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SPACING RELEASE PARTY: next Tuesday!
WHAT: Summer-Fall 2008 release party WHEN: Tuesday, September 9th, 8pm-12:30am WHERE: Canadian Corps, 201 Niagara St., south of King, west of Bathurst HOW...
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Spacing summer-fall 2008 issue coming soon!
While most of you have been enjoying the summer, Spacing editors have been sweating it out in our office putting the final touches on our upcoming issue...
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Westward Ho! Bike Pirates move to Bloor and Lansdowne
The Pirates have moved from their first home “across from the Beer Store” on Bathurst (above) to their new home at 1292 Bloor Street just east...
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Star reports on “dapper” Igor
Spacing has never been a magazine that discusses the merits of any particular person’s appearance, but today we’ll make that exception. The...
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Dale Duncan goes to City Hall
Dale Duncan, Spacing’s Executive Editor, is moving on from the magazine. Dale has accepted a job as a constituency assistant in the office of...
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City Manager resigns
Updated (3:55PM) At a media conference held over the lunch hour, Mayor David Miller announced that Shirley Hoy, the City of Toronto’s City Manager...
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ROM quietly raises admission prices… again
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum earlier today for a media view and was shocked to see that the admission price has quietly risen 10% or more across the...
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Banksy identity revealed?
It seems that Banksy, the world’s most popular stencil graffiti artist, has been identified. Part of the allure of Banksy has been the combination...
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“The street is an extension of your living room” Rethinking city streets at Streets are for Picnics
If streets weren’t lined with cars, what would you use them for? This is the question Streets are for People has brought to the fore with public...
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Fringe Benefits continued: “Informal Urbanism”
A key theme of the new exhibition Fringe Benefits (reviewed yesterday) that I found very interesting was the idea of “informal urbanism”...
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Exhibition Review: Fringe Benefits
The attention of Toronto’s “urbanist” community (myself included) tends to focus on the central part of the city, the old City of...
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Frenemies: Not Just for The Hills Anymore
Ah, passive-aggression. It’s the preferred conflict style of many an introverted arty type, myself admittedly included. Despite being a fan of the...
By Leah Sandals