Culture
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Black History Month 2025: Racial Discrimination at Toronto’s Nightclubs
Cheryl Thompson is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Expressive Culture & Creativity, Associate Professor of Performance at Toronto Metropolitan...
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How Art Works
as dialysisdrop by drop, filters toxins from bloodbefore they can poison the heartthis venom, refined, is art. as antivenindrop by drop, binds toxins in...
By Derek DeLand -
UCS #39: The Broadway Plan in Action
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver...
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Book Review – Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Authors: Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet (Verso, 2020) Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet are established professors and urbanists who have significantly...
By Andrew Cuthbert -
S101S: Defining Public Space: The Basics
Public space is a dynamic and essential part of our collective urban experience. Streets, parks, plazas, and beaches serve as the everyday settings where...
By Erick Villagomez -
The True Christmas of Meaning
Holly Snolightly is a beautiful thirtysomething travel writer and the busy Manhattan CEO of an international Christmas tree conglomerate. She reserves a...
By Derek DeLand -
UCS #32: Not So Public Art
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related reading:
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Reflections on Art Gallery Architecture
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, and architecture about art is like lego about crayons, then writing about architecture about...
By Derek DeLand -
UCS #30: Public Hearings in Vancouver
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related reading: Spacing...
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EVENT: Strollin’ — an evening talking about walking November 28
WHAT: An evening talking about walking on November 28 at 6PM. WHO: Shawn Micallef, Spacing Sr. Editor, Toronto Star columnist and University College...
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Excerpt: Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Conflict in Blackface
Excerpted with permission from Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, published in April 2025 by Wilfrid Laurier Press. Thompson, a Toronto Metropolitan...
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NEW ISSUE: State of the Arts in Toronto
A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the...
By Dylan Reid