One Downtown resident and long-time supply teacher is turning his experience interacting with kids into an exciting piece of fiction targeted at the curious children and young adults. Queen’s Quay and Spadina resident Randy Coates has taught students from kindergarten ...
Read More »Mixed bag of Corktown art from ukes to theatres
The Corktown Residents’ and Business Association (CRBA) put together an innovative program for their first monthly meeting of 2013 on Jan. 8. The gathering (at the Dominion on Queen) was the offspring of the CRBA’s Arts and Culture Committee headed ...
Read More »Identifying Flaws and Faults in Wine
Whether at home or at a restaurant, analyzing wine is a fairly straightforward process. And when you stick your nose in a glass of wine, you’ll typically encounter pleasant aromas like fruits, flowers, and spices. Sometimes, though, a wine will ...
Read More »An art display versus parks & trails in Downtown TO?
At stake is the fate of the historic and still-operative Walks and Gardens Trust which was initiated in 1818. To bring that long history to its immediate present: We’ve been sold out. Or, if you prefer, perhaps hundreds of millions ...
Read More »Class clown grows into second career on Second City stage
Awarded the title of Class Clown at prom, Jason DeRosse has always been a funny man. DeRosse never planned to be a comedian for a career, but he instantly quit his job in advertising after producers of Second City recognized ...
Read More »1900s architect firm introduced Beaux-Arts to Toronto
There is a proposal to remodel one of New York City’s most celebrated landmark buildings, the NYC Public Library on Fifth Avenue. It’s a magnificent structure as famous as the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty. Built in ...
Read More »Colourful Queen and Bathurst sounds recorded for posterity
Dennis Hanagan – A Parkdale theatre and media company has produced an audio documentary about the lives of street people who hang out at Queen and Bathurst streets and those who work in the shops there. “It’s quite a diverse ...
Read More »Huge Mirvish towers raise other developers 90-storey proposal for Front St.
Kimberly Spice – The precedent-setting Mirvish proposal for 266 to 322 King St. W.—which consists of three towers, 84-storeys, 86-storeys, and 82-storeys—has prompted local councillor Adam Vaughan to implement a stronghold approach to the continual density explosion in the Downtown ...
Read More »In Memoriam: Musician, St. Lawrence resident Sid Dolgay
Dwight Peters – Canada and the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood lost one of their musical icons with the recent passing of Sid Dolgay.While most associated with his unique mandocello and the band The Travellers, Dolgay’s musical influence was much, much greater. ...
Read More »Irish drinkers overtake a sober historic British institution
Bruce Bell – Between the years 1955 and 1975 some 20 000 of Toronto’s oldest buildings were demolished in an effort to “modernize” the Downtown core. Sadly only a handful of imposing structures were left standing after miraculously escaping the ...
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