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• Toronto's Mayor - Funnier Than Fiction.

  

  photo: The Globe Mail Here's a hilarious editorial by the Globe and Mail's Elizabeth Renzetti. Recently returned from London, she finds Toronto's mayor and hi... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT

• Café De Flore - Un Film Fantastique

  

  The themes of music and love tie Paris in the 60s together with contemporary Montreal and wrap the whole story up in a completing knot in the last seconds of th... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pays to Listen to Your Mother - Renoir Found at Flea Market

  

  Renoir found at Virginia Flea Market Possible Renoir found: Virginia woman's flea market find for sale at Potomack Company Personally we've made a couple of... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Hotel Belvedere

  

  Wow. I finally got out of town for a night. If you're anything like me - and I think you are - I don't find the cookie-cutter uniformity of (dare I say it)... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Empty Nest

  

  I'd been fighting off the sentiment first heard in a cheese-slice commercial since he was in Junior Kindergarten - "he's growing up and I wish he would stay..."... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Boyd Gang: Toronto Outlaws - Continued

  

  Hours before Lennie Jackson and Steve Suchan were to be brought to court to answer for Detective Tong’s murder, the Boyd Gang staged a second dramatic escape... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Boyd Gang: Toronto's Outlaws - Part 1

  

  Daring Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his gang burst onto the front pages of Toronto newspapers due to a series of well-executed bank robberies and two breakouts from... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Red Admiral Butterflies, Cherry Blossom, May 4th 2012

  

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  Posted on 04 May 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• If Today Were May 1st, 1932

  

  and you didn't know what to cook for supper you might rely on a book like the one I have; A Year's Dinners: 365 Seasonable Dinners With Instructions for Cooking... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 CULTURE

• Desolation Row

  

  Richelle Forsey Straight out of a scary teen novel is the abandoned Canada Linseed Mills. Built in 1910, it's been sitting abandoned on Wabash Avenue, about a... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 ARCHITECTURE

• Undone

  

  An intimate warmth predominates James Tissot’s The Shop Girl (1883-1885). The shaded interior makes the viewer feel like an elite insider. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Rooney Mara Vs Noomi Rapace

  

  Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara, whose names are almost anagrams of each other, are actors who both play Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish and Hollywood versions of... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• A Red-Admiral Day

  

  It seems today is the day when all the Red Admiral butterflies in my neighbourhood hatch. I must have seen 25 or 30 while walking the dog today. I've got four i... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Buy - Amnesty International's Chimes of Freedom - The Songs of Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan's first studio album came out 50 years ago this year. Amnesty International is also commemorating fifty years since its inception. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• The Rain in Spain

  

  First I noticed North Americans pronouncing words as if they were from London's East End. "Buh'n" for Button. "Badmind'n" for Badminton. Then I had a wee rant... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Renoir at His Easel - Live.

  

  via nickwallacesmith's Youtube. Here's an actual film of a frail-looking Renoir at his easel. His hands were so crippled with rheumatoid arthritis he... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Hidden Van Gogh

  

  Photo: Associated Press Thursday, July 28, 1886. To Theo Van Gogh from Antwerp "My dear Theo... This week I painted a large thing with two nude torsos - two... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Around My Home - Green and Leafy

  

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  Posted on 19 March 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL

• Georges Méliès - The Inspiration for HUGO

  

  Scene from Hugo, Paramount Pictures I first posted this story 2 years ago. I've just returned from seeing Martin Scorsese's Hugo and I hadn't realized that the... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TRAVEL

• Find Your Inner Phileas Fogg

  

  If you feel like giving into your Steampunk whims - and who doesn't every now and then - I recommend visiting Steampunk Emporium. The creative people that curat... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CULTURE, TRAVEL