Culture
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Slang of Buildings
Wherever buildings meet there are dialogues—I think this is what Galen shows us in these photographs. The framing of his photos directs us to a...
By Amber Yared -
You Never Bike Alone
Happy BikeFriday my fellow velo-istas! As usual, the bike-friendly folks at Alternative Grounds will be giving free in-house coffee to cyclists. According...
By Tammy Thorne -
A debate we don’t have in Toronto
We’ve all walked the streets of Toronto and seen some weird thing that makes us wonder if it’s art or just … a weird thing. In Brooklyn...
By Shawn Micallef -
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AqOTObjWGH8[/youtube] Last night on TVO’s Saturday Night at the Movies — one of the best curated film...
By Shawn Micallef -
Design thinkers: Day one
DESIGN THINKERS CONFERENCE — Janine James has a tip for every city that wants to become more sustainable: start with a vision and the rest will...
By Jessica Hume -
Cultural Geography in Windsor
For our Windsor readers and those who may be heading to the Sun Parlour of Canada this weekend, there is a symposium on the cultural geography of the...
By Shawn Micallef -
The rumblings of Lower Bay
Spacing contributor Carolyn Tripp writes about Kristen Roos’ sound installation in Lower Bay as part of Nuit Blanche. – – –...
By Spacing -
Toronto sets up camp in New York
Last year at the first Nuit Blanche — the one where people only complained about the rain — you may remember seeing Thom Sokoloski’s The...
By Shawn Micallef -
Nuit Blanche in three minutes and twenty-six seconds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AeEvBJIffs[/youtube] Spacing contributor Jessica Wolfe made a “short and rough” composition of her...
By Shawn Micallef -
Toronto is the black sheep of the White Nights
Nuit Blanche has come and gone and proved once again to be a wonderful evening for thousands of participants. And once again, the event has triggered...
By Dave Meslin -
Nuit Blanche Interactive Alchemy
To further complicate and overload what will likely be the busiest (and hopefully again most wonderful) night of the year in Toronto, I suggest you make a...
By Shawn Micallef -
Challenge: What’s better than a parking lot?
My gut reaction to the question “What’s better than a parking lot?” is naturally, “Anything.” But let’s get a little...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler