Culture

Will Munro, 1975-2010: Toronto has lost a great city builder

Very sad news today. After a long illness that he fought longer and harder than any doctor expected, Toronto has lost Will Munro. Will was a cultural...

HotDocs: Soundtracker

Soundtracker, a portrait of audio preservationist Gordon Hempton, is a well timed piece of work. For the past few decades, Hempton’s self-appointed quest...

Hot Docs: Our House

In Our House we are introduced to Dan, fresh out of jail and newly sober. Homeless and no longer in touch with his family,  Dan is taken in by Derek, a...

Toronto vs. Manchester at the FutureEverything Festival

Next week I’m on a panel called Shaping the City at FutureEverything, an art-music-conference-festival in Manchester, England. FutureEverything, in...

Hot Docs: Disorder

Population density inevitably increases turmoil. Although the size of  a municipality is often directly linked to the amount of regulation and...

Hot Docs: Osadné & The Mirror

More and more we live in cities; more and more human stories are urban stories. But, of course, lots of charming, witty, and eager-to-talk people still...

Hot Docs: Citizen Architect

Urbanist films at Hot Docs 2010

Hot Docs 2010 begins tonight and runs until May 9. Over the next week we’ll be posting reviews of some of our favourite Spacing-relevant film. For now...

In-Site Toronto

In-Site Toronto is a series of newly commissioned artwork that is presented on the portal pages of several wireless internet hotspots in the Wireless...

Regent Park Film Festival: Call for Submissions

It’s film festival time again… rather, it’s the time to start thinking about film festivals. If you’ve got a story to tell and an...

WATERFRONToronto unveils Underpass Park

As the West Don Lands neighbourhood continues to take shape, Waterfront Toronto is being forced to reconcile with the unique challenges of the area. One...

Islands in the stream of consciousness: the people we never meet in Toronto

The following is a reprint of my recent Psychogeography column in Eye Weekly. Photo by Smaku. Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods, we’re told. When they...