By Shawn Micallef
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Rogue city agency trying to lay waste to Dovercourt streetscape
It was with increasingly incredulous dread that the news of the City of Toronto’s plan to expropriate the Matador on Dovercourt and demolish it for...
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Removable Room at Guild Inn
When: Thursday, September 27, 2007, 7-9 p.m. Where: The Guild Inn — 191 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough, ON If you haven’t been to the Guild...
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Reminder: A play in public space: The Fort at York
Ed: A reminder about this inventive and original use of Toronto’s public space — we’ve been told some shows are already sold out. WHEN...
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Rush: Subdivisions video
I have never understood the full appeal of hometown heroes Rush. The Ayn Rand-inspired lyrics creeped me out sometimes, the music a little too technically...
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Lower Bay station infiltrated by Italians
On Thursday night film types descended into the abandoned Lower Bay Station for a TIFF party thrown by the Italian Trade Commission to celebrate the...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: My Toronto video contest
The deadline for the MyToronto video contest has been extended two weeks, until Friday September 21. The extension is due in part to requests from...
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The CN Tower is bigger than its record
This week’s Eye Weekly Stroll column goes vertical and pokes around ideas of what the CN Tower (still) means to us now that its 30-plus-year run at...
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Virgins do it better
My personal apologies are owed to swashbuckling tycoon Richard Branson and his Virgin outfit (and maybe to Bjork as well). On Saturday at around 1pm a...
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TIFF: When Toronto belongs to the world
Life in a big city means from time to time it belongs to everybody else. In some major cities and world capitals, like London or New York, this is a near...
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The Ribbon Project
Bristol-based artist Hannah Godfrey is bringing The Ribbon Project to Toronto: For five days in October a small group of people, of which I hope you will...
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Watching the Blitz from the beach
That plane above is called The Globemaster and it will be attacking Toronto this weekend, along with planes with names like Mustang, Viper, Raptor, and...
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(Don’t) forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown
WHAT: Chinatown plaques ceremony WHEN: Thursday August 30th, 12:30pm WHERE: Northwest corner of Nathan Phillips Square Unlike the sentiment of the famous...