Dear Prudence: I was a virgin and now I’m a stud, but should I be proud or ashamed of my conquests?

With diverse tastes in an ever-expanding global marketplace of flavours, fast food's gotta keep up. This week, Menu-Mash-up updates from Pizza Hut, Burger King, and Reese's Pieces

• Subway’s ‘Flatizza’ sounds ridiculous, but it just might work
• Tim Hortons pushes ‘Buffalo Crunch’ doughnut at New York State Fair, horrifying, fascinating Americans

As a culture obsessed with coffee and convenience, it only makes sense that so many people jumped on this particular bandwagon, but convenience comes at a cost — for your wallet and the environment

The liquor store cashier with the strong Newfoundland accent tried to warn me: “Don’t go ruining that $100 gin with vermouth

• Fix My Drink: Whisky is for everyone
• Fix My Drink: Seasonal sips to accompany fine fall fare

Although food has never been a large part of Remembrance Day, cooking meals associated with the times, the places or the people you are remembering makes a thoughtful tribute

• Bonnie Stern: How to make sure the spice is right
• Bonnie Stern: Mushroom to grow

Food and bev­er­age com­pan­ies in­cor­por­at­ing the arts is noth­ing new — Per­rier has had a re­la­tion­ship with art­ists since the 1930s — but it's hap­pen­ing more fre­quent­ly

• With 200 pieces of city-owned art, some are bound to raise eyebrows
• Queen Street West garners international praise as one of the world’s ‘hallmarks of hipness’

These days, holi­day so­cial cal­en­dars re­quire a seem­ing­ly end­less sup­ply of party dress­es. From of­fice Christ­mas en­gage­ments to fam­ily fetes, there never seems to be enough

• Worn identity: Women in Clothes is a fashion treatise that emphasizes its women
• Women in Clothes, by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton: Review

Gilpin concurs that there’s a level of support missing from the Canadian fashion landscape — that we often fail to nurture our talent in a homegrown incubator. 'We don’t see fashion as an art,' she said. 'Most of my designer friends have left Canada'

My husband and I have been married for six years. He was a creative director with a good income, but once we got married we decided he would work on finishing his movie script

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