Features
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Final day of CONTACT
It’s your last chance to check out this year’s CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival as most of the exhibits wrap up today. The theme this year...
By Lindsay Gibb -
Gallery Guide: I_Wanna_See_You
It’s always interesting to see your city through an outsider’s eyes, and there’s an enjoyable opportunity to do so currently showing at...
By Dylan Reid -
Architecture Fetish: Bungalow Cool
Toronto is a city of bungalows. Though we’d fancy ourselves as a city of tall and thin Victorians, tightly packed together on narrow streets...
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Street Stories: Neville Park Boulevard
For many Torontonians, Neville Park means “Yes, I’m going all the way — unless I short-turn at Connaught or Kingston Road.” Thanks...
By Todd Harrison -
One Book: Photographing the city
To finish off my thoughts about reading Michael Redhill’s novel Consolation, I’d like to look at a theme explored in depth in the later part...
By Dylan Reid -
One Book: Living in the city
Back in February, Spacing writers posted a series of explorations and ruminations based on reading Michael Redhill’s Toronto-based novel...
By Dylan Reid -
TTC wants to install screen doors on subway platforms
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=i7rdsUa1MBU[/youtube] The TTC recently asked for RFP submissions on subway platform screens. These structures would be...
By Matthew Blackett -
Exploring laundromats
Last month, Spacing photography intern Christine Mullen spent numerous mornings wandering in and out of the city’s laundromats. These...
By Matthew Blackett -
When in doubt, trust Toronto
Yesterday evening I rode to the ROM for dinner at c5 up in the crystal. When I went to lock my bike I realized I had left my lock key in another jacket...
By Shawn Micallef -
Literally in Toronto
What do the novels Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright, Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, and In the Skin of a Lion by...
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IKEA decorates subway interior
In the weeks leading up to the mid-April opening of an Ikea store in Kobe, Japan, the Swedish furniture design giant has “redecorated” one of...
By Matthew Blackett -
Kudos and curiosity on the TTC
You may have seen these two TTC-themed ads on a subway recently (apologies for poor photo quality). The ad on the left is for the TTC Day Pass. We have...
By Shawn Micallef