Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Street Style: At the Steers & Queers party
On Pride Weekend the Gladstone Hotel played host to the second annual Night of a Thousand Dollys (as in Parton). While the well endowed country singer didn't make an appearance, that didn't prevent enthusiastic party goers from dressing up in their finest drag, country and western outfits and Burt?
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Queen St. shopping mecca serves up local comfort food
If you're craving some high-end nosh while shopping at the Bay's flagship store, pull yourself away from the luxe towels and check out this glossy space from the folks behind the O&B line of restaurants, serving comfort food and Canadian-inspired cocktails. Read my review of Bannock in the?
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Sound Advice: Piss Suit by Caiiro Foster
Local "art punks" create a great EP with a ridiculous name.One doesn?t necessarily expect grace and subtlety from an EP named Piss Suit, by a punk band that?s named after a professional skateboarder. That said, local art punks Caiiro Foster don?t really specialize in doing?
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Wednesday?s headlines
TRANSIT ??Tanner Zurkoski is living in a car for a month to show how bad Toronto commuters have it\ [Toronto Star] ??DiManno: Subway-hugger Ford needs to look at Stintz?s visionary chutzpah [Toronto Star] ??Openroad: Rules for ?
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Newsstand: July 4, 2012
Carpe diem, seize the day and enjoy the oppressive heat. In the news: the PanAm Games needs to borrow your sporting venue; Toronto gets eighth place, but our win is tainted; it?s not a micro-loft, it?s a meth lab; 36 years and still fighting for a dry basement; and mosquitoes suck.Time is?
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Urban Planner: July 4, 2012
Today: get your karma on with free outdoor yoga, check out The Untold City's portrayal of street life, and catch a flick on the waterfront.YOGA: World Karma Project is promoting their motto ?Do better, feel better, be better? with free outdoor yoga classes. Bring your mats and towels?
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Nine
Magnets on iPad. ... Nine Years ago on this day I started this Photoblog. And the Tenth and final year of ddoi starts today. Thank you all for visiting....
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
TTC detours buses for Honda Indy, starting July 3
The City of Toronto is closing: Strachan Avenue between Fleet Street and Lake Shore Boulevard West and parts of Lake Shore Boulevard West between Ontario Drive and Strachan Avenue from 12:01 a.m. today, Tuesday, July 3 until 5 a.m. Wednesday, July 11 as event organizers set up, stage and?
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More service to Canada's Wonderland started July 2
This week, you have more ways to travel by transit to Canada?s Wonderland. Starting Monday, July 2, MiWay operates buses to and from Wonderland every day of the week. And, starting Canada Day, Sunday, July 1, GO Transit operates buses to and from Wonderland on a regular schedule seven days?
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Extra, Extra: Church Bells, Giant Eyes, and Fabric Sales
Every weekday?s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss. Local web designer Jim Bachalo has made a few short documentaries on Toronto-specific subjects. Particularly impressive is his latest, about the people who ring the tower bells at the Church of St.?
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Batman ad creep is a bit of a bummer
Without realizing it, you might have taken Bruce Wayne Manor or Gotham City Boulevard to work today thanks to some strategic marketing work by Warner Bros. Canada. Two official-looking Batman branded street signs appeared last week at two downtown intersections, renaming (or perhaps subtitling)?
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Scene: Euro Cup Party
WHERE: College Street, just east of Bathurst WHEN: Sunday July 2, 5 p.m. WHAT: In the end, it was no contest at all. Always a strong contender for the title, Spain completely dominated Italy in the Euro 2012 finals, turning what many expected to be a tight battle into a decisive 4?0 conquest.?
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Mark Pesci on life as a DIY concert promoter in Toronto
Mark Pesci's Toronto Punk & Hardcore Shows is a mouthful, but the frank name that local promoter Mark Pesci attached to himself back in the early days of Facebook is a good indicator of his upfront style. Want to get your punk, indie, garage or hardcore band booked through Mark Pesci? Make it?
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A brief history of early breweries in Corktown
As I noted last week, the earliest breweries in Toronto arose from a need to provide the city's British soldiers and Canadian militia with their daily rations of beer. By the mid 1800s, however, brewing in the city had really begun to take off and the industry was beginning to help shape entire?
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Scene: B-Boy Battle at Harbourfront
WHERE: Harbourfront WHEN: July 2, 3?4:30 p.m. WHAT: The Canada Day long weekend is one of the most intense in the city, with more fun things to go to than any one person could possibly check out. Joining the fray is Harbourfront, which hosts a b-boy/b-girl battle every year?The Call Out. The?
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Contest: win tickets to a Living Room Jam at Kitch
Want to attend the cultural experience of the summer? A one-of-a-kind living room jam goes down at Kitch on July 19th starting at 8pm. The event will feature live music by indie sensations Eight and a Half comprised of Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene and Dave Hamelin and Liam O'Neil of The?
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Urban Planet: Victoria?s Street Pianos
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We?ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues. In Victoria, BC this ?
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New Traditions at The New Traditions Festival
The first-ever New Traditions Music and Art Festival brought collaboration and creativity to the Island. And, hopefully, some new traditions that will stick around.Outdoor music, corn on the cob and sausages on the grill, campfires, and trips to the Island. These are summer staples that will?
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Toronto Fringe Festival Preview 2012
The Toronto Fringe Festival returns in 2012, and promises to draw a mixed bag of indie and professional theatre artists alike to venues and found spaces throughout the city for the theatre festival's 24th year. The festival of artistic mayhem plays out at 12 general venues, 14 site-specific?
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Less than a month to use GO's two- and ten-ride tickets
GO Transit is reminding passengers that, if you still have two- and ten-ride tickets, you only have until Tuesday, July 31 to use them. After that date, GO says, your best fare option is to get a PRESTO fare card. You can still buy single-ride tickets and monthly passes at GO stations and bus?
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Vintage Toronto Ads: Kipling Slept Here
The British author and poet received royal treatment while visiting Toronto a century ago.For its mid-1980s advertising campaign, the King Eddy highlighted its roster of esteemed guests. Whether Rudyard Kipling actually played with the title of one of his works to describe his stay is debatable,?
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Highlights from Toronto Ribfest 2012
The sun beat down on dusty queues crawling to hot grills and smoky fires. Rows of fold-out tables were arranged before a stage from which music blared even in the absence of a live band. In this parkland without pity, people stood under the midday sun for 30-45 minutes to exchange cash for meat,?
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Photos of 2012 Canada Day fireworks in Toronto
The 2012 Canada Day fireworks in and around Toronto drew their usual large crowds, and didn't disappoint. As is usually the case with Canada Day, the displays ranked among the most dynamic of the year. With several locations around the city offering fireworks, from Ashbridges Bay to Downsview?
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Pictures From This Year?s Pride Parade
A proud crowd marched down Yonge Street on Sunday, during a parade charged with renewed political purpose.One of the wonderful things about the Pride Parade: we see our best selves in it, as a city. It is both cause and proof of our sense of Toronto as being noteworthy, more than anything, in its?
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Street Style: At the Toronto Pride Parade 2012
The Pride Parade in Toronto is always home to one of the best photo opps of the summer. And such was the case this past weekend as we documented in our photo round-up of the event. Here's a look at some unique and stylist outfits that passed in front of our camera before, during and after the?
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This Week in Rep Cinema: Town of Runners, My Man Godfrey, Eagle vs Shark, Derby Baby, Picnic
This Week in Rep Cinema features second-run and classic film selections from cinemas such as the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, The Fox, The Revue, The Royal, Toronto Underground Cinema, the Projection Booth, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and more. Olympic fever hits the cinemas this week as we have not one but?
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Exploring Osgoode Hall
Editor's note: Spacing was invited by the Law Society of Upper Canada to tour Osgoode Hall and its new exhibit, "Fact or Fiction: Deciphering the Fence at Osgoode Hall". The Law Society will be running free public tours of ?
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Toronto Pride gets bent into shape with SSION
Whoever booked SSION at Wrongbar for Toronto Pride deserves a medal. Though Cody Critcheloe didn't bring any backup dancers, elaborate props, or blood-filled effigies along, his drummer and synth player, and his very own sparkly baseball cap and bright red jacket were all he needed to give lucky?
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Dyke March Takes Yonge Street
Marchers raised two things: awareness of their political cause, and giant plush vaginas on sticks.The day before the Pride Parade, a smaller contingent of proud people walked down Yonge Street, their vanguard lofting jumbo-sized cloth replicas of vaginas into the air, on sticks. They were?
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