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  • Corktown Cool: Tuck Shop Trading Co. offers classy Corktown toque

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    By Dennis Kucherawy Sean of Toronto’s Tuck Shop Trading Co. gives us his best “you better watch out” glare as he rocks a Corktown toque at Union Station’s Christmas market.  It sells for $38. It’s part of the company’s “City of Neighborhoods” line, says owner Lyndsay Borschke.  With 120 plus neighborhoods here, Tuck Shop offers more than 40 of them including the…

  • A Week of Merriment – “A Very Soulpepper Christmas” concerts debut this Saturday, Dec. 19th

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    Four concerts until Boxing Day – Saturday, Dec. 26th By Dennis Kucherawy SOUL & PEPPER: Mike Ross, Director of Music for Soulpepper, and jazz/blues singer Jackie Richardson. Seem them on stage as part of A Very Soulpepper Christmas starting December 19. Photo courtesy Soulpepper. “A soul! A soul! A soul cake! Please good Missis a soul cake!”…

  • eNewsletter: Christmas carol singalong at Sumach Espresso, 12 Days of Extension Room holiday cheer & more!

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    SUMACH CHEER: Corktown’s Sumach Espresso is decorated and ready for the holidays. There’s a Christmas carol singalong taking place at the cafe this Sunday. Photo by Dennis Kucherawy. Your Corktown, Toronto eNewsletter for the week of December 14, 2015 HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE LATTE: If you’d love some caffeine to add a buzz to your Yuletide…

  • Tomson Highway cabaret preview: Songs in the Key of Cree – Sunday, Dec. 13th, 8:30 p.m.

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    Order of Canada member and former Corktown Resident Tomson Highway to perform retrospective musical cabaret with special guests this weekend HIGHWAY MAN: Order of Canada member and former Corktown Resident Tomson Highway. Photo Courtesy Hugh’s Room. By Dennis Kucherawy ‘(Highway is) a master of the playful pastiche….his work is giddy humour and warmth of spirit, which…

  • Corktown eNewsletter: You’re invited to the CRBA Holiday Party!

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    Corktown, Toronto eNewsletter for the week of December 7, 2015 PARTY TIME: The big news this week is that it’s time for the annual Corktown Christmas Party! This neighbourhood-wide event will take place this Sunday, December 13 from 5 to 9 p.m. Our gracious hosts this year will be Odin Cafe + Bar (514 King East)…

  • The Dominion Pub returns to Corktown

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      RAISING THE BAR: Corktowners gather at the new Dominion Pub & Kitchen at their soft opening on Friday night. Photo by Dennis Kucherawy. By Dennis Kucherawy, Corktown.ca “At last my pub is back again…” – With apologies to Etta James Are-ya-open-yet-are-ya-open-huh-huh-when-ya-gonna-open? You can’t blame Scottt Ritterhaus of the newly renovated — under new management, don’cha know…