This new confectionery shop opened a few weeks ago at College and Ossington, and is sure to delight local candy enthusiasts and chocoholics of all ages. Whether your sweet tooth is partial to classic gummy bears, gourmet chocolate, organic sweets, or imported treats, there's most likely something here to satisfy your craving. Warning: any self-restraint may quickly disappear as you begin to feel like, well, a kid in a candy store.

Read my profile of The Candy Bar in the grocery stores section.

A chance encounter at a local record shop has brought Toronto-based filmmaker Alan Zweig back to Hot Docs with a documentary on fifteen loosely related stories called 15 Reasons To Live. Inspired by Ray Robertson's collection of essays Why Not? 15 Reasons to Live, Zweig interviewed thirteen individuals who had life-changing experiences, and inserted two of his own. The auteur who made a movie about his audophilia, Vinyl, and concerning misanthropy in the self-titled I, Curmudgeon, still has the stylistic streak of Bukowski, but there is the slightest hint that he may be taking his career in a slightly less inward-looking and autobiographical direction.

The 2013 CONTACT Photography Festival is once again set to land in Toronto. After its official launch tomorrow night at the MOCCA, the city will be dotted with exhibitions at virtually every gallery — not to mention cafes and billboards. Now in 17th incarnation, this year's fest will include public installations, films, lectures and workshops, mostly accessible free of charge and presented to an audience of nearly two million (it's still the largest photography festival in the world).

With more than 1,000 artists showing at 130 venues, finding a theme vague enough to encompass the incredible diversity of work sounds like a difficult undertaking. But the festival organisers once again hit it out of the park with "Field of Vision," which supposedly "explores the photographic medium as a way of seeing." Hard to argue with that.

Last year's festival was defined by the wonderfully ambitious joint exhibition between the MOCCA and UTAC. Entitled "Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces," the show was the absolute centrepoint of the event. Though there may not be a single dominating show this time around, there are still plenty of must-sees at CONTACT 2013.

This oldschool casa in the Annex has the potential to be a bougie paradise. There's a full-on nanny suite (because who wants to take care of their own children? Gross!), no fewer than seven bathrooms, and four parking spots for all your lambos and porsches, or what have you. This place belongs on Cribs, and is the perfect spot to settle down for a quiet, simple life in the city.

The DineSafe database certainly burst a bubble for lovers of Thai food this week. Pi-Tom's Thai Cuisine near Yonge and Carlton was closed down after a "failure to prevent gross unsanitary conditions." One can only imagine the specifics of a charge like that. They also had crucial infractions in the food safety department and an unfortunate failure to control a pest situation.

Other restaurants' infractions ran high this week, too, with no fewer than 10 for San Gennaro's Fine Foods and seven each for King Tasty BBQ and Kim Vietnamese Food.

Just over a week old, this casual taqueria at the corner of Baldwin and Augusta helps finally put to rest the once truism that you couldn't get good Mexican food in Toronto. Starring tacos, tostadas, sopes and enchiladas, the kitchen serves up authentic and well-priced cheap eats that are going to keep me coming back for more.

Read my review of Pancho Y Emiliano in the restaurants section.