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  • CBC Ideas — The Sounds of Toronto — Tonight

    When I had a discman, a favorite thing to do was walk around Toronto at 9pm listening to Ideas on the CBC Radio One. Now that I’ve switched to an...

  • A long and winding walk through Dublin

    Another week spent in mostly sunny and hot Dublin. St. Stephen’s Green was again full of people laying about on the perfect grass. It was observed...

  • Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel on telly tonight

    Reviewed here a few weeks ago during Hot Docs, Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel will air tonight on TVO at 10pm. Toronto’s landmark Gladstone Hotel...

  • [murmur] Dublin Docklands

    Yesterday we launched [murmur] Dublin Docklands. Poke around the website and take a listening tour of a rapidly changing part of this fine town. So fine...

  • Detroit Slumpy makes you feel good about Toronto for a bit

    Windsor blog International Metropolis and Detroit blog Detroit Funk have had an ongoing wager to see who will capture “the fall” of the...

  • Urban Field Speakers Series — Nelson Brissac lecture

    Tonight at Prefix Gallery in 401 Richmond, Nelson Brissac will be talking about recent changes in global industry (particularly mining and steel...

  • This will be the best weekend of the year

    A few weeks ago, in the little “God [or] Devil is in the Details” section in Eye Weekly, I wrote about the melting snow leaving behind a...

  • Plant a virtual tree for New Orleans

    This Earth Day, Seventh Generation (a company that produces non-toxic and environmentally safe household products) has partnered with the Seed Collective...

  • The star that obscured Hugh Garner

    Update (this originally posted back in early Feb): As one reader commented, this crane crashed last night — which explains why I saw a Wellesley bus...

  • Vimy Ridge

    An interesting fact about the square kilometer of land surrounding the Canadian National Vimy Memorial found on Hill 145 in the the Pas-de-Calais is that...

  • Hometown airbag

    Yesterday the wind was howling through downtown Windsor and the snow was fading the Detroit skyline in and out. There were few pedestrians to break...

  • Where in the GTA?

    On a recent Sunday with nothing better to do but drive a car around the GTA we found this perfect land of small town quaintness. Quaint is not a word to...