By Shawn Micallef
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Better Know a Building
To add to the long and growing list of individuals working on Toronto projects close to their hearts that benefit the rest of us, here is TOBuilt. Local...
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Reports of Nathan Phillips’s death have been greatly exagerated
Again on Saturday, after checking on the Spadina Thimble and meandering back east through the Queen West cardigan sweater district, I saw a commotion in...
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The Tape
Last week we posted a link to the Globe and Mail story I wrote about the new additions to the Spadina Thimble — but we didn’t have a current...
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Regent Park Take I
The folks at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media...
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NY Times has ideas
In today’s NY Times magazine they look at 74 ideas that were talked about over the past year. Some are weird — like the comb that listens and...
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Walking from JFK
In today’s New York Times there is an article on a walk English author Will Self took from JFK into Manhatten. It took him six hours. Self is a...
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To Suburbia
Today’s National Post Toronto Magazine has a series of 5 articles on evolving neighbourhoods in the city, including the Oakwood neighbourhood north...
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NYC to Illegal Ads: Drop Dead
Often when discussing that perhaps ads don’t belong on every surface of our city there are usually folks who say that Toronto needs ads-a-plenty and...
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Goodbye Stump (Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em)
The scene Monday in front of Scotiabank Centre was loud. The Murray Demolition company (I always wonder what the omnipresent Toronto demolisher Murray...
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Carlton Canyon
The walk west on Carlton has changed over the past year and become quite a nice and cozy canyon. The addition of the new glass condo just east of Yonge...
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Funniest Election Moments
My two favorite moments during the election were: • At the Who Runs This Town debate at St. Lawrence Centre — the one with all the candidates...
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The Kids are Alright
(Image of the Wyld-Darling building on Bay Street, after the 1904 fire — via Toronto Archives) John Barber’s Globe column today, A city in...