By Shawn Micallef
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Detroit 1965
The above video was made as part of Detroit’s bid to host the Olympics, and if you have 18 minutes to spare, it’s worth a look. While...
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[murmur] is hiring
In what may be mild abuse of Spacing Toronto, we hope you will help us spread our call for an Executive Director. This year at [murmur] we celebrate our...
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Bathurst Street Bridge: A Virtual Charrette
We’re going to try something new here on Spacing Toronto — a “virtual charrette” — though it often happens quite naturally...
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Luminato: Yonge-Dundas Square now automatic for the people
WHAT: Silent Dance Party (part of Light on Your Feet) WHEN: Sat Jun 7/Sun Jun 8, 12am-2am WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square We mentioned this event in...
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Exhibit Guide: Cancer Connections
Those of you who have been through Nathan Phillips Square recently may have noticed a long rectangular structure displaying the Cancer Connections exhibit...
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Nobody Waved Goodbye
If you have Rogers digital cable I urge you to check out MPIX On Demand, channel 309 in Toronto, and watch “Nobody Waved Goodbye.” It’s...
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Ruins along the Scarborough Bluffs
Sunday turned nice and computers were turned off and left at home for a trip to (what feels like) the most remote part of Toronto: the beach along the...
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Heritage Toronto walking tours this weekend: West Junction & Yorkville Hippies
We apologize for the tardiness of this post — we hope walk-devotees also check Heritage Toronto’s wonderful new site for walk listings as...
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More thoughts on the Bathurst Street Bridge
Today Christopher Hume weighed in on the impending transformation of the Bathurst Street Bridge (aka The Sir Isaac Brock Bridge) that we discussed here...
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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this (food) wall!
Street food is in the news again, and it’s annoying. It’s annoying because it has been so bungled up and delayed that it has invited ridicule...
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New York – Robert Moses Freeway Express: Queens, BQE, Coney Island (Part III)
BQE to Flushing Meadows We drove an old blue tank of a Volvo on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to Flushing Meadows park in Queens to see the Queens Museum...
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Does Toronto need an Urban Centre?
On Saturday in the Toronto Star’s Ideas section I wrote an article proposing an “Urban Centre” be established here in Toronto...