rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with fashion

(A day late, I know; I crashed after work yesterday.)

Antipope's Charlie Stross has a thought experiment: If you were superwealthy and guaranteed to live a long health life, how would you try to deal with the consequence of economic inequality?

Vikas Charma at Architectuul takes a look at the different factors that go into height in buildings.

Bad Astronomy notes S5-HVS1, a star flung out of the Milky Way Galaxy by Sagittarius A* at 1755 kilometres per second.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares photos from two Manhattan walks of hers, taken in non-famous areas.

Centauri Dreams looks at habitability for red dwarf exoplanets. Stellar activity matters.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber shares words from a manifesto about data protection in the EU.

Dangerous Minds shares photos from Los Angeles punks and mods and others in the 1980s.

Bruce Dorminey notes a ESA report suggesting crew hibernation could make trips to Mars easier.

Gizmodo notes that the Hayabusa2 probe of Japan is returning from asteroid Ryugu with a sample.

Imageo shares photos of the disastrous fires in Australia from space.

Information is Beautiful reports on winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards for 2019, for good infographics.

JSTOR Daily explains how local television stations made the ironic viewing of bad movies a thing.

Kotaku reports on the last days of Kawasaki Warehouse, an arcade in Japan patterned on the demolished Walled City of Kowloon.

Language Hat notes how translation mistakes led to the star Beta Cygni gaining the Arabic name Albireo.

Language Log reports on a unique Cantonese name of a restaurant in Hong Kong.

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to an analysis of his suggesting the military of India is increasingly hard-pressed to counterbalance China.

The LRB Blog notes the catastrophe of Venice.

Marginal Revolution notes a paper suggesting states would do well not to place their capitals too far away from major population centres.

Justin Petrone at North! remarks on a set of old apple preserves.

The NYR Daily looks at how the west and the east of the European Union are divided by different conceptions of national identity.

Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections reports from his town of Armidale as the smoke from the Australian wildfires surrounds all. The photos are shocking.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog lists some books about space suitable for children.

Drew Rowsome reviews the Canadian film music stand, inspired by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting that, in Switzerland, parenthood does not make people happy.

The Signal notes that 1.7 million phone book pages have been scanned into the records of the Library of Congress.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains the concept of multi-messenger astronomy and why it points the way forward for studies of astrophysics.

Strange Maps looks at how a majority of students in the United States attend diverse schools, and where.

Strange Company explores the mysterious death of Marc-Antoine Calas, whose death triggered the persecution of Huguenots and resulted in the mobilization of Enlightenment figures like Voltaire against the state. What happened?

Towleroad hosts a critical, perhaps disappointed, review of the major gay play The Inheritance.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at the power of individual people in political hierarchies.

Window on Eurasia shares an opinion piece noting how many threats to the Russian language have come from its association with unpopular actions by Russia.

Arnold Zwicky explores queens as various as Elizabeth I and Adore Delano.

Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} compares different sorts of public bathing around the world, from Native America to Norden to Japan.

Charlie Stross at Antipope is unimpressed by the person writing the script for our timeline.

Architectuul reports on an architectural conference in Lisbon.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos of the eruption of the Raikoke volcano in Kamchatka.

Centauri Dreams looks at what the Voyager spacecraft have returned about the edge of the solar system.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the idea of bipartisanship if it means compromising on reality, allegorically.

The Crux counts the number of people who have died in outer space.

D-Brief notes that the Andromeda Galaxy has swallowed up multiple dwarf galaxies over the eons.

Dead Things notes the identification of the first raptor species from Southeast Asia, Siamraptor suwati.

The Dragon's Tales notes a paper tracing the origins of interstellar comet 2/Borisov from the general area of Kruger 60.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the privilege allowing people access to affordable dental care.

Gizmodo tells how Alexei Leonov survived the first spacewalk.

io9 looks at the remarkable new status quo for the X-Men created by Jonathan Hickman.

Selma Franssen at the Island Review writes about the threats facing the seabirds of the Shetlands.

JSTOR Daily looks at what led Richard Nixon to make so many breaks from the American consensus on China in the Cold War.

Language Log notes an undergraduate course at Yale using the Voynich Manuscript as an aid in the study of language.

Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains her recent experience of the socialized health care system of Israel for Americans.

The LRB Blog looks at how badly the Fukuyama prediction of an end to history has aged.

The Map Room Blog shares a few maps of the new Ottawa LRT route.

Marginal Revolution notes a paper establishing a link between Chinese industries undermining their counterparts in Mexico and Mexican social ills including crime.

Sean Marshall reports from Ottawa about what the Confederation Line looks like.

Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily looks at the power of improvisation in music.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at South Williamsburg Jewish deli Gottlieb's.

Drew Rowsome reviews the new Patti Smith book, Year of the Monkey.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking as the factors leading into transnational movements.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the question of the direction(s) in which order in the universe was generated.

Window on Eurasia shares a report noting the very minor flows of migration from China to Russia.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the politics in the British riding of Keighley.

Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguin socks.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes new research on where the sun is located within the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the value of slow fashion.

Centauri Dreams notes the different gas giants that our early methods have yet to pick up.

Crooked Timber shares a lovely photo looking back at Venice from across its lagoon.

D-Brief notes that upcoming space telescopes might find hundreds of rogue planets thanks to microlensing.

io9 notes that Marvel will soon be producing Warhammer40K comics.

The Island Review shares some poetry and photography by Ken Cockburn inspired by the Isle of Jura.

JSTOR Daily notes that different humpback whale groups have different songs, different cultures.

Language Hat tries to find the meaning of the odd Soviet Yiddish word "kolvirt".

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the history of Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher.

Map Room Blog shares information from Google Maps about its use of data.

Marginal Revolution notes that in 2016, not a single child born in the United Kingdom was given the name Nigel.

Peter Watts talks about AI and what else he is doing.

The NYR Daily marked the centennial of a horrible massacre of African-Americans centered on the Arkansas community of Elaine.

Emily Margolis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at how the Apollo moon missions helped galvanize tourism in Florida.

Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money looks at the constitutional crisis in Peru.

Drew Rowsome takes a look at A Streetcar Named Desire.

Peter Rukavina looks at a spreadsheet revealing the distribution of PEI public servants.

Spacing reviews a book imagining how small communities can rebuild themselves in neoliberalism.

Towleroad shares the criticism of Christine and the Queens of the allegedly opportunistic use of queer culture by Taylor Swift.

Understanding Society considers, sociologically, the way artifacts work.

The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China should be a day of mourning, on account of the high human toll of the PRC.

Window on Eurasia suggests the Russian generation of the 1970s was too small to create lasting change.

Arnold Zwicky looks at how underwear ads can be quite sexualized.

Oh, why not a fashion show organized around the theme of Cheetos? VICE reports.

A farmer in the Gaspé peninsula is trying to retrieve all of his missing yaks. CBC Montreal has it.

A Newfoundland researcher and artist is examining the relationship of the island with Atlantic slavery. Global News reports.

Atlas Obscura takes a look at the alternative comics scene in the Middle East, centered on Lebanon.

Vanity Fair shares an account of how Netflix tried to sell itself, and its model, to Blockbuster and failed.

blogTO notes that grocery chain No Frills has come out with a side-scrolling video game.

blogTO notes that Lakeshore Apparel is making shirts and other garments representing often-overlooked Toronto neighbourhoods.

Famed Little Italy nightclub The Matador has been sold to condo developers. The Toronto Star reports.

The East Side Motel, a Scarborough motel once used by the City of Toronto to house homeless people, has been demolished. The Toronto Star U>reports.

Front-line housing workers are finding themselves faced with problems impossible to solve thanks to the housing crisis. The Toronto Star reports.

Anne Kingston at MacLean's notes that estate documents belonging to Barry and Honey Sherman will be unsealed in a couple of months, attracting interest from people interested in the billionaire couple's murder.

This PressProgress report on the many well-off businesspeople in Toronto who supported the Faith Goldy run for mayor of Toronto is eye-opening.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber takes us from her son's accidental cut to the electronic music of Røbic.

D-Brief explains what the exceptional unexpected brightness of the first galaxies reveals about the universe.

Far Outliers looks at how President Grant tried to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.

JSTOR Daily looks at the surprising influence of the Turkish harem on the fashion, at least, of Western women.

This Kotaku essay arguing that no one should be sitting on the Iron Throne makes even better sense to me now.

Language Hat looks at the particular forms of French spoken by the famously Francophile Russian elites of the 19th century.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how teaching people to code did not save the residents of an Appalachia community.

Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 19th century, the young United States trading extensively with the Caribbean, even with independent Haiti.

At the NYR Daily, Colm Tóibín looks at the paintings of Pat Steir.

Peter Rukavina writes about how he has been inspired by the deaths of the Underhays to become more active in local politics.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society shares his research goals from 1976.

Window on Eurasia notes the conflicts between the Russian Orthodox Church and some Russian nationalists over the latter's praise of Stalin.

Arnold Zwicky looks at dragons in history, queer and otherwise.

JSTOR Daily looks at the myth that land ownership was not present in pre-Columbian Indigenous cultures in the Americas.

CBC takes a look at Indigenous traditions of astronomy.

JSTOR Daily looks at how white female reformers of the early 20th century US tried to repress the sacred dances of the Pueblo peoples, and why.

CBC had a great feature about how Cree doctor James Makokis uses Indigenous perspectives to treat his trans clientele.

This report about MakadeMigize Clothing, a company created by a Manitoba family whose clothes are inspired by Indigenous languages. Global News covers the issue.

Jamie Bradburn takes a look at the early 1980s genesis of the Ontario slogan "Yours to discover".

CBC examines how French's ketchup managed to take a lead over Heinz thanks to good marketing use of Canadian patriotism.

CBC reports on the east coast culinary festival of Sealfest, making use of seal products.

NOW Toronto praises Beauty in a Box, the new Cheryl Thompson book examining the African-Canadian beauty industry in all of its many facets through history.

This Toronto Star exposé takes a look at the disturbingly high rates of substance abuse among Alberta oilpatch workers.

Paul Salvatori writes at NOW Toronto about the homeless encampments beneath the Gardiner, surely a call for some meaningful action at the municipal level.

VICE reports on how six young Torontonians dealt with the housing shortage in Toronto by buying a home together, cohabiting.

blogTO takes a look at the ease of fare evasion on the TTC.

Jamie Bradburn takes a look at some vintage fashion ads from Toronto in the 1980s.

Etobicoke-born Brooke Lynn Hytes has become the first Canadian to compete on RuPaul's Drag Race, in Season 11, CP24 reports.

CBC reports on the discovery of a substantial store of quinoa seeds in an Indigenous archeological site in Brantford, showing the existence of vast trade networks connecting the Andes to Canada.

Oil exploration in the Gaspé peninsula, La Presse reports, upsets the Mi'gmag of the Listuguj there.

National Observer reports on how the Dzawada'enuxw of British Columbia have filed suit against Canada over fish farm development.

Angela DeMontigny is the first Indigenous fashion designer in residence at Ryerson University, CBC reports.

Global News reports on how Sharon McIvor, founder of the first healing lodge in the Canadian correction system, says government interference has undermined its nearly completely.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explains the astounding brilliance of distant quasar J043947.08+163415.7, as bright as ten trillion suns.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers elements of her personal style. (It makes me wonder about revising my own, to be perhaps more flamboyant.)

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber links to a Guardian article of his, imagining a democratic socialist Australia in 2050.

The Dragon's Tales links to Project Lyra, a proposal for a rendezvous mission to 'Oumuamua.

Far Outliers places the Three Gorges Dam construction, and the mass population displacements involved, in the context of a long Chinese history of like relocations.

Gizmodo examines a paper suggesting, based in part on lunar impact rates, an increase in the numbers of asteroids colliding with Earth in the era 300 million years ago.

JSTOR Daily looks at the watchers, the now-forgotten profession of women who would attend to the dying.

The NYR Daily looks at the problems that women encounter in getting their medical concerns taken seriously.

Towleroad writes about sex advisor Alexander Cheves.

Window on Eurasia notes a report that the inhabitants of the Belarus village of Oslyanka, transferred from Russia in 1964, have no wish to be transferred back.

Arnold Zwicky notes the publication of a study of the English auxiliary system begun by his late colleague Ivan Sag.

Centauri Dreams celebrates the arrival, and successful data collection, of New Horizons at Ultima Thule, as does Joe. My. God., as does
Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog. Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explained, before the New Horizons flyby of Ultima Thule, why that Kuiper Belt object was so important for planetary science.

In advance of the New Year's, Charlie Stross at Antipope asked his readers to let him know what good came in 2018.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber makes the argument that, in the event of a Brexit bitterly resented by many Labour supporters, the odds that they will support a post-Brexit redistributionist program that would aid predominantly pro-Brexit voters are low.

Bruce Dorminey notes that many Earth-like worlds might be made uninhabitable over eons by the steady warming of their stars, perhaps dooming any hypothetical extraterrestrial civilizations on these planets.

Far Outliers looks at the patterns of early Meiji Japan relations with Korea, noting an 1873 invasion scare.

L.M. Sacasas writes at The Frailest Thing, inspired by the skepticism of Jacques Ellul, about a book published in 1968 containing predictions about the technological world of 2018. Motives matter.

Imageo looks at the evidence from probes and confirms that, yes, it does in fact snow (water) on Mars.

The Island Review interviews author Adam Nicolson about his family's ownership of the Hebridean Shiant Isles. What do they mean for him, as an author and as someone experience with the sea?

JSTOR Daily looks at the long history of the human relationship with leather, as a pliable material for clothing of all kinds.

Language Hat considers the possibility that the New Year's greeting "bistraynte", used in Lebanon and by Christians in neighbouring countries, might come from the Latin "strenae".

Language Log notes the pressure being applied against the use of Cantonese as a medium of instruction in Hong Kong.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the many reasons why a considerable number of Latinos support Donald Trump.

Bernard Porter at the LRB Blog comes up with an explanation as to Corbyn's refusal to oppose Brexit.

Marginal Revolution notes the many problems involved with the formation of supply chains in Africa, including sheer distance.

The NYR Daily has a much-needed reevaluation of the Jonestown horror as not simply a mass suicide.

Author Peter Watts writes about a recent trip to Tel Aviv.

At Out There, Corey Powell writes about how planetary scientists over the decades have approached their discipline, expecting to be surprised.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shared some top images collected by Hubble in 2018.

Strange Company looks at the strange 1953 death of young Roman woman Wilma Montesi. How did she die, leaving her body to be found on a beach?

Window on Eurasia notes how Circassian refugees in Syria are asking for the same expedited status that Ukrainian refugees have received.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell takes an extended look at the politics of 4G and Huawei and the United Kingdom and transatlantic relations over the past decade.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look, in language and cartoons, at "Jesus fuck".

The Fashion History Museum, based in Cambridge, had for the month of November a pop-up at the Toronto Media Arts Centre, Dressing Toronto. This show took a look at the history of readymade fashion in Toronto from the 19th century on, concentrating particularly on the era of mass shopping and named designers that began after the Second World War. This exhibit certainly got me interested in what else the Fashion History Museum has to offer.

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Bad Astronomer Phil Plait confirms the discovery of water ice on the Moon.

Centauri Dreams reports on the latest discoveries regarding Beta Pictoris b, notably new evidence that it is a superjovian massing between 9 and 13 Jupiters.

D-Brief notes how oil rigs can support coral reefs.

Far Outliers takes a grim look at the Chinese market in servants and serfs and slaves.

Hornet Stories looks at opinion polling on minorities in Germany. (Gay people do much better than Muslims.)

JSTOR Daily looks at how makeup, at the start of the 20th century highly stigmatized, ended up going mainstream.

Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca considers if Crazy Rich Asians, and other like pop culture successes, might get more Westerners to learn Chinese.

The Map Room Blog shares pictures from space of the smoke produced by the British Columbia wildfires.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer takes a look at the way, in federal Mexico, state-level political machines continue to work.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how, in the very early universe, the first elements formed.

Window on Eurasia notes that in Bashkortostan, two-thirds of students opted for Russian-medium education, a proportion considerably above the proportion of ethnic Russians in that republic.

This older report notes Statistics Canada data suggesting that, of all the major cities in Canada, Montréal is the most trilingual. The Toronto Star has it.

This paper/u> in Medicine Anthropology Theory by Gabriel Girard takes a look at how the HIV/AIDS epidemic is memorialized, and where, in Montréal's Village gay.

Ici Radio-Canada reports on how Montréal is hoping to use green spaces old and new to fight warming temperatures.

Movie-making in Montréal offers benefits but also drawbacks for local film and theatre. CTV News reports.

CultMTL shares some photos of the fashion worn by Osheaga attendees this weekend past. I think I may have seen some of them went I went exploring after the remnants of Expo 67 on Ile Sainte-Hélène.

At Anthropology.net, Kambiz Kamrani notes evidence that Australopithecus africanus suffered the same sorts of dental issues as modern humans.

Architectuul considers, in the specific context of Portugal, a project by architects seeking to create new vehicles and new designs to enable protest.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at HD 34445, a Sun-like star somewhat older than our own that has two gas giants within its circumstellar habitable zone. Could these worlds have moons which could support life?

James Bow celebrates Osgoode as Gold, the next installment in the Toronto Comics anthology of local stories.

At Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell in the wake of Italian elections revisits the idea of post-democratic politics, of elections which cannot change things.

D-Brief notes that monkeys given ayahuasca seem to have been thereby cured of their depression. Are there implications for humans, here?

Dangerous Minds notes the facekini, apparently a popular accessory for Chinese beach-goers.

Imageo notes the shocking scale of snowpack decline in the western United States, something with long-term consequences for water supplies.

JSTOR Daily notes a paper suggesting that the cultivation of coffee does not harm--perhaps more accurately, need not harm--biodiversity.

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the potential of the United States to start to extricate itself from the ongoing catastrophe in Yemen.

The NYR Daily features an interview with photographer Dominique Nabokov about her photos of living rooms.

Drew Rowsome writes a mostly-positive review of the new drama Rise, set around a high school performance of Spring Awakening. If only the lead, the drama teacher behind the production, was not straight-washed.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the case that there are only three major types of planets, Terran and Neptunian and Jovian.

Towleroad notes the awkward coming out of actor Lee Pace.

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative suggests one way to try to limit the proliferation of guns would be to engineer in planned obsolescence, at least ensuring turnover.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell U>notes that one of his suggestions, ensuring that different national governments should have access to independent surveillance satellites allowing them to accurately evaluate situations on the ground, is in fact being taken up.

The vigil that Toronto's Metropolitan Community Church is holding tonight for the victims of the Church and Wellesley serial killer sounds necessary, meaningful. CBC reports.

Vjosa Isai reported yesterday about a string of unsolved murders committed against gay men in the late 1970s in Toronto. I'm impressed; this is the first time I've come across mention of these victims since I read their names in digitized copies of the Body Politic. The article is at the Toronto Star.

The confidence of John Ibbitson that Church and Wellesley's LGBTQ identity will remain fixed is bracing. The Globe and Mail has it.

The refusal of Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Cecil Clarke to accept being blackmailed and to instead come it is good news, an item that made international headlines, for instance at Queerty.

Is flannel tired as a lesbian signifier? I wonder. Thoughts? VICE starts a discussion.

The Megabus drop-off point in Manhattan happens to be just outside the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology at West 27th and 7th. I had actually visited the place in 2012, and thought this location a good omen, so I popped inside.

The Body: Fashion and Physique, running until May, examines the ways in which fashion designers have traditionally tried to make the human body malleable for their fashions. The displayed clothing has an emphasis on how more recent designers are trying to be more inclusive of body diversity, or at least on the appearance of this tendency of late. (Featuring the famous Christian Siriano dress worn by Leslie Jones was a great idea!)

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Spacing's Chris Bateman has an amusing piece about Toronto's first experiments with computer dating, in 1957.

Edward Keenan makes the case that Toronto should prepare for the consequences of the housing market finally tanking, over at the Toronto Star.

blogTO notes an impressive design for a new multi-function community centre down at Canoe Landing.

Michelle Da Silva describes, at NOW Toronto, what looks like a spectacular exhibit of the works of Christian Dior at the ROM.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the discovery of Ross 128 b, a nearby exoplanet that looks like it actually might be plausibly very Earth-like.

blogTO notes that, after a decade, the east entrance of the Royal Ontario Museum is finally going to be an entrance again.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the importance of self-care, of making time to experience pleasure.

Crooked Timber shares some of the 1871 etchings of Gustave Doré, fresh from the Paris Commune.

Daily JSTOR notes how one man's collection of old tin cans tells a remarkable story about the settlement of the United States.

Dangerous Minds shares a vintage 1980 television report on the Los Angeles punk scene.

The Dragon's Gaze notes a recent study of chemical abundances around Kronos and Krios, two very similar stars near each other, these abundances suggesting they are just forming planetary systems.

Gizmodo shares a revealing new table of exoplanets, one that brings out all sorts of interesting patterns and types.

Hornet Stories notes Courtney Love's efforts to fundraise for LGBTQ homeless youth.

Joe. My. God. notes that Margaret Court, an Australian tennis star now more famous for her homophobia, called for Australia to ignore the postal vote for marriage equality.

Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the point that Trump's Russian links are important to explore, not least because they reveal the spreading influence of kleptocracy.

Lingua Franca shares a perhaps over-stereotypical take on languages being caught between drives for purity and for diversity.

The LRB Blog notes the murder of Honduran environmental activist Berta Cácares.

The Map Room Blog links to an interesting collection of links to future and alternate-history mass transit maps of Melbourne.

The NYR Daily links to an interesting exhibit about disposable fashion like the simple T-shirt.

Roads and Kingdoms notes a remarkable performance of a Beatles song in the hill country of West Bengal.

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[NEWS] News from around the world: Cheetos fashion, Gaspé yaks, NL slavery, Lebanon comics, Netflix

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: grocery games, real estate, housing, Shermans, Goldy

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[NEWS] Five #Indigenous links: land ownership, astronomy, Pueblo, transgender, MakadeMigize

[NEWS] Five Canadian culture links: Ontario, French's, Sealfest, Beauty in a Box, oilpatch & drugs

[URBAN NOTE] Five Tornoto links: homelessness, cohabiting, TTC, fashion, Brooke Lynn Hytes

[NEWS] Five Indigenous links: Bantford quinoa, Listuguj, Dwawada'enuxw, DeMontigny, healing lodges

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[PHOTO] Ten photos from Dressing Toronto (#dressingtoronto)

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five Montréal links: language, HIV/AIDS in the village, heat, movies, Osheaga

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: crime, Church and Wellesley, politics, Cape Breton, flannel

[PHOTO] Thirteen photos from The Body: Physique and Fashion, at the Museum at FIT (@museumatfit)

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto links: computer dating, real estate, Canoe Landing, Christian Dior

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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