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First podcast of 2009! Let's celebrate that... by listening to an interview with Ben and Branko from Dinosaur Bones!

Featuring:

We Were All Invincible by Arietta
No Memory by The Hey Now
When All My Days Are Through by Jenny Omnichord
NYE by Dinosaur Bones
Love Is On Your Side by The Love Machine
Reach Out by Noah's Arkweld



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From rice bowls and onigiri to amazing blooming tea, Bloom Cafe on Baldwin offers lots of healthy lunch and breakfast options - plus a chill out space and warm drinks to get us through this snowy winter.

Get all the details and photos in my profile of Bloom Cafe in the cafe section.

noteTOself is a weekly roundup of some of my freshest sketches. Perhaps it will be your new BFF for your Wednesday middle-of-the-week crisis? This week i bring you a special on Leslieville signage. Enjoy!

Don't Drink and Toast

Toronto event listings for Wednesday, January 7, 2009:

Noah's Arkweld CD release
Since putting hHead and Noah's Arkweld to rest in the late '90s, Noah Mintz has been tinkering as a mastering engineer for "it" groups like Broken Social Scene, Hayden, and Death From Above 1979. Now he's back at the forefront, resuscitating Noah's Arkweld with a new CD, Names for Shapes that Don't Exist. Special perks of tonight's party include a free CD for those who contribute $5 or more (let's see how long that lasts) AND a one-song reunion that will "never hHappen again". Early-90s indie Canrock fans will be in the front row salivating. The General Staff opens.
Supermarket. 268 Augusta Avenue, (416) 840-0501.
MUSIC / 8pm / PWYC / website

Photo: "Nathan Phillips Square" by iliaa, member of the blogTO Flickr pool.

What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond):

The first big snowstorm of 2009 arrived and isn't planning to leave just yet. The snow and freezing rain are causing drivers all kinds of headaches, especially in the west-end, and west suburbs. I get that the snow and ice is notable and can be dangerous, but at this point in the season, we pretty much know the routine: let plows through, don't drive if you don't have to, drive with caution, etc. So do we really need the wall-to-wall coverage?

The lure of the iPhone is undeniable, and even though I still see more of them when I visit the States, Rogers was happy to announce they added 199,000 wireless subscribers in the last quarter. About 130,000 of those new subscribers were for iPhones, so it would seem despite declining economic conditions and high data rates the iPhone is the new iPod and eventually, everybody's gotta have one.

A slice of rural Indian life appears to have reared its ugly head in Peel Region's first homicide of the year. The father-in-law of the New Year's Day's stabbing victim has been arrested and will be charged with first degree murder today, in what the father-in-law appears to consider an honour killing. There are loads of (now illegal) Indian traditions that are still practiced, but usually in rural areas or amongst less educated Indians, neither of which are typical immigrant demographics. Goes to show how deeply rooted these traditions are, and like weeds, you can try to get rid of them but they keep coming back.

It comes but once a year and everyone has one. Some people lie about how many they've had, but it's considered rude to ask anyway.

It's official and they're not afraid to tell you: on January 17th, the Dinosaur Bones will be turning one year old and everyone's invited to celebrate with them at the Horseshoe Tavern.

I met up with two members of the Toronto indie band at Spadina's cheap-eats joint, the Red Room, to have a beer. While Branko Scekic -bassist- waited for CAA to fetch his keys from his locked car, Ben Fox -vocals/guitar- and I went over what the band has been up to in its early stages.