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[BLOG] Five NYR Daily links (@nyrdaily)
Dec. 22nd, 2019 01:25 pm- Claire Messud writes at the NYR Daily about two art exhibits concerned with borders.
- Caitlin Chandler writes at the NYR Daily about the state of the experiment of Germany with mass reception and integration of refugees.
- The NYR Daily explores the modern Russian history of state-sponsored murder outside of its frontiers.
- Moroccan writer Hisham Aldi writes at NYR Daily about his relationship with Paul Bowles.
- The NYR Daily reports on a remarkable exhibit at the Barbican in London of notable nightclubs in 20th century culture.
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[BLOG] Fifteen Toronto links
Dec. 18th, 2019 11:29 am- blogTO reports that Toronto has been testing Eglinton Crosstown trains, here.
- What TTC routes might be changed by the Eglinton Crosstown? A map illustrates, over at blogTO.
- The new tower proposed for 888 Dupont, at Ossington, will even include a vertical farm. blogTO reports.
- Venerable Agincourt Mall is going to be a new condo development. blogTO reports.
- Is co-ownership actually the only way most people in Toronto will end up owning a home? blogTO considers.
- Residential tenants in a Leslieville building who complained about their landlord may end up getting evicted from a building never zoned for residents. CBC reports.
- The City of Toronto has taken over the deserted shopping arcade at Queen Street West and John. CBC reports.
- Katrina Onstad at Toronto Life tells the story of Katharine Mulherin, the Queen Street West gallery owner who changed her neighbourhood but was broken by gentrification.
- The bar Tequila Bookworm is closing, displaced by rising rents. NOW Toronto reports.
- NOW Toronto interviews night mayor Michael Thompson, here.
- Steve Munro considers the TTC's express bus services, here.
- Terra Lumina, the nighttime cultural event at the Toronto Zoo, looks fantastic in these photos over at Toronto Life.
- Oh, what the map of Toronto subways could have been if only we planned! blogTO shares one.
- Steve Munro examines the TTC's plan for 2020-2024, here.
- The TTC may not act to decrease overcrowding on some routes. blogTO reports on why.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 13th, 2019 01:51 pm- The Pilot, in Yorkville, celebrates its 75th anniversary as a venue. Global News reports.
- Some immigrant businesspeople recently bought an old Toronto Hydro building in the north of the city as a shelter for immigrants. Global News reports.
- The backlash against the proposed condo tower at Yonge and Eglinton branded by Pharrell Williams has been swift. blogTO reports.
- Urban Toronto notes that a 13-story mixed-use building has been proposed for 888 Dupont Street, at the corner of Dupont and Ossington.
- A TV crew in North York last week cancelled its shoot in North York, near the site of last year's ramming attack on Yonge Street. CTV News reports.
- A poster on r/Toronto noted last week the six-year anniversary of the admission of then-mayor Rob Ford that he smoked crack.
[PHOTO] "The Pope and Doctor"
Nov. 12th, 2019 12:19 pmThis sign advertises the parish pub of St. Vincent de Paul.
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto notes
Oct. 30th, 2019 03:07 pm- Matt Gurney wonders if the losses of votes for the Conservatives in the Greater Toronto Area will doom Andrew Scheer, over at the National Post.
- Jamie Bradburn took a look at the opening of the Ontario Science Centre, here.
- Spacing shares an argument for density transition zones in Toronto, here.
- The Village Idiot Pub in Toronto, across Dundas from the AGO, will rebrand itself the Village Genius. Global News reports.
- Queen and Coxwell will soon host some new affordable housing. Global News reports.
- The closure of a flea market on Old Weston road, a year after a tragic shooting, is a shame. The Toronto Star
- I am going to see at least some of the works in this year's Toronto Biennial. NOW Toronto reports.
- Tanya Mok at blogTO shares a vintage short film from 1970 at the Toronto Coach Terminal, "Depot."
- The shortages of food in Toronto food banks are terrible. CBC Toronto reports.
- Dogs will be free to swim in select City of Toronto swimming pools this weekend. CBC Toronto reports.
- I will have to look for these TTC floor stickers installed at St. George station. blogTO reports.
- Richard Trapunski leads a roundtable discussion at NOW Toronto about the challenges facing party promoters in a gentrifying Toronto.
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- The story of Toronto nightclub Zanzibar is, indeed, a fascinating one. (Soon to go, with the rest of Yonge Street.) The Toronto Star has it.
- Will gentrification undermine Chinatown, downtown on Spadina Avenue? Global News reports.
- The Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue, is set to be radically transformed by development. blogTO reports.
- Oh, why not allow for the sale of beer at some convenience stores in TTC stops? blogTO has it.
- Alireza Nareghi looks in MacLean's at the threat posed to the ravine environments of Toronto by invasive species, and at what is being done to save them.
- The Conversation notes how Canadian cities need new revenue sources as their economies evolve.
- Can Canada learn from a New Jersey trying to move homes and residents out of flood-prone areas? CBC reports.
- CityLab looks at how St. Louis is finally removing the artificial concrete barriers blocking its streets and neighbourhoods.
- The controversial "new towns" of the United Kingdom are the subject of this Guardian Cities feature.
- Bloomberg looks at how second-tier cities in China like Wuhan are also competing for white-collar migrants.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how urban architecture can be made to work better.
- CityLab looks at the extent to which Millennials in North America really do like cities, and why.
- CityLab examines the various reasons why Americans have become less mobile than many before, from a love for their community to note being able to move.
- This Guardian Cities article looking at how British cities have become dependent on alcohol sales and nightclubbing, despite the social toll, is disturbing.
- Justin Fox at Bloomberg looks at how cities like Buffalo and Pittsburgh can thrive despite losing population.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Queerty profiles the new permanent exhibition in Miami of mid-20th century photographer George Daniell, whose works often including queer subjects date back to the 1940s.
- Mike Miksche writes at Slate about the import of the Black Party in New York City in 1989, for partying gay and bi men in the era of AIDS.
- This extended interview with Troye Sivan at The Guardian exposes a lot of this out star.
- This VICE interview with Contrapoints star Natalie Wynn makes me want to start watching her, now, on YouTube.
- John Aravosis is quite right to argue, at The Daily Beast, that arguing Pete Buttigieg is not gay enough is ridiculous.
- The Toronto Star looks at how buildings destined for demolition for condos are, in the interim, enjoying some innovative alternative uses.
- CBC Toronto takes a look at the efforts of photographer Jon Simo, owner of Neon Demon Studios, to preserve and promote neon signs. (I went to the pop-up museum this weekend; photos to come.)
- Toronto Life shares old photos of the Drake Hotel predating its transformation into a west-end hub.
- blogTO lists the best, and the worst, Pizza Pizza locations in Toronto.
- blogTO shares photos of Let's Survive Together, the Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror room bought by the AGO for its permanent collection.
[BLOG] Some Monday links
Apr. 1st, 2019 01:38 pm- Bad Astronomy shares Hubble images of asteroid 6478 Gault, seemingly in the process of dissolving.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the experience of living in a body one knows from hard experience to be fallible.
- Gizmodo notes new evidence that environmental stresses pushed at least some Neanderthals to engage in cannibalism.
- Hornet Stories notes the 1967 raid by Los Angeles police against the Black Cat nightclub, a pre-Stonewall trigger of LGBTQ organization.
- Imageo notes the imperfect deal wrought by Colorado Basin states to minimize the pain felt by drought in that river basin.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the cinema of Claire Denis.
- Language Log reports on the work of linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a man involved in language revival efforts in Australia after work in Israel with Hebrew.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if the Iran-Contra scandal will be a precedent for the Mueller report, with the allegations being buried by studied inattention.
- Marginal Revolution makes a case for NIMBYism leading to street urination.
- Justin Petrone at North! looks at a theatrical performance of a modern Estonian literary classic, and what it says about gender and national identity.
- Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw makes the case for a treaty with Australian Aborigines, to try to settle settler-indigenous relations in Australia.
- John Quiggin looks at the factors leading to the extinction of coal as an energy source in the United Kingdom.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that we are not yet up to the point of being able to detect exomoons of Earth-like planets comparable to our Moon.
- Window on Eurasia notes the occasion of the last singer in the Ket language.
- Arnold Zwicky shares some cartoon humour, around thought balloons.
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[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Mar. 30th, 2019 12:45 pm- Architectuul profiles the construction of the Modern Berlin Temple built to a design by Mies van der Rohe in 1968.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the beauty of galaxy M61.
- D-Brief notes new evidence that Mars sustained rivers on its surface at a surprising late date.
- Gizmodo notes a theory that the oddly shaped ring moons of Saturn might be product of a collision.
- Hornet Stories suggests/u> that recent raids on gay bars in New Orleans might be driven by internecine politics within the LGBTQ community.
- Joe. My. God. notes that a court in the Cayman Islands has recently legalized same-sex marriage there.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the origins of the Chipko activists of 1960s and 1970s India, whose tree-hugging helped save forests there.
- Language Log notes the story of Beau Jessep, who got rich off of a business creating English names for Chinese children.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money, looking at the introduction of public healthcare in Saskatchewan and wider Canada, notes the great institutional differences that do not make that a close model for public healthcare in the US now.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the close relationship over time between population growth and economic and technological change.
- Roads and Kingdoms interviews documentary filmmaker Nadir Bouhmouch about a Amazigh community's resistance to an intrusive mine on their territory.
- The Russian Demographics Blog notes, correctly, that one reason why Ukrainians are more prone to emigration to Europe and points beyond than Russians is that Ukraine has long been included, in whole or in part, in European states.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that we still do not know why antimatter does not dominate in our universe.
- Understanding Society features a guest post from Indian sociologist V.K. Ramachandran talking about two visits four decades apart to one of his subjects.
- Vintage Space makes a compelling case for people not to be afraid of nuclear rockets in space, like the vintage never-deployed NERVA.
- Window on Eurasia takes issue with the bilingual radio programs aired in Russian republics, which subtly undermine local non-Russian languages.
- Arnold Zwicky starts with lilacs, which include hybrids tolerant of the California climate, and goes on to explore lavender in all of its glories, queer and otherwise.
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- Them writes about the importance of queer spaces like coffee shops where people can gather while being sober.
- Folio links to a fascinating study examining why professional hockey players have not come out, and what might make them do so.
- JSTOR Daily reports on the fascinating process of recovering black queer history through researching articles in sensationalist magazines.
- Hornet Stories describes the fascinating, disastrous history of closeted New York City mayor Ed Koch.
- A controversy over the headlining of Ariana Grande at 2019 Manchester Pride led to a debate to questions of queer representation on Pride stages. Global News reports.
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- Plans for a residential development in Kingston's west-end Graceland district have raised environmental concerns. Global News reports.
- HuffPostQuebec shares the exciting plans for expanding and modernizing the complex around the Oratoire Saint-Joseph.
- CityLab notes how, despite having a declining black population, Chicago is set to elect a black mayor.
- VICE looks at the bars and nightclubs in uptown New Orleans that, in the 1970s, hosted the city's jazz and funk scenes.
- Guardian Cities reports on the murga, the latest dance/pop culture craze in Buenos Aires.
