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Post Christmas Self-Gift Tip: College Street
Christmas is done so you probably have money from Grand Ma or Weird Uncle to go “buy a present for yourself” because “you are too hard...
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Merry Christmess, from Zanta
Thanks to BlogTO for this tip — at Queen West and Gladstone (one block east of Dufferin), someone has either paid for a Zanta billboard or has...
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Last-minute gift tip: New Orleans Bicycles
Spacing contributor and Toronto photoblogging celeb Rannie Turingan will be filled with envy when he sees the book New Orleans Bicycles [ Mark Batty...
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Last-minute gift tip: Metropolitan World Atlas
Some of you may be sitting at your desk today trying to kill time for the rest of the day so you can get out from behind your desk and finish up your...
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Bright and Fuzzy Lights in the Big City
When my sister and I were kids we would ride around Windsor in the back seats of our parents’ cars and rate Christmas displays as we passed them. If...
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SPACING: Buy our 2007 calendar and holiday gift pack!
Spacing is happy to announce two special offers. First off: we’ve got calendars! Grab yourself a Spacing 2007 calendar that showcases some of the...
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Books for public space lovers to give and receive
Hark, what’s that earth-shaking cacophany echoing past yonder half-finished condo developments and through the halls of municipal committee...
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Art Attack Meeting Tonight @ Metro Hall
I know some of you want to piledrive the Henry Moore sculpture in Nathan Phillips Square, but you’re going to have to save that for another day...
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NYC to Illegal Ads: Drop Dead
Often when discussing that perhaps ads don’t belong on every surface of our city there are usually folks who say that Toronto needs ads-a-plenty and...
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uTOpia Redux: The State of the Arts
On Sunday Coach House Books is launching the second volume of uTOpia, this time called “The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto”...
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Diamonds are for selling, forever
The Star runs a piece today in the GTA section about a group that’s trying to save an old ad on Weston Road north of Lawrence from being eroded...
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Are you voting for a Davis or a De Baermaeker?
The Toronto Public Space Committee (TPSC) has posted two illuminating videos on their website showing impassioned speaches on outdoor advertising from...
By Dale Duncan