Communication

The real Hug Me Tree returns!

The Hug Me Tree, the infamous tree stump on Queen West at Peter and felled almost one year ago, has returned to it’s original location. Since Nuit...

Moonwalking Dundas Square

Moonwalkers from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. When Michael Jackson’s death was announced, I never gave any thought to the possibility that Spacing would...

Detroit: Graffiti

Detroit must be some kind of graffiti artist heaven — there are almost endless amounts of deserted, empty walls across the city in neglected streets...

French fun with protests

The French are renowned or notorious, depending on one’s point of view, for their public protests, getting huge numbers of people out on the street...

Swiss Carnival in Toronto

Carnival  or Mardi Gras celebrations — the big party before the 40 days of fasting leading up to Easter in the Catholic Christian tradition —...

Anyone can be a monument — for 60 minutes

Trafalgar Square, in the heart of the city of London, England, is famous for its statue of Admiral Nelson (victor of the Battle of Trafalgar) high at the...

Fun with Photoshop, But Not the Way You Think

An interview with Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable on their 10th Anniversary

ED: Spacing is pleased to publish this guest post & interview by Montreal writer Alexandra Redgrave. This year marks the tenth anniversary of...

Some Good Art Shows for the Geographically Inclined

There’s always good art showing in Toronto–even art for the map-obsessed. But this is a particularly good part of the fall for some...

Walking Adelaide West

On probably the last warm day of the year, I went for a holiday Monday walk along Adelaide Street West, where it becomes a local street after Bathurst...

ELECTION 2008: Campaign signs in public spaces

Green Party candidate Ellen Michelson has decided not to put up campaign signs in public spaces throughout her riding of Toronto Centre. “Public space...

Religious protest of a different kind

  Most Torontonians, at one time or another, have passed a protest against China’s treatment of members of the Fulan Gong. But there is another...