By Shawn Micallef
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Event Guide: Cabbagetown-Regent Park Museum Fundraiser
The good folks at the Cabbagetown-Regent Park Museum are throwing a fundraiser at the end of the month. Currently located in the “Resident’s...
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The life of death in great Canadian cities
My psychogeography column in the Eye Weekly this week examines how death and location collide and overlap in the city. For a number of reasons notable...
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Event Guide: Toronto’s 175th Birthday — First Post Office benefit & other activities
WHAT: 5th annual birthday benefit for Toronto’s First Post Office WHERE: St. Lawrence Hall, 157 King Street East WHEN: Friday, March 6, 2009...
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Fort York Visitor Centre Competition opens
New things are afoot at Fort York. It sounds a bit strange to say that, but one of the oldest — that is, officially “historic” —...
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Keep tabs on City Council through Twitter and #tocouncil
Toronto City Council is in session today and you can watch the fireworks streamed live on Rogers website. If you don’t want to watch alone, and are...
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Toronto’s new-old is the new beautiful
My psychogeography column in the current edition of Eye Weekly looks at how Toronto’s combination of new and old buildings in close proximity to...
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360EXtEndEd wants your stories for Toronto’s 175th birthday
A new web-based community storytelling project has arrived just in time for Toronto’s 175th anniversary of its inauspicious founding in the forest...
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Building Storeys photo exhibit opens today!
Our friends at Heritage Toronto are staging a photo exhibition (Feb. 17-22) that opens today, and everyday, from 12-5pm at the Gladstone Hotel featuring...
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Improv Everywhere give 2,000 high-fives on NYC subway
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abt8aAB-Dr0[/youtube] Improv Everywhere, the performance art group that cause “scenes of chaos and joy in...
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Couch surfing in Riverdale Park
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_EX0AnSgQs[/youtube] Riverdale Park has been busy this year with the constant snow making sledding conditions...
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(Psycho)Geographic boundaries and cozy urbanism
In my current Eye Weekly Psychogeography column I wrote about the psychological boundaries we — Torontonians — impose on ourselves, limiting...
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Event Guide: Opening tonight: Building on History at Harbourfront
WHAT: Building on History WHERE: Harbourfront Centre WHEN: Jan 23 – June 14, 2009 OPENING: Tonight: Friday Fri Jan 23, 6-10PM The map above is a...