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Holy Public Dancing Interventions, Batman!
Gillian Wearing, what have you wrought? Ever since you decided to spontaneously dance in a shopping mall back in 1994, and record it for a video piece...
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BARBER: Serious Land Dispute on Islands Brewing
John Barber’s column (registered users or Google News search) in The Globe & Mail today discusses the increasing volume of a voice that has been...
By Ian Malczewski -
More high-occupancy lanes coming to highways
The Toronto Star is reporting today that the Ontario government will announce major plans to expand the high-occupancy vehicle lanes. In early 2007, the...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Leah Sandals -
Regent Park Take I
The folks at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre have been around since 1989 as a not-for-profit organization that gets area kids involved in media...
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Regent Park Revitalization Screening Thursday Night
Revitalization is a word that sure sounds good; but is the phenomenon the city’s calling “revitalization” over at Regent Park really a...
By Leah Sandals -
Chainlink Beautiful?
The new “Bennet Gates” at the south end of Philosopher’s Walk on the University of Toronto campus recently won a “Clean and...
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Thimble art starts to measure up
Spacing‘s very own Shawn Micallef had a piece about the thimble public art piece found at the northeast corner of Richmond and Spadina in the...
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Monday’s links to weekend articles
This is the best photo of Toronto I have seen in a long time. It was posted in Torontoist’s Flickr Pool and is making the rounds on the internet...
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“We’re all pedestrians” campaign wins award
While we at Spacing have serious beefs with outdoor advertising, we do have a sense of humour and can appreciate creativity when we see it. So kudos to...
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NY Times has ideas
In today’s NY Times magazine they look at 74 ideas that were talked about over the past year. Some are weird — like the comb that listens and...
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Yer Alt-weekly round up
Mike Smith writes about the first meeting of Toronto’s new city council in this week’s NOW. The meeting itself was uneventful, says Smith. Of...
By Spacing
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered