Media
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Walking on Thin Ice — 1981 New York
Just after John was shot in 1980, Yoko Ono made this video for her song Walking on Thin Ice. It was the last the song Lennon worked on and he was holding...
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My Toronto Video Contest Winners
The results are in and we have our winners for the My Toronto Video Contest! Overall, it was a difficult task — how do you sum up Toronto in thirty...
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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...
By Shawn Micallef -
1984 TTC Commercial
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqCTh9zyE60[/youtube] Makes me want to visit, but not for the “rare beef.” The lengths some song...
By Shawn Micallef -
Spacing Toronto named best local blog
photo by David Topping The editors of Spacing were very happy to open up NOW this week and find out that Spacing Toronto was named Best Local Blog. They...
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Move it along, nothing to see here
Alok Mukherjee, chairman of the Toronto Police Services Board, sent out a notice today to inform the world that he had started a blog. Immediately...
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Richard Florida blogging for the Globe
Noted urban thinker and expatriate American Richard Florida moved to Toronto earlier this year to take a position at the Rotman School at U of T and...
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My Toronto Video Contest: Last day to vote!
Over the summer months we asked people to make their own promotional videos for Toronto. This city has always been a hard place to sum up, and marketing...
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Planet in Focus opens tonight
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAgEeFv1TN4[/youtube] This week Toronto’s eco-film fest Planet in Focus (Oct 24-28) includes an exciting...
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 -
Animated Toronto subway map contest winner!
submitted by Drew Jones • view it larger You picked it! We have a winner in our animated Toronto subway line contest. Its Drew Jones! A few weeks...
By Matthew Blackett