December 2009
Watchtreeswithoutleaves:
slangtang
So rad.
As many of you probably know, Toronto’s Yonge Street is dubbed as one of the longest streets in the entire world. Two photographers decided to walk from the intersection of Yonge St & Wellington St (in Aurora) south along Yonge until they hit Lake Ontario. It took them about 14 hours to walk over 42 kilometers, while taking photos documenting the...
TORONTO STAR'S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2009 →
slangtang:
1. A Place to Bury Strangers, Exploding Head (Mute). Singer, guitarist and custom-pedal scientist Oliver Ackermann has been finding new ways to turn shoegaze up “one louder” since his days with Skywave, but in A Place to Bury Strangers he’s hooked up with a rhythm section finally capable of taking the whole My Bloody Valentine/Jesus and Mary Chain one harder. Yet amazingly, Exploding...
"I read somewhere that the buttons at crosswalks...
The city’s stoplight buttons haven’t been neutered to the extent of their NYC equivalents, which have been purely placebos since the emergence of computer-controlled traffic in the late ’80s. Here, whether pressing the button is productive or pointless depends mostly on which part of the city you’re in. In outlying areas, impatient pedestrians can take comfort in knowing their button pushing does...
(416): we did anal to Party In The USA and he...
Dude, Where's My Dumpling? →
By ADRIAN HO New York (from the Wall Street Journal)
Friends back in Toronto love listening to me lament the ways New York City falls short compared to my Canadian hometown. I’m glad to oblige, every six weeks or so, whenever I return for my fill of real Chinese food. Why is it so difficult to find a decent dumpling in this town?
And it’s not just dumplings. The modest steamed...
"What’s the deal with Captain John’s, the...
First things first: Captain John is not a naval captain. He is, however, Toronto’s only floating restaurant entrepreneur, and that has to count for something. John Letnik is a Yugoslavian emigré who came to Canada in 1957. The ship that currently sits at the foot of Yonge isn’t his first buoyant business: the original was in a former ferry called the Normac. Things went swimmingly until 1981, when...
It's summer in Toronto on Google maps!
anyone who spends as much time as i do on www.maps.google.com will have noticed that they’ve updated the old fall satellite photos with new ones from this summer, to match street view. yay, virtual summer!
WatchHeritage Toronto iTour of Spadina Ave One of Toronto’s main arteries, Spadina Avenue has a rich cultural history that includes being the industrial heart of our city, and home to our Chinese and Jewish communities.
(Fast-forward to 2:45 to skip the RBC preamble)
Bike-Theft Anonymous: The Legacy of Igor Kenk
by OLIVIA FORSYTH-SELLS for urbanemagazine.org.
A notorious bicycle dealing king pin was arrested on numerous counts of bicycle theft and drug possession. Igor Kenk, the owner of a bicycle repair shop located on Queen Street West was let off with, arguably, a worthless and insignificant sentence. After years of questionable behavior, and rumours about illegal dealings, many local shop owners...
