Culture
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All the World’s a Stage Part 2: TTC Musicians
Benny Lozano at Bloor-Yonge Station Last December, a Scarborough rap duo put out the video “I Get On (the TTC),” which received a huge amount...
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Universal Love Machine
This piece of public art is a bit of a mystery. It does not have a plaque displaying the name of the artist or title, which makes its origins difficult to...
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World Wide Wednesday: All the World’s a Stage for Street Music
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTlAC_DNG5U[/youtube] Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban...
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Nurture Nature
This is another piece of art located at the University of Toronto that’s easy to miss. “Nurture Nature” by Joe Fafard is located on a...
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Hot Docs: Roadsworth: Crossing the Line
We at Spacing (and Spacing Montreal) have written a fair bit about Roadsworth, the Montreal stencil artist, over the years. A documentary on this...
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Hot Docs: H2Oil
It’s safe to say that the Alberta Oil Sands have achieved a singular level of regard in the national imagination. Images of them proliferate the...
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Hot Docs: We Live in Public and Winnebago Man
In 1999, Josh Harris began working on QUIET, an underground bunker city eventually inhabited by 100
By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby -
Katyn Monument
“Katyn Monument” by artist Tadeusz Janowski is located on the west side of town where King Street West becomes Roncesvalles Ave and Queen...
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Hot Docs: Waterlife
The Great Lakes have about 17 000 km of shorelines, and Toronto is lucky enough to sit on part of it, surrounded by the largest fresh water deposits in...
By Jacqueline Whyte Appleby -
Hot Docs: Those Who Remain
Watching Those Who Remain, a doc about the Mexican families who lose loved ones to American immigration, I kept thinking about a Mike Davis book called...
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Hot Docs: Diary of a Times Square Thief
Like a strange peering glance through a keyhole into a world of rooms rented by the week in New York City of the eighties, Diary of a Times Square Thief...
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Hot Docs: Invisible City
The street-length rush line awaiting my arrival outside the Royal testified to the amount of buzz Hubert Davis’ “Invisible City†has been...
By Max Ritts