By Shawn Micallef
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Public Space Invaders III: Call for films
Spacing is now accepting submissions for the third installment of our Public Space Invaders film night to be held at the Drake Hotel in late March. We are...
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Ice Days
There was some talk recently about skating on Grenadier Pond in High Park, and what the ice might be like. Today we discovered the ice was very cold and...
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Snow Days
Yesterday, the sidewalk along Dundas at the south end of Regent Park was covered in snow, four days after the snowfall. The street was dry as a bone, as...
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Goodbye Toro
As magazines go, Spacing doesn’t (or didn’t) have much in common with Toro Magazine. We generally covered different things, though one could...
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[murmur] Winter News
(We sent out the following [murmur] newsletter today. If you’d like to sign up for it directly, you can do so here, just scroll down. Please check...
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If only Margaret Wente could have watched these in her youth…
We may have discovered where the inclination to spend an entire Sunday at TTC Camp comes from: the public transportation propaganda put out in 1970s by...
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A Sunday of immodest proposals
The Sunday Star had a few articles of note (since Tuesday is the best time to reflect on the Sunday paper): Why not shop the better way? Andrew Chung...
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Parliament when the ears hurt because it’s so cold
Sometime around 1:30 AM tonight while walking/running quickly up the super-cold and windy Parliament Street just north of Dundas, by the part of Regent...
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Urban Field Speakers Series: Notions of public time
The Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, in association with the Visible City Project, is hosting a series of talks on how art can transform the...
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Toronto Diaspora
In this photo, taken last September, a proud former Torontonian spreads the royalty-free Gospel of Toronto Iconography in the tourist town of Bugibba...
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Where in the GTA?
In its march of progress, Toronto and the GTA have consumed many small Ontario towns and knitted them together in one big sprawling quilt. There are still...
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We are an intersection
There has a lot of discussion about the new Live With Culture ads that are playing in various US alternative weeklies. City Hall on Friday saw a media...