runway. [Fashion Magazine]
‘Tis the season of pears, blueberries, and cheesy broccoli—so says Canadian Family in “10 Tasty Recipes to Try in September”. [Canadian Family]
Ottawa Magazine contributing editor Mark Bourrie weighs in on the Xinhua “espionage” scandal that he thinks likely never was. [Ottawa Magazine]
Did you know quark was a type of cheese? Neither did we, but 20 Minute Supper Club tells us that paired with lavendar it makes a delish cheesecake. Visit the site for all five “Weekend Baking Adventure” cheesecake recipes. [20 Minute Supper Club]
Minimalistic and floral is the way to go in centrepieces, as evidenced in a vibrant Wedding Bells slideshow. [Wedding Bells]
Quill & Quire asks, “Does an upsized IKEA bookshelf spell doom for print publishing?” Well, does it? Read the story to judge for yourself. [Quill & Quire]
Torontoist reports on city budget cuts proposed this week, among them selling the Toronto Zoo, snow-clearing reductions, and—always a hot-button topic—increasing TTC fares. [Torontoist]