[PHOTO] Five photos of lower Yonge Street at night

After I watched and enjoyed Aquaman last night at the Cineplex theatre at Yonge and Dundas, I walked around and eventually down Yonge Street.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers what it means to live a kintsugi life.


• The Crux looks at the difficulties facing the researches who seek to understand the undeciphered script of the Indus Valley Civilization.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance, and relevance, of studying sociological research methods.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revives from the archives an old article from the 1980s looking at the impact of VCRs on their users.


• JSTOR Daily examines the new challenges facing makeup artists in the early Technicolor era of Hollywood in the 1930s.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the economic motives for well-off Chinese households to engage in the footbinding of young women.


• Gabrielle Bellot writes at the NYR Daily about a remarkable overlooked work by James Baldwin, the children's book Little Man, Little Man illustrated by Yoran Cazac.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that the Opportunity rover on Mars is still silent, though there is still hope for the robot that could.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map examining the distribution of speakers of English in the Russian Federation circa 2010.


• Drew Rowsome reviews a collection of the comic horror short stories of Isaac Thorne.


• Speed River Journal's Van Waffle meditates on lichen and dogs in the park.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse galaxy that seems to have been formed in the aftermath of a sort of conflict with dark matter.


• The top post of 2018 at Strange Company was this post looking at the mysterious 1911 murder in Indianapolis of German-born doctor Helen Knabe.


• John Scalzi at Whatever notes, in response to a recent survey suggesting authors have very low incomes, that most authors have never earned that much.


• Window on Eurasia takes a look, in the wake of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, controversy in Belarus over a possible similar move there.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the sheer complexity of the potential options for the United Kingdom with Brexit makes simple strategies--and a simple referendum question--exceptionally difficult.


• Arnold Zwicky has an enjoyable rumination starting from a Owen Smith parody of the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawk on the cover of The New Yorker.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Ordnance Triangle, Yonge and Dundas, Toronto Islands, Ontario Place

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• Urban Toronto has profiled another new tower rising in another new neighbourhood, Garrison Point in the Ordnance Triangle not far from Liberty Village.


• Loryssa Quattrociocchi writes at NOW Toronto about how a property at Dundas East and Victoria, at Yonge-Dundas Square, has languished in official neglect for years.


• Don Sampson, living in the old family home on the Toronto Islands last held by his brother, has been spared eviction for the time being. The Toronto Star reports.


• David Rider at the Toronto Star notes that the selection of Ford ally James Ginou to the head of the Ontario Place board of directors, and the critical language that he has used about the development, is alarming to many.


• John Lorinc at Spacing questions what Toronto city council will do to ease the housing crisis.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Québec City, Tripoli, Tashkent

• Kingston is expanding and modernizing its docks to accommodate cruise ships, Global News reports.


• Le Devoir reports on how gentrification in Montréal is pushing artists out of the once-inexpensive Mile-Ex neighbourhood.


• In an era where Québec City is pushing for more mass transit, the idea of building a third bridge across the St. Lawrence to relieve car congestion is controversial. CTV reports.


• Guardian Cities reports on how a fairground built in Tripoli by Oscar Neimeyer is falling into, perhaps irreparable, disrepair.


• Open Democracy reports on how new urban development is pushing out many people from old Tashkent.

[ISL] Five #PEI links: Summerside beluga, Alberton telehealth, farmers, Green Party, water supply

• A young beluga whale is hanging out in the waters of the Northumberland Strait off of Summerside. Global News reports.


• A pilot project in the western PEI town of Alberton is trying to meet the needs of patients for medical advice by connecting them with doctors in teleconferences. Global News reports.


• A new census of the Island's farm population reveals that the population of farmers is both shrinking and aging with great speed. CBC PEI reports.


• Peter Rukavina took a look at the priorities of Green Party leader--and future premier?--Peter Bevan-Baker.


• The National Observer noted that a new PEI law aiming to protect the water supply could be a model for Canada at large.

[ISL] Five #islands links: Kurils, Chincoteague, Crete, St. Helena, Fisher Island

• Quartz notes that Japan this year is hoping to regain two of the Kuril Islands from Russia.


• This sad report looks at how the wild horses of Chincoteague island, off the coast of Virginia, are endangered by an infectious fungus.


• Guardian Cities notes how an energetic resistance in Heraklion, chief city of the island of Crete, helped drive out Golden Dawn.


• Conservative Home shares an article noting that hopes for a tourism boom in the isolated South Atlantic island of St. Helena have come to naught because weather makes regular flights prohibitive.


• Bloomberg reported last April that Fisher Island, off Miami, zip code 33109, is the richest zip code in the United States.