[PHOTO] Twenty-nine photos of Winter Stations and Woodbine Beach (#winterstations, #woodbinebeach)

Mar. 25th, 2020 07:30 pm
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Saturday, the 21st of March, was a perfect day to see the public art works in the 2020 Winter Stations, the sadly diminished crowds enabling me to have a socially distanced trip down to Woodbine. There, the three of the four Winter Stations artworks that were not destroyed by errant children at play still stood, sounded even when designed to do so. The grey sky hung over the damp brown beach, and the pale green-blue sea lapped at the shore.

Towards Winter Stations #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #beach #publicart #latergram


East along the beach #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #beach #boardwalk #publicart #latergram


Winter Stations at a distance #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #beach #publicart #latergram


West along the beach #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #latergram


South into the lake #toronto #lakeontario #woodbinebeach #beach #latergram


Mirage (1) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #mirage #publicart #latergram


Mirage (2) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #mirage #publicart #latergram


Mirage (3) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #mirage #publicart #latergram


Mirage (4) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #mirage #publicart #latergram


Mirage (5) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #mirage #publicart #latergram


North towards the city #toronto #winterstations #woodbinebeach #latergram


Sitting by the shore #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #lakeontario #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (1) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (2) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (3) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (4) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (5) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (6) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


The Beach's Percussion Ensemble (7) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #latergram


Hearth #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #hearth #stones #beach #latergram


Kaleidoscope of the Senses (1) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #kaleidoscopeofthesenses #latergram


Kaleidoscope of the Senses (2) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #kaleidoscopeofthesenses #latergram


Kaleidoscope of the Senses (3) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #kaleidoscopeofthesenses #latergram


Wandering #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #latergram


Blue, green, brown #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #horizon #blue #green #brown #latergram


Looking back #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #chairs #latergram


Kaleidoscope of the Senses (4) #toronto #woodbinebeach #winterstations #publicart #kaleidoscopeofthesenses #latergram


Horizon #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #horizon #latergram


Runner #toronto #woodbinebeach #beach #boardwalk #runner #latergram
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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New Orleans, Berlin, Hasankeyf, Hong Kong

Sep. 20th, 2019 03:11 pm
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  • Why not build a public beach in the Montréal neighbourhood of Lachine? Global News considers.

  • The Vietnamese cuisine of New Orleans does look good. VICE reports.

  • CityLab describes an effort to build a smart city in Berlin, in Siemensstadt. I wish Berliners better outcomes than what Toronto seems to be getting in the Port Lands.

  • Guardian Cities reports on what seems to me to be a terrible plan to flood the ancient settlement of Hasankeyf in Turkey for dams.

  • Saša Petricic at CBC looks at how the political consensus in Hong Kong has broken down, perhaps irretrievably.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Town of the Blue Mountains, Québec City, Calgary, Edmonton

Sep. 19th, 2019 04:26 pm
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  • Kingston will be hosting an open house discussion on the legacies of its most famous resident, John A. MacDonald. Global News reports.

  • The Toronto Star reports on a beach and land ownership controversy in the Georgian Bay resort Town of the Blue Mountains, here.

  • CBC Montreal reports on the closure of the Québec City church Très-Saint-Sacrement, after just under a century of operation, here.

  • Cost increases for the Green Line LRT in Calgary may lead to route changes. Global News reports.

  • The Brick has taken over the space of Sears in the West Edmonton Mall, offering hope to shopping malls of survival. Global News reports.

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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

Sep. 10th, 2019 11:52 pm
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  • Ryan Anderson at anthro{dendum} looks at the unnatural history of the beach in California, here.

  • Architectuul looks at the architectural imaginings of Iraqi Shero Bahradar, here.

  • Bad Astronomy looks at gas-rich galaxy NGC 3242.

  • James Bow announces his new novel The Night Girl, an urban fantasy set in an alternate Toronto with an author panel discussion scheduled for the Lillian H. Smith Library on the 28th.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at the indirect evidence for an exomoon orbiting WASP-49b, a possible Io analogue detected through its ejected sodium.

  • Crooked Timber considers the plight of holders of foreign passports in the UK after Brexit.

  • The Crux notes that astronomers are still debating the nature of galaxy GC1052-DF2, oddly lacking in dark matter.

  • D-Brief notes how, in different scientific fields, the deaths of prominent scientists can help progress.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes how NASA and the ESA are considering sample-return missions to Ceres.

  • Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

  • The Dragon's Tales looks at how Japan is considering building ASAT weapons.

  • Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

  • Far Outliers looks how the anti-malarial drug quinine played a key role in allowing Europeans to survive Africa.

  • At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox considers grace and climate change.

  • io9 reports on how Jonathan Frakes had anxiety attacks over his return as Riker on Star Trek: Picard.

  • JSTOR Daily reports on the threatened banana.

  • Language Log looks at the language of Hong Kong protesters.

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how a new version of The Last of the Mohicans perpetuates Native American erasure.

  • Marginal Revolution notes how East Germany remains alienated.

  • Neuroskeptic looks at the participant-observer effect in fMRI subjects.

  • The NYR Daily reports on a documentary looking at the India of Modi.

  • Corey S. Powell writes at Out There about Neptune.

  • The Planetary Society Blog examines the atmosphere of Venus, something almost literally oceanic in its nature.

  • Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money considers how Greenland might be incorporated into the United States.

  • Rocky Planet notes how Earth is unique down to the level of its component minerals.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog considers biopolitical conservatism in Poland and Russia.

  • Starts With a Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if LIGO has made a detection that might reveal the nonexistence of the theorized mass gap between neutron stars and black holes.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at Marchetti's constant: People in cities, it seems, simply do not want to commute for a time longer than half an hour.

  • Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at how the US Chemical Safety Board works.

  • Window on Eurasia reports on how Muslims in the Russian Far North fare.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at cannons and canons.

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[NEWS] Five links: gay genes, stone walls, US wealth, beaches, media

Aug. 30th, 2019 07:35 pm
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  • That, as a new study suggests, there is no single gay gene, but rather multiple different originals for non-heterosexual sexual orientations and behaviours, makes intuitive sense to me. The Washington Post has one take.

  • Atlas Obscura looks at the history behind the stone walls of New England.
  • Justin Fox at Bloomberg examines how the once-commanding lead in incomes of the middle class of the United States over the middle classes of other countries is starting to fade.

  • CityLab looks at how, too often by design, beaches in the United States are inaccessible to mass transit. (Toronto is lucky.)

  • La Presse shares a proposal by Radio-Canada to move away from a media model of competing with other outlets towards one based on collaboration.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Belleville, Flint, Kingston, New York City, Vancouver

Aug. 28th, 2019 09:30 pm
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  • Rising real estate prices in Toronto are driving similar increases in communities far from the GTA like Belleville. The Toronto Star reports.

  • VICE reports on how good food can lead the rehabilitation of Flint, Michigan.

  • Kingston will take three years to build its latest bridge. Global News reports.

  • Beaches like NYC's Rockaway Beach are facing pressures from climate change and from gentrification, CityLab reports.

  • Many of the homeless camped in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park are being rehoused, as part of a slow-moving campaign. Global News reports.

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[PHOTO] Nine photos from in and around Kew Gardens, The Beaches

Aug. 1st, 2019 09:32 am
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As part of a campaign by the Beach Village BIA to attract pedestrian traffic to The Beaches, outdoor screenings of different movies have been scheduled every Wednesday night in Kew Gardens. I've gone to the past two, certainly appreciating the chance to explore.

Green Kew Gardens under blue sky #toronto #beaches #kewgardens #park #green #tree #blue #sky #evening


Back garden, Book City #toronto #beaches #gardens #bookcity #bookstores #evening


Wires overhead #toronto #beaches #queenstreeteast #queenstreet #wires #blue #sky


"In Honor Of Those Who Served" #toronto #beaches #kewgardens #cenotaph #war


Blue sky to the west #toronto #beaches #kewgardens #blue #sky #evening


Waiting for the show #toronto #beaches #kewgardens #evening #gazebo #screen


Gazebo by night #toronto #beaches #kewgardens #gazebo #night #lights


Gazebo and credits #toronto #kewgardens #beaches #gazebo #night #movie


Baseball by night #toronto #kewgardens #beaches #night #lights #baseball
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[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: Lake Ontario, fly, Ontario Place, Port Lands, parks

Jun. 2nd, 2019 01:14 pm
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  • Measured at Toronto, Lake Ontario has reached its highest point in recorded history. blogTO reports.

  • Beach season has to be put off in Toronto until mid-June at least, on account of the record high water. blogTO reports.

  • Legendary queer nightclub fly--or fly 2.0--is shutting down this Pride. blogTO reports.

  • The provincial government call for development proposals for Ontario Place, happily, makes no mention of casinos. The National Post reports.

  • This BBC article takes a convenient outsider's look at the controversy over the Google involvement in the Port Lands development project.

  • Tanya Mok at blogTO introduces readers to the very unusual June Callwood Park, designed around a voiceprint of the late journalist and activist.

  • Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto looks at the impromptu party being Daniel Rotsztain to celebrate The Pillars at Queens Quay at York this evening. (I think I'll be there.)

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Daily Bread, Beaches, Easter, Ontario Place, van attack

Apr. 22nd, 2019 01:33 pm
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  • CBC Toronto reports from the Daily Bread Food Bank drive, held this past weekend, here.

  • CBC Toronto reports on the decline of small business in the Beaches, and the efforts of community leaders to reverse this decline.

  • CBC Toronto reports on the Beaches Easter Parade, held Sunday. Perhaps next year?

  • Listing Ontario Place on Toronto's heritage register, giving this site protection, is a fine idea. CBC Toronto reports.

  • Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star notes how, one year after the North York van attack, coming up with policies which protect the public while keeping the city open is difficult.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, St. Catharines, Montréal, Milwaukee, Boonsboro

Mar. 24th, 2019 04:02 pm
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  • The City of Mississauga hopes to secede from Peel Region, becoming an independent city like Toronto. Global News reports.

  • Urban Toronto notes the remarkable scope of a plan in St. Catharines to build a vast new mixed-use development on neglected lands.

  • Plans to build a new beach for an east-end Montréal neighbourhood have been put into motion. CBC reports.

  • CityLab reports on the success of self-described socialists in Milwaukee civic elections.

  • This Jezebel article reveals the remarkably prominent role Nora Roberts has taken on in Boonsboro, Maryland, a small town substantially sustained by her investments and that bears her mark.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Netflix, McArthur, Downsview Park, Winter Stations, winter rain

Feb. 19th, 2019 03:05 pm
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  • Netflix is opening up a new production hub in Toronto, creating as many as two thousand extra jobs. CBC reports.

  • The inquiry into a policeman charged with unfairly dismissing a 2016 report of an attempted choking by Bruce McArthur continues. The National Post reports.

  • Is there a possibility that Downsview Park might undergo a renaissance as a hub of aerospace industry? CBC reports.

  • CBC Toronto reports on this year's iteration of Winter Stations, this one based around the theme of migration.

  • Freezing rain is expected for Wednesday night, contributing to a winter that so far as been quite full of precipitation of all kinds. CBC reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: homelessness, Port Lands, housing, Winter Stations, Cracked Wheat

Feb. 18th, 2019 01:46 pm
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  • There will be a new shelter for homeless youth in Scarborough soon, capable of housing several dozen people. CBC reports.

  • Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star suggests that much of the controversy, at least, over Google's plans in the Port Lands is misjudged.

  • Tess Kalinowski at the Toronto Star shares some locally new ideas for increasing housing supply.

  • Winter Stations is back this winter at Ashbridge's Bay! Global News reports.

  • Sarah Ratzlaff at Spacing interviews sculptor Shary Boyle about her new work, Cracked Wheat, on display in front of the Gardiner Museum.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Wasaga Beach, Montréal, Barcelona, Narva, Luanda

Jan. 27th, 2019 01:55 pm
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  • The question of how to develop, or redevelop, the Georgian Bay resort town of Wasaga Beach is ever-pressing. Global News reports.

  • Le Devoir enters the discussion over the Royalmount development, arguing that the city of Montréal needs to fight urban sprawl.

  • Guardian Cities reports on the efforts of Barcelona to keep its street kiosks, home to a thriving culture, alive in the digital age.

  • The New York Times reports on how the government of Estonia is trying to use pop culture to help bind the Russophone-majority city of Narva into the country.

  • This Guardian Cities photo essay takes a look at how the Angolan capital of Luanda, after a long economic boom driven by oil, is rich but terribly unequal.

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[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: gay and Catholic, 1970s Moscow, Australia beaches, Paradise Garage, bars

Jan. 21st, 2019 06:33 pm
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  • The Conversation notes the dangers facing LGBTQ students and staff in Catholic schools in Canada.

  • Deutsche Welle shares the story of how the Soviet Union in the 1970s hosted a delegation of visiting gay activists from Berlin.

  • The Guardian reports on how LGBTQ people in Australia have found it difficult, even unsafe, to enjoy that country's beach culture.

  • VICE shares photos from New York City's Paradise Garage, taken in the 1970s.

  • Hornet Stories takes an extended look at the reasons, good and bad, for the decline of gay bars.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Presto, Kensington Market, KING, Beaches, Ontario Place

Jan. 13th, 2019 02:17 pm
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  • Jarek Piórkowski writes about how he can use his Presto card records to reconstruct, to varying degrees of fidelity, his commutes across the Greater Toronto Area.

  • blogTO notes that the streetside bins of nuts and fruits of Salamanca Dry Foods Store in Kensington Market are no more, thanks to a new charge by the city.

  • This paid section at the Toronto Star does a good job explaining the new planned Bjarke Ingels KING condominium complex on King Street West.

  • CBC Toronto notes a new push by residents of the Beaches to encourage visitors (and locals) not to litter, on Woodbine or any other of the east-end's iconic strands.

  • The Toronto Star reports on a community meeting regarding the redevelopment of Ontario Place, the different proposals all being united by a desire to keep this place a high-quality destination open to all Torontonians.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Reese Fallon, guns, Sugar Beach North, Little Ethiopia, Parkdale

Jul. 24th, 2018 01:07 pm
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  • Reese Fallon, one of the two people killed in the Danforth shooting, was a student hoping to go to the fall to McMaster University to study for a career in nursing. The Toronto Star reports.

  • People in some Toronto neighbourhoods with high levels of gun violence welcome an expanded police presence, despite other issues. CBC reports.

  • Urban Toronto notes an exciting plan to, among other things, build a Sugar Beach North on the waterfront.

  • blogTO talks about Little Ethiopia, on Danforth by Greenwood. Speaking as someone familiar with his Little Ethiopia near Ossington, this area sounds fascinating.

  • The Pia Bouman School in Parkdale, a leading dance academy for four decades, is hoping to avoid displacement by new construction. CBC reports.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Quayside, Woodbine Beach, Feed It Forward, comedy, Jollibee

Jul. 9th, 2018 01:51 pm
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  • John Lorinc takes a look at the latest involved in the Quayside development, with turmoil at Sidewalk Labs. Spacing has it.

  • I am perplexed by this unsightly mooring of boats on a heavy trafficked beach like Woodbine. CBC reports.

  • Feed It Forward, a pay what you can grocery store in the Junction, is apparently still open. NOW Toronto reports.

  • Women on the Toronto comedy scene are organizing for the #metoo era. Buzzfeed has it.

  • Toronto's only Jollibee restaurant is still attracting crowds. blogTO examines why, and how the restaurant manages the crush.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Edmonton, Vancouver, St. George, Kanepi, Moscow

May. 20th, 2018 03:19 pm
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  • The City of Edmonton is considering the idea of intentionally creating a beach for sun-seekers on the North Saskatchewan River after last year's happy accident. Global News reports.

  • There is controversy in Vancouver over the idea of investor immigrants gaining voting rights in the city. Global News reports.

  • The Utah conurbation of St. George faces real problems of water scarcity. CityLab reports.

  • The Estonian municipality of Kanepi has made the leaf of the cannabis plant its logo. CityLab reports.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the symbolism behind the vast and impressive Moscow subway system, here.

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[PHOTO] Twenty-one photos of Winter Stations on Woodbine Beach (#winterstations)

Apr. 9th, 2018 01:09 pm
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Winter Stations this year was glorious, and Sunday the 1st of April was a great day to see these seven artworks, stretching out on the wide beaches set against the distant horizons.

Make Some Noise!!! (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #makesomenoise #publicart #latergram


Make Some Noise!!! (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #makesomenoise #publicart #latergram


Make Some Noise!!! (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #makesomenoise #publicart #latergram


Wind Station (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #makesomenoise #publicart #latergram


Wind Station (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #windstation #publicart #latergram


Wind Station (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #windstation #publicart #latergram


Obstacle (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #obstacle #publicart #latergram


Obstacle (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #obstacle #publicart #latergram


Obstacle (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #obstacle #publicart #latergram


Nest (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #nest #publicart #latergram


Nest (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #nest #publicart #latergram


Nest (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #nest #publicart #latergram


Rising Up (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #risingup #publicart #latergram


Rising Up (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #risingup #publicart #latergram


Rising Up (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #risingup #publicart #latergram


Revolution (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #revolutiom #publicart #latergram


Revolution (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #revolutiom #publicart #latergram


Revolution (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #revolution #publicart #latergram


Pussy Hat (1) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #pussyhat #publicart #latergram


Pussy Hat (2) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #pussyhat #publicart #latergram


Pussy Hat (3) #toronto #winterstations #beaches #woodbinebeach #pussyhat #publicart #latergram
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[PHOTO] Towers to the west, Woodbine Beach

Apr. 5th, 2018 12:00 pm
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Towers to the west #toronto #beaches #woodbinebeach #evening #towers #cntower #latergram
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