Spacing Toronto

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Spacing

Lots of links for the weekend

We’re not sure how much we’ll be posting over the next few days, so here are a bunch of links to articles in local papers and a variety of...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Features

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...

By Matthew Blackett

Bikes

Regent Park Take II — The Bike Man Episodes

It’s a beautiful cold December day, so watch these three summerish short films from Regent Park TV following the adventures of Bike Man and his...

By Shawn Micallef

Events

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...

By Shawn Micallef

Community

Perverse Psychogeography?

“Psychogeography” seems to be generally considered a relatively benign observational activity — a random drifting through the city to...

By Dylan Reid

Architecture

Better Know a Building

To add to the long and growing list of individuals working on Toronto projects close to their hearts that benefit the rest of us, here is TOBuilt. Local...

By Shawn Micallef

Spacing

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...

By Spacing

Community

Reports of Nathan Phillips’s death have been greatly exagerated

Again on Saturday, after checking on the Spadina Thimble and meandering back east through the Queen West cardigan sweater district, I saw a commotion in...

By Shawn Micallef

Communication

The Tape

Last week we posted a link to the Globe and Mail story I wrote about the new additions to the Spadina Thimble — but we didn’t have a current...

By Shawn Micallef

Streetscape

A better street food scene?

Toronto’s street food scene is reduced to hot dogs and sausages — it seems the most variety you’ll find here is bacon bits at one vendor...

By Laura Hatcher