The Temperature: March
Our monthly assessment of all things faddish and fleeting
Fidelity makes a comeback, as mistresses and call girls become unaffordable extravagances. Long live recessionary romance!
Fast trumps fresh in many a cash-strapped Toronto kitchen. Suck it, locavores
All bronzed up and nowhere to go: Idol’s tinted host will have even more time for tanning now that the show’s been shelved for the 2009 season.
Alanis flaunts her newly svelte figure in OK! magazine. Nothing says “cut the carbs” like your ex-fiancé getting hitched to Scarlett Johansson.
Talk about fruitless: “BlackBerry” enters the Oxford Junior Dictionary just as “blackberry” gets nixed.
Adding irony to injury, inspectors say mice were behind an electrical fire at the Durham humane society that torched over 100 cats.
Let us eat cake: despite economic woes, Toronto budgets $250,000 for 175th birthday festivities.
Toronto trendsetters give flimsy formal footwear the bootie.
Snowmaggedon! After a disaster flick–worthy dump, “-mageddon” becomes the media’s latest suffix of choice (RIP “-gate” and “-monium”).
Bringing home the bacon: Toronto’s boys in blue are officially the highest paid in the province.
Dude, where’s my totally unaffordable car? Porsche pooh-poohs the 2009 Toronto auto show.
Black listed: low enrolment may force the end of the Afrocentric schools experiment.
So long, buck-a-beer. The minimum price for a two-four gets hiked to $25.60. $1.06666-a-beer just doesn’t have the same ring.
Photographs: Snow, mice, ring, boy, party hats, police hat from iStockPhoto; Morissette by Frank Ockenfels III; Boots from H&M; Mulroney courtesy of CTV
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