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Last night was remarkably encouraging. Phenomenal!
Ian and I watched as an endless parade of bicycle police officers, police cruisers (of all types) AND campus police were extremely present and helpful from 11pm until past 5am.
Although there was an unusually high volume o…
WARNING!! "TLDR" post ahead.
In the past FEW months, I’ve been one in a large group of victims from a growingly brazen and desperate bunch of thieves hitting the neighbourhood within a stone’s throw of University Ave. and Victoria Ave.
In no particular order, these are ONL…
Overwhelmingly miserable week AND month.
The passing of several celebrated and heralded people in our community including my REMARKABLE acquaintance Pat Noonan, a family friend and MASSIVELY respected Doug Topliffe, two of our beloved friends/customers at the bar lost their…
I absolutely adore when I get to book 30 shows in one day. New acts, fresh faces, and historically thrilling performers who haven't visited in years. Stay tuned. This has been a SPECTACULAR year for booking at Phog.
Ever since I got my bike stolen (many months ago) from inside my old apartment building, which was supposed to be secure, I’ve gone without. I had a really sweet road bike that I loved taking to the streets with. If anyone out there has a better-than-average road bike they a…
I have tickets for MOPOP this evening, and I’m not going. I’d like them to go to somebody who would really appreciate seeing St. Vincent and The National.
Assuming that people reply to this post, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to choose who gets them.
Fellow industry self-starter is in desperate need of a used keg-fridge compressor. The big ones that need to cool a whole room full of beer.
Any leads would be much appreciated.
When my father died in November there was one person in the business community that acknowledged my loss in writing, and with a flower arrangement at his funeral.
I wrote him a letter several months later expressing my gratitude for his humanity, his tenacity, and I explain…
Buck Markner and I have created a new venture in one of the most perilous neighbourhoods in Canada...
He’s renting his place out on a new website called “Air B&E”.
As a desperate parent, stuck inside for much of the rainy weekend, I’m humiliated at what I just paid for three kids (8, 5 and 2) to jump on trampolines at SkyZone for an hour. It’s more than my effing Enwin bill.