By Shawn Micallef
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Welcome Back America — bring your iPhones, transistor radios and maybe a boom box
Love them or hate them, Yonge-Dundas Square is surrounded by giant TV screens. Though we have debated the pros and cons of their existence (mostly con...
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Unbuilt Toronto launch tonight
We had a lot of fun putting together our Spring 2005 issue called “The History of Our Future:” all about grand plans that didn’t make it...
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Toronto Archives exhibit: 125 years of public health in Toronto.
A new exhibit at the Toronto Archives opens tomorrow called “An Infectious Idea: 125 Years of Public Health in Toronto“. If you haven’t...
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iPhone meets Red Rocket
Five years ago when I was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab we would brainstorm possible new media...
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Go public (and maybe private) on Halloween
An annual reminder that one of the best places in the city to be on Halloween night is on Church Street. It’s closed to traffic and turns into a...
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Welcome Back America — November 4th Celebration
Oct 29 Update: 557 people signed up to come out on November 4th via Facebook. Likely most are from Toronto — if you’re on board with the idea...
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Toronto’s corridor of power
On Sunday afternoon I walked this 8.4km stretch of the Finch hydro corridor (almost) in between the rain showers. The clouds came and went and came. The...
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Let’s rename the Toronto Reference Library the “The Jane Jacobs Reference Library”
The work and life of Jane Jacobs (wiki) has become closely associated with Toronto. Though she started out in New York — and wrote about cities in...
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Toronto’s First Post Office exhibit at The Market Gallery
Tucked in behind George Brown College’s downtown campus on Adelaide Street at George is Toronto’s First Post Office. Located in a building...
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Seen in Montreal
In the washroom of the cafe where we held our Spacing Montreal anniversary party on Sunday, I found this statement scrawled on the chalkboard wall. We...
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Will Self Walks
Prolific author-walker Will Self was blogging at the New York Times this summer for a series called Necessary Steps. Self was in Toronto last year to...
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June Callwood Park design competition
There’s going to be a new park in town and it’s named after one of Toronto’s legendary figures, June Callwood. It will be located...