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Cheap, quick, good eats
Sadly, I only have a few places that I go to right now (roughly) when I want something half decent and I'm hungry. They are:
Porchetta and Co.
Burger Priest
Burrito Boyz
I also go to Empire Schwarma once in a while, but it's rather far (I live on Queens Quay), and I don't find it all that good.
I'm curious, what are others' go to spots for a good meal? What am I missing? Can be any cuisine.
Burrito Boyz
218 Adelaide St W, Toronto, ON M5H1W7, CA
re: iMarilyn
I only go there when really desperate.. I had it last night... which is what prompted this thread.
re: JennaBean
What about Kenzo? It's not mind blowing, but it's a filling and tasty bowl of soup and noodles. Any Korean place that offers a bowl meal with a pile of side dishes is a great deal. There are some Hong Kong style BBQ places that can offer a plate with a couple of their BBQ items, plus rice and green vegetable. With a drink, you can get away for less than $10. I love pho and Viet specialties. Most dishes come in under $10. I think you can do well at Messini on the Danforth or Folia Grill for gyros or souvlaki, salad and pita. Any Afghani or Pakistani joint frequented by cabbies is a guaranteed cheap, filling and fast meal. I haven't had any of RaviSoups items yet, but they come highly recommended by a friend of mine.
445 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON M4K1P1, CA
138 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON , CA
Folia Grill
1031 Pape Ave, Toronto, ON M4K 3V9, CA
re: 1sweetpea
I like Kenzo as well and now that you mention Folio I may have to go tonight.
138 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON , CA
re: JennaBean
I have to add that the containers at the Scadding Court community centre (Bathurst and Dundas) have some interesting options to fill you up. The Monforte Dairy makes yummy grilled cheese sandwiches with a couple of different cheeses that change frequently. They also have lovely ice cream. The Magic Oven owner is there selling chickpea sandwiches and samosas. There are other treats there as well, though I haven't been since a few more vendors opened up shop. If that doesn't do it for you, head toward Spadina on Dundas for Banh Mi. Carpano on College is an excellent spot for panini at lunch or something more substantial at dinner. It's not cheap, per se, but great value for the money, especially with affordable wines by the glass.
re: 1sweetpea
One of the newest Scadding Court vendors is a Korean place. I already had a sloppy bunjo from the Magic Oven guy so only got a few snack items. Ordered the squid "balls" (more like patties) and a bbq pork belly skewer. Both were great especially the pork. And cheap! I think $2 for each order. Have to go back and try one of their meal sized items.
re: JennaBean
I'll have to try Kenzo and Folio. Will report back!
138 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON , CA
re: JennaBean
I'm kind of fish-and-chipped out at the moment. There was a time when I was going to chippys on a regular basis, and then it started to go down hill - and now when I think about fish and chips i think of the last time I went to chippy's (bad).
re: justpete
They don't just have fish and chips - they have some healthier options such as grilled fish in wraps... I've eaten them a couple of times and found them really tasty. Just need to be careful about the juice - the wraps tend to leak a little. Otherwise, a relatively quick meal. (And their fish and chips aren't bad either. When you're not tired of fish and chips, I'd recommend giving them a go!)
re: Manybears
I haven't been to one of a kind in years but you're totally right! Great cheap pasta in a pinch. Do order ahead! :-)
re: Manybears
also love One of a kind.. very cheap, but good homey food. I love their meat sauce.


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By gabe | Gabe's Declaration of Principles May 27, 2008 at 3:15AM
There are lots of reasons I love this photo from Eugene's Blog
As Variety's Festival scribe Mike Jones records Woody Allen during a round table interview using a cel phone, Eugene is using his iPhone to snap this photo. Mike and his phone record the musings of Mr. Allen for Web casting. Eugene's photo captures a moment.
In this instant, we see an old man holding court, both accessible and unassuming. Yet something from the subject's enigmatic past lingers as we are left to observe him through two layers.
This paradox--that Woody, is both exposed and shrouded--actually brings me comfort.
It reminds me how, during the auteur phase of his career, Woody Allen was something of an enigma. Intensely private, his productions were shrouded in secrecy, untitled productions (Woody Allen Fall Project) forged by a tight-knit crew who worked from only a portion of a script, the full details of any production protected as closely as the recipe for Wonka's never-ending gobstopper.
This working method--like some kind of alchemy--produced a string of works (at a clip of one per year) between 1977's ANNIE HALL to 1992's HUSBAND'S AND WIVES that garnered ten Oscar nominations for writing, (including wins for ANNIE HALL and HANNAH & HER SISTERS),...
La dee dah....la dee dah...
...and five Oscars for directing (including a win for ANNIE HALL) and performance Oscars for Diane Keaton (ANNIE HALL), and Diane Weist & Michael Caine, (HANNAH & HER SISTERS). While his prolific output continued--as did subsequent writing nominations, as well as acting wins for Mira Sorvino and Diane Weist, his post-1992 output marks a shift in focus for Woody.
This, of course, marked the period of the VERY ugly, VERY public break from Mia Farrow, and his subsequent marriage to sometimes daughter-figure Soon-Yi Previn.
The 90's were an incredibly ambitious, and creative period for Mr. Allen. Between 1992 and 2000, Woody wrote and directed the following: a murder mystery (MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY, which reunited him with Diane Keaton), two period comedies (BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, SWEET AND LOWDOWN), a teleplay, based on an old screenplay (DON'T DRINK THE WATER), a modern Greek tragi-comedy, complete with Greek Chorus (MIGHTY APHRODITE), a musical (EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU), two meditative self-examinations in the STARDUST MEMORIES mode (DECONSTRUCTING HARRY, CELEBRITY). He wrapped-up with an old-fashioned comedy, a la, his "early, funny films" (SMALL TIME CROOKS).
SMALL TIME CROOKS, the first of three films released by Dreamworks SKG, ushered in the era of the Woody Allen press-junket. In the 1990's in the throes of accusations from Mia Farrow and his wedding to Soon-Yi , Woody went on the media offensive from appearances on 60 Minutes) and to opening up his private life to Barbara Kopple in the revelatory documentary WILD MAN BLUES (1997).
By 2001, the demystification of Woody Allen was complete thanks to a nasty dispute with his sometime producing partner, Jean Doumanian, and a , brutal crew overhaul with many longtime veterans canned in cost-cutting measures.
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Woody Allen even made a surprise appearance at the Oscars, something he failed to do the 20 times he was nominated.
Ever since SMALL TIME CROOKS, Woody Allen has made himself for all manner of press: junkets, interviews, and public appearances.
(He stops short of appearing on programs like Letterman and Leno, possibly due to his own distaste for what these late night programs, where he was once a fixture in the late 60s and early 70s...it is worth noting that in a Carson obit, Woody Allen was quoted: "Woody Allen appeared on the show, paid Carson the compliment that "he appears to be most pleased when the guest scores. He feels no compulsion to top me.")
Even I was invited to participate in a round-table junket for CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION. The catch? In order to get the Woody interview, I had to conduct interviews with Helen Hunt (delightful), David Ogden Steers (wouldn't talk about M*A*S*H, aka "the Green show"), Dan Aykroyd (didn't he used to be the skinny guy?), and Elizabeth Berkley long before her reality television revival. (Who was it who said, "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television?")
This was also in the days before the iPhone. Hence, no cute photo of me at the table.
Is it possible that Mr. Allen is now over-exposured?
To wit, before the release of CASSANDRA'S DREAM, Woody made his obligatory appearance at the Toronto Film Festival, with a full-fledged press conference. The following is a sampling of interviews from radio, news and Web sources--from NPR to Ain't it Cool to UK's The List:
NPR interview with Scott Simon
A Cineaste Interview
Ain't it Cool News' Capone
McLean's in Canada
UK's The List
Premiere Magazine
Someone is having fun taking the piss out of Woody with a fictional Myspace Page, with "Friends" like Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Groucho Marx, Akira Kurosawa, and the New York Knicks...
Well from the suggestion of Soon-Yi, I finally decided to, you know, sell out and see what the hoopla is all about with this whole internet thing. To me personally, all this with people putting some kind of web page to, uh, introduce themselves to others is kinda, you know, despondent.
How much closer to Mr. Allen and his work do we feel now that we virtually can sit, at glass level at the table and hear him discuss the economics of releasing a film?
Do we feel any closer than in the stylized world of Woody Allen, where the line between art and life has always been fine?

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United Defense Limited Partnership, Ground Systems Division, Santa Clara, Calif., is being awarded a $7,449,896 modification to a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to exercise a partial option for 60,172 engineering support hours on the Bradley A3 upgrade, engineering and manufacturing development contract.
Work will be performed in San Jose, Calif., and is expected to be completed by Aug. 25, 1999.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This is a sole source contract initiated on May 15, 1997.
The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Tank-automotive & Armaments Command, Warren, Mich. (DAAE07-94-C-0456).
Government Technology Service Inc.*, Chantilly, Va.; Vanstar Government Services Inc.*, Fairfax, Va.; and Comark Federal Systems*, Chantilly, Va., are each being issued a firm-fixed-price blanket purchase agreement, DAAB07-98-A-V003, DAAB07-98-A-V004, and DAAB07-98-A-V005 respectively, together valued at $50,000,000, for general purpose personal computer components and peripherals in support of the Army's mission to enable a user to upgrade, enhance, optimize, and improve the overall performance of existing computer configurations/platforms.
Work will be performed by Government Technology Service Inc. in Chantilly, Va.; by Vanstar Government Services Inc. in Winchester, Va., and by Comark Federal Systems in Chantilly, Va., and is expected to be completed by March 31, 1999.
An appropriation number and dollar value will be issued with each delivery order.
There were 17 bids solicited on Jan. 21, 1998, and four bids were received.
The contracting activity is the U.S. Army Communications & Electronics Command-Washington, Alexandria, Va.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Launching Systems, Baltimore, Md., is being awarded an $18,045,377 firm-fixed-price contract for the production of MK 41 vertical launching systems, installation support, and ancillary hardware for Japan under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program.
Lockheed Martin will award a major subcontract to United Defense Limited
Partnership (UDLP), Minneapolis, Minn.
Work will be performed in Baltimore, Md. (58%), Aberdeen, S.D. (25%), and Minneapolis, Minn. (17%), and is expected to be completed by August 2003.
This contract was not competitively procured.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Sea Systems Command, Arlington, Va., is the contracting activity (N00024-98-C-5363).
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[[caption-width-right:320: Counter-clockwise: Maora, Haine, Takanari, Ushio, Maguri]]
Ex-Yanki GenkiGirl Haine Otomiya's tale is typical of a shoujo series. She fell in love with a young man, Shizumasa Togu, as a child, and after a certain point she decided to [[NewTransferStudent transfer]] to the [[ElaborateUniversityHigh prestigious school he attends]] and try to win his love. Much to her despair, however, he is unexpectedly cold to her and claims to not remember her.
She ends up joining the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil student council]] he heads, and becomes both his [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard]] and his [[TheBeard fake lover]], anyway. Over time he appears to [[DefrostingIceQueen warm up to her]], and she befriends the other members of the student council as well. There are still many obstacles to be had to her and Shizumasa's romance, however - including the obligatory shoujo LoveDodecahedron, Shizumasa's strange and seemingly completely random [[MoodSwinger changes of heart]], and Haine's own family issues.
''Shinshi Doumei Cross'' (or ''The Gentlemen's Alliance Cross'', as it's known in English) is an 11-volume manga by Creator/ArinaTanemura (of ''Manga/FullMoonOSagashite'' fame), licensed by Creator/VizMedia and fully available in English. It's notable for being the first of her series to not include any MagicalGirl elements at all.
!!This series provides examples of:
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The Togu family has tons and tons. The way their tradition of testing the twins keep running, they seem to have a set at least once every generation.
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Kazuhito pretty much forces Maika to marry him, in every respect.]] However, he's still incredibly kind to her, and it's clear that he loves her very much. [[spoiler: And it turns out that she loves him back, after she regains her memories.]]
* TheBeard: Takanari makes sure to maintain one of these at all times, so as to avoid the female population of his school jumping his bones. He had one in Maguri, has one intitially in Haine, and Komaki briefly poses as his fiancee.
* TheBeautifulElite: The series is full of both handsome {{bishonen}} and pretty girls.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Touya]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: [[spoiler: The Togu family, full stop. The Kamiyas too, though they do get better.]]
* BiTheWay: Maora is attracted to both Haine and Maguri.
** Ushio, too, ends up with Senri and is shown dating (and implied to be sleeping with) [[ReallyGetsAround scores of boys]] - but the latter turns out to be a ploy for Haine's attention, who she's in love with. She even succeeds in guilting her into a (brief) relationship.
* BlackComedyRape: Sort of. [[spoiler:Haine and Takanari almost have sex during a trip, leading to Haine awkwardly rebuking his advances.]] Later, a distressed Haine tells Maora that she should have just told him she didn't want to, and he would have stopped. Maora then remarks that he wouldn't have stopped (with Haine) even if she had told him to.
* BodyguardCrush: Haine and Maguri for Takanari.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: By the end of the series, almost everyone--including minor characters--have a relationship.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Haine and Maguri deliberately act this way towards Takanari, when Komaki introduces herself as his fiancee, in an attempt to break them up. Ushio and Komaki are also frequently seen jealous when Haine spends too much time with other people, but it's only romantic in Ushio's case (who takes it much farther).
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ushio, towards Senri and even Maora. She completely defrosts around Haine. Takanari can also be said to be a male example (for Haine).
* {{Delinquent}}: Haine during her Yanki days.
* TheDitz: Haine. Even Arina herself remarks that she's an idiot. But [[DumbIsGood Arina says that's what she likes about her.]]
* DoesNotLikeMen: Ushio claims this for a good part of the series.
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: The Imperial Academy. (Even [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin its name]] demonstrates this trope!)
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Haine.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Takanari.
* HairDecorations: Haine, Komaki, and [[WholesomeCrossdresser Maora.]]
* EveryoneIsRelated: A vast majority of the entire extended cast is a member of the Togu, Otomiya or Kamiya family, the three of which are connected.
* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler:Haine.]]
* HotForStudent: Senri for Ushio. It takes some time for her to [[HotForTeacher reciprocate]].
* IllGirl: [[spoiler: Shizumasa, a male example.]]
* InterClassRomance: Haine is poor and Shizumasa is rich. Slightly inverted in that Haine is not poor in any real sense; she's just significantly less wealthy than Shizumasa. Still, it plays just as the trope is described.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Maika.]]
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Yukimitsu.
* LoveBubbles
* LoveDodecahedron
* LoveTriangle: The {{love dodecahedron}} eventually digresses into a triangle between [[spoiler: Takanari, Haine, and Shizumasa.]]
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Of a sort. [[spoiler: Haine is in love with Shizumasa, but the person she thinks is Shizumasa is actually Takanari, and he ends up falling in love with her as well but is forbidden from openly expressing this.]]
* LuckyCharmsTitle: The title of the manga uses "+" to stand for the word "Cross."
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Itsuki to Haine.]]
* MadwomanInTheAttic: [[spoiler: Takanari in the basement!]]
* {{Malaproper}}: Haine, big time.
* MayDecemberRomance: Ushio and Senri.
* MythologyGag: Two characters from Tanemura's previous work, ''Manga/FullMoonOSagashite'', make cameos - Mitsuki is mentioned in Chapter 15, and Jonathan appears in a panel in Chapter 29.
* ObliviousToLove: Most every character is to at least one other's affections, though the two greatest are Takanari in regards to Maguri's feelings for him (who is open about them to every other character, but goes into CanNotSpitItOut mode around Takanari himself) and Maguri with Maora's (though it works out for them anyway).
* OlderThanTheyLook: Haine's teacher dresses in a bunny hood and [[ManChild often acts like a child, including having a crush on a cat.]]
* [[spoiler: OnlyAFleshWound: Haine is shot in the shoulder and just shrugs it off.]]
* OnlySixFaces: In classic Arina Tanemura style.
* PairTheSpares: Yep, pretty much ''everyone'' gets paired off in the ending. Kasuga suddenly crushing on Kiriaki is particularly random.
* PaperThinDisguise: The mailman looks almost exactly like male Maora - because he IS him. Haine and Maguri failing to discern his true identity is pretty hard to believe.
** Deliberately invoked with the Warden [[spoiler:being the high school principal.]] Haine even remarks that his uniform is in the corner of the office.
* PimpedOutDress: Haine's dress for the dance.
* RapunzelHair: Maika.
* ReallyGetsAround: Ushio.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Senri taking an interest in Ushio due to her looking like the woman he was once engaged to [[EveryoneIsRelated (Takanari and Shizumasa's mother, naturally)]] is maybe just a little creepy.
* RomanticFalseLead: Komaki, seemingly.
* SecondLove: And ''how!'' [[spoiler: Takanari for Haine, Ushio for Senri (and vice versa), Kazuhito for Maika, Ryokka for Itsuki, Komaki for Kusame, Maora for Maguri.]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Maika and Itsuki had one when they were in school. When Kazuhito found out, he got Itsuki ousted from the Emperor position and basically forced Maika into marrying him instead.]]
* SheCleansUpNicely: Everyone is surprised when Kasuga shows up well-dressed to the hospital.
* [[spoiler: SiblingTriangle]]
* StraightGay: Maguri.
* StudentCouncilPresident: [[spoiler:Takanari]]/Shizumasa. The president is referred to as "Koutei" ("Emperor") at the school. Meanwhile, Komaki is the SCP for the middle school, with Kusame as her vice-president.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Kasuga can even make a gay guy like Maguri blush. [[spoiler:She ''is'' related to the Togu twins, mind you.]]
* TheReveal: The big one comes about partway through: [[spoiler: Shizumasa isn't Shizumasa. He's Takanari, Shizumasa's identical twin, who goes to school in his brother's place due to his brother's chronic illness.]]
* ThemeNaming: All major characters have 宮 (''miya, ku/gu'') in their surnames. This kanji means "royalty" or "palace" - fitting for their rich bearers.
* TitledAfterTheSong: WordOfGod states that the manga is named after the song "Shinshi Doumei" by Hiroko Yakushimaru, and just added a "+" for "Cross" at the end.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: Haine, when she re-joins the mafia.]]
** Also, when [[spoiler: Haine was shot]] in Chapter 46 [[spoiler:and just sort of shrugged it off.]]
* [[spoiler: TwinSwitch: The Shizumasa that we follow for most of the first half of the manga is actually his identical twin, Takanari; the real Shizumasa is chronically ill and can't go to school, so Takanari is sent in his place. Once the brothers start appearing in the same scenes, Tanemura shades Takanari's hair darker so that the reader can tell the two apart.]]
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Haine - as are most readers, probably - is shocked to learn Maora's true gender. It causes her some angst the next chapter, as she worries that she might've offended Maora with her (over-)reaction to this revelation.
* UnwantedHarem: Takanari has this in THE ENTIRE FEMALE (and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim some of the male]]) BODY at school, to the extent where he claims homosexuality and maintains a [[TheBeard fake lover]] at all times. Haine (initially) and Maguri count as being in it, too, though he never [[ObliviousToLove clues in]] to the latter's affections.
** Haine also had one - as is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] after Ushio's kiss, everyone in the student council sans Maguri had some degree of feelings for Haine at one point or another in the story. Shizumasa and Kusame do and did at one point, too.
* WhenSheSmiles: Ushio
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Maora.
* {{Yakuza}}: Maguri and his brother Yukimitsu are the sons of a Yakuza family.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Based on their appearances and the dialogue, it's pretty difficult to believe that the main characters are only 15.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Haine has a pretty nice ratio.