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I was walking Tuesday night to the Museum of the Moon at the Bentway, coming west from the downtown, when I turned around where Front connected to Bathurst Street and decided to look back.
- CBC Toronto bids farewell, fittingly at TCAF time, to the iconic Jason Loo Toronto comic series The Pitiful Human-Lizard.
- At blogTO, Tanya Mok reports on the resistance of tenants at 54-56 Kensington Avenue to an illegal eviction order by their landlord.
- The Toronto Star reports on a new matchmaking event intended to connect future roommates to each other.
- Kevin Ritchie at NOW Toronto reports on how a new pricing scheme for the AGO, including a $35 annual pass for people over 25, reflects a push to try to get more people into museums.
- Glenn Sumi writes at NOW Toronto about the increasingly steep price of ticket prices for live theatre in Toronto.
- Toronto Life shares photos from an exhibit, by Patrick Cummins and Ivaan Kotulsky, of Queen Street West in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the emptying of an old warehouse of collectibles and oddities on Wabush, part of the decline of old storied Toronto.
- Toronto Life shares more photos from outdoor market Stackt, at Front and Bathurst.
- Steve Munro starts to analyse traffic patterns on the 501 Queen streetcar, looking first at the Neville Loop end.
- NOW Toronto is one of a few news sources to report on Scarborough writer Téa Mutonji and her new short story collection Shut Up, You're Pretty.
- At Spacing, John Lorinc notes that mayor John Tory is allowing waterfront transit plans to get delayed.
- blogTO notes that there is apparently controversy over the correct spelling of Christie Pits.
- CBC Toronto profiles the humble apartment at Bathurst and St. Clair that was home to Ernest Hemingway.
- These photos of stackt, at Bathurst and Front, look amazing. Retail Insider has them.
- blogTO notes that three new Jollibee locations are scheduled to open in 2020, including one downtown at Yonge and Gould.
- Making the King Street pilot project permanent is at least a small victory for Toronto. CBC reports.
- Urban Toronto shares the remarkable plans for the transformation of the Galleria Mall.
- blogTO shows what the Park Wyatt, at Bloor and Avenue Road, will look like after renovations.
- Toronto Life takes a look inside the Hunny Pot, the first legal marijuana shop in Toronto.
- blogTO notes preliminary plans for a new community centre on the waterfront at Queens Quay.
- Transit Toronto notes that geophysical surveying will be ongoing for the Yonge Line extension.
- Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about Stackt, an innovative new market made of shipping containers at Fort York and Bathurst.
<.center>I had yesterday off, and slept in late, so I only ended up getting out of my apartment and onto my street by 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The white-out conditions surprised me: I could barely see to the end of the block.
Still, I was up, I was dressed, and I was already out. I took first the 29 Dufferin bus south and then the subway east over to Bathurst and Bloor to do some errands.
(The site of the old Honest Ed’s, currently a construction site, struck me as very photo-worthy with its warm bright colours.)
I ended up afterwards taking a little trip and headed west to Jane station, there to board the 26 Dupont bus and be dropped off practically at my warm home at 5 o’clock, with my cats and with my storm chips.
I just hope I will not have to dig out too much snow tomorrow morning.
Still, I was up, I was dressed, and I was already out. I took first the 29 Dufferin bus south and then the subway east over to Bathurst and Bloor to do some errands.
(The site of the old Honest Ed’s, currently a construction site, struck me as very photo-worthy with its warm bright colours.)
I ended up afterwards taking a little trip and headed west to Jane station, there to board the 26 Dupont bus and be dropped off practically at my warm home at 5 o’clock, with my cats and with my storm chips.
I just hope I will not have to dig out too much snow tomorrow morning.
- The TTC would like to increase fares by 10 cents a ride in the coming year, to help finance basic repairs and services. CityNews reports.
- Facing public furor, Metrolinx has decided not to try to close off Bathurst Street at Eglinton for seven months to try to speed Eglinton Crosstown construction. Global News reports.
- Steve Munro is critical of the TTC's new express buses running on many major arteries, seeing them as mainly cosmetic in effect.
- Wendy Gillis at the Toronto Star writes about the reactions, one year later, to the murders committed by the Church and Wellesley killer.
- Richard Florida at CityLab summarizes the factors leading to the success of populist Ford Nation, first in Toronto and then in Ontario.
- That the owners of 650 Parliament Street are charging displaced tenants rent, while they are away from their homes, is unconscionable. The Toronto Star reports.
- This CBC Toronto story about light pollution leaking over from a commercial building in Leslieville to nearby condos highlights a new problem for mixed-use districts.
- Urban Toronto takes a look at the latest version of a proposal for a mixed-used property at Lake Shore and Bathurst.
- blogTO notes that at least some politicians want to extend the underused Sheppard line of the TTC east to Kennedy station.
- Aparita Bhandavi at The Discourse notes how the recent elections confirmed the underrepresentation of non-white males in politics in Scarborough.
[PHOTO] West past where Honest Ed's was
Apr. 20th, 2018 10:30 amI was walking west on Bloor past Bathurst Street last night when I took at the space where Honest Ed's used to be. There's still nothing there, only a wire fence separating the space of the former Honest Ed's from Bathurst to the east and a more robust and lit pathway solidly blocked off to the north.
It's the end of an era. Had I not gone last evening, there would have been nothing at all left of the sign, not even the stub.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
Galbraith also assembled a video of this icon's demolition, from drone footage.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
Galbraith also assembled a video of this icon's demolition, from drone footage.
It's the end of an era. Had I not gone last evening, there would have been nothing at all left of the sign, not even the stub.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
Fall of the sign's fall was captured for Instagram by jackiiiee. Sean Galbraith took photos of the aftermath, here and here.
