History
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It was twenty-seven years ago today…
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm68UteL0M[/youtube] …that John Lennon was killed in New York. There are many memorials to Lennon on YouTube...
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Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...
By Shawn Micallef -
GIFT GUIDE: Fort York — A Short History and Guide
Toronto Culture division has just published “Fort York: A Short History and Guide.” Written by historian (and Chief Curator of Toronto...
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Cultural guerrillas restore Paris’ Pantheon clock
Here in Toronto, we like to revel in the actions of guerrilla activists who do things to try and better our everyday lives: the Urban Repair Squad...
By Matthew Blackett -
Taddle Creek Tenth Anniversary
While we at Spacing are about to launch our 10th issue next week, the literary magazine named after one of Toronto’s lost creeks is celebrating...
By Shawn Micallef -
Ottawa is 1978
I took the train to Ottawa a few weeks ago, a city I’ve only visited on two other occasions (once to write a story about the G20 Summit in November...
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Leslie Street Spit Quonset Hut
In today’s Toronto Star Ideas section I wrote about the Quonset Hut found half way out the Leslie Street Spit. It’s a neat architectural...
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Adaptive reuse — Detroit style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSV9BPiwzlk[/youtube] Detroit once had nearly a dozen magnificent 1920s theatres in and around Grand Circus Park...
By Shawn Micallef -
The dismantling of Detroit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6m98ZUcH-A[/youtube] The good people of the dETROITfUNK blog have produced a series of videos of their city that...
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A monument for “The Campaign Against Terror�
There was a lot of press on memorials and remembrance over this November 11 weekend — among it a mini-tour of unusual war memorials I wrote for...
By Leah Sandals -
Rethinking Redevelopment at Regent Park Film Fest
Though there’s urban development panels aplenty in Toronto, few of them have taken place in the neighbourhood that’s currently experiencing...
By Leah Sandals -
Concrete Toronto
When I was young the Toronto of my imagination was not Victorian, precious or gingerbread in anyway. It was concrete. Slabs of it. Along the ground, up...
By Shawn Micallef