[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Artscape, PoP Shoppe, Funhouse,

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• Tanya Mok at blogTO looks at Artscape Weston Common.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the heyday of the PoP Shoppe, a late 1970s chain specializing in different kids of soda drinks.


• Toronto Life reports on the Funhouse experience created inside an old Buddhist temple off Queen Street West.


• blogTO notes that, at least so far as absolute numbers are concerned, Toronto is the fastest-growing city in the United States and Canada.


• Toronto Life reports on a home in the Annex that was sold a decade and a half ago at three hundred thousand and just now went for 1.5 million.