Remember the heyday of The Old Spaghetti Factory? Massive as the place was, there were always lineups, and you’d eagerly await that call of your name … “Smith, party of 4!” “John, party of 3!”
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Roxanne Tellier: Cheap Eats, Hot Jazz and heymacs
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bandcamp, BC, Bill Parsons, Bob Segarini, Chinook, DBAWIS, El Furniture Warehouse, El Furny. Whistler, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Glass Orchestra, Humber, Miles Davis, mukluks, Pat Blythe, Pat Matheny, Roxanne Tellier, Shawn O’Shea, shotski, Tangents, the heymacs, The Old Spaghetti Factory, the Royal Conservatory, tuque, Weather Report, York on November 8, 2015 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – WHEN I WAS HERE
Posted in Opinion with tags Arthur Booth, AWOL, Bert Barker, Bob Segarini, Canadian Expeditiary Forces, Canadian Music, cemeteries, cemetery, Corporal Klinger, court martial, David Blanchard Booth, DBAWIS, death, Don't Believe a Word I Say, England, France, ghetto, Gladys Booth Winter Smithson, grave, gravestone, Irish, Irish Potato Famine, Jaimie Vernon, Marjorie Barker, MASH, Northamptonshire, Paul Blart Mall Cop, Pine Hills Cemetery, Richard Herbert Smithson, Robert Winter, Security Guard, Steiner Avenue, The Barkers, The Booths, The Vernons, Toronto, William Barker, World War 1, York, Yorkshire on March 21, 2015 by segarini
March 9th was an auspicious occasion. It was my sixth month as Verm Blart: Cemetery Cop and it would have been the 99th birthday of my maternal grandmother Marjorie Barker. As hard as it is to believe, these two things are connected. Bear with me and I’ll explain.
JAIMIE VERNON – Toronto the Good?
Posted in Opinion with tags Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dundas Square, East York, Eaton Centre, Ed Mirvish, Jaimie Vernon, Massey Hall, mayor, music, North York, restaurants, Rob Ford, Scarborough, Theatre, Toronto, Vintage Toronto, York on November 17, 2013 by segarini
I am a Torontonian. I was born in East York at East General Hospital 50 years ago this coming Tuesday and raised in Scarborough – both originally neighbouring boroughs of Toronto. I’ve always considered these places suburbs of Toronto anyway and it was made official when they were amalgamated into the new City of Toronto in 1998. I worked for the City of Scarborough for 12 years leading up to the annexing of all the Metropolitan Toronto territories (which also 
included North York, York, and Etobicoke). 44 out of my 50 years have been spent living here. I’ve lived in the shadows both Yorkdale and Cedarbrae malls, on the eastern leg of The Danforth, and in the belly of Malvern when it was still radioactive but before it became a hideout for drug gangs and a haven for grow-ops. I’ve communed at the wolf den on the outskirts of the Metro Toronto Zoo and gone swimming in Lake Ontario at the foot of the Rouge River.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 