Culture
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How is your ward feeling today?
Social media and GPS are creating opportunities to map cities in many new ways. They also provide the opportunity to map city data as it flows in real...
By Dylan Reid -
Good Reads: Summer edition of the Friends of Fort York’s Fife and Drum newsletter
The summer edition of the Friends of Fort York’s quarterly newsletter, Fife and Drum was released recently. It’s a busy time at the Fort this...
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Unveiling the Bloor Viaduct’s Luminous Veil
At night, the Rosedale Ravine is dark. It’s so dark, in fact, that the Bloor Viaduct is just shapes overhead, cobwebby steel arches and thick square...
By Kat Eschner -
LORINC: Toronto’s connection to U.S. Supreme Court’s same sex marriage ruling
There’s a strange but compellingly human irony in that fact that last week’s momentous same-sex marriage ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court can be traced...
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Archival film of the 1990 Toronto Pride celebration
Today at Noon the City of Toronto kicks off Pride Week by raising the rainbow flag at City Hall and to celebrate here is a new video of the 1990 Toronto...
By Shawn Micallef -
MESLIN: Why don’t we do it in the road?
Toronto is no stranger to painted murals. From Art Starts to Mural Routes to the City’s StART program, we’re increasingly beautifying the...
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Richard Andrew Sharum Q&A: picturing downtowns
Dallas photographer Richard Andrew Sharum’s recent exhibit Observe Dallas 2015 turned the city’s exclusive art scene on its head by putting his...
By Kat Eschner -
PAN AM PATH: Summer of art in Toronto
Of all the events happening around the Pan and Parapan Am Games this summer, the Pan Am Path Art Relay could be the most innovative example of what a...
By Kat Eschner -
The TTC is the set of a late night talk show
A Toronto comedian is using the TTC subway as the studio for his makeshift late night talk show. Host Matt O’Brien interviews guests on the TTC’s iconic...
By Prajakta Dhopade -
Artists to take over Chester station newsstand
A shuttered Gateway Newstand kiosk in Chester station will be opening up for business — and it’ll be showcasing more than just candy bars. A group of...
By Prajakta Dhopade -
“Fun and frolic” at a Toronto double hanging
“The morning broke dark and gloomy, and with the first faint streaks of early dawn the workmen were industriously employed in making ready the...
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The grim history of the Ku Klux Klan in Toronto
Two men in hooded Ku Klux Klan uniforms flash Nazi salutes on a porch. Beside them, a woman with “white power” tattooed crudely across her chest stands...
By Chris Bateman