By Shawn Micallef
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Twitter, Toronto, the TTC, & Me (and you)
The first topic in my rebooted biweekly column at Eye Weekly is about Twittering in Toronto. I’ve written a few times about Twitter here, mostly...
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1992 Yonge Street Riot
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZtRw9II2s[/youtube] I came across this interesting find on YouTube recently — it’s an extended clip...
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Toronto’s sewers: love them or … ignore them.
Toronto’s sewers have been in the news lately with the discovery of a crack in a massive trunk pipe buried underneath the Don Valley. Should we...
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New Deal for North American cities?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–vlT1iGF0g[/youtube] There has been much chatter around the continent — especially as the...
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Ontario Travelogue from 1942
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSQEmgEm0gA[/youtube] Here’s a lush Ontario-proud technicolor travelogue from the 1930s to warm up this...
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Gift Guide: Toronto’s Distillery District — History by the Lake
A new book by Toronto archivist and historian Sally Gibson explores the Distillery District — “History by the Lake” — from its...
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Lake Ontario and the signs that regulate our relationship with it
A Sunday walk along a choppy Lake Ontario to deserted HtO Park yesterday presented little distraction from reading the many signs in the Harbourfront...
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Toronto Stories: The film
Billed as Four cameras — Four Stories — One City, Toronto Stories is an especially rare kind of film produce here in Hollywood North because...
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The sidewalk canopies of New York
One detail I’ve always liked about the New York City streetscape are the canopies that lead from building entrances to the edge of the sidewalk...
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The New Art of Suburbia: Panel Discussions and Podcast
An upcoming Spacing Magazine theme will be “The Suburbs” — we’ve tried hard to include writing about Toronto’s inner...
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Coach House Books show at the AGO
Spacing’s Shawn Micallef is the Blogger-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Matters blog for the grand re-opening of the new AGO...
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TTC vs MTA: Give me liberty AND fuzzy seats
I arrived in New York City yesterday evening and am saying in Bedford-Stuyvesant in central Brooklyn. At around 10pm I took the A Train into Manhattan...