Mars Food
A guy shuffles out of the kitchen with a cornmeal muffin on a plate, puts it in front of me & places a fork & knife on a napkin beside…
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Hubbard Park
I submitted the name “Hubbard” for a new TO park then pestered everyone to vote for that name. And it won! Next I wrote an article for NOW magazine about…
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Dr. R. J. Black D.V.S.
In operation since 1911, with big front doors for letting horses enter (and what appear to be stables in the back), Dr Black’s Veternarian Hospital has no equine clientele these…
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Thunder Thighs
Behind this door you’ll find the most enchanting vintage gowns and the best suits imaginable for a future on Mars. This little cottage is merely a front for a walkway that…
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Graffiti Alley
Home to Rick Mercer’s rants. Some of the best graffiti in Toronto lives in this network of alleyways just south of Queen & west of Spadina. Go have your own…
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Trompe L’oeil Bibliotheque
Transformation of the street furniture next to the Parliament Street Library.
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A History of Healing
St Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto was founded in 1892 by the Sisters of St Joseph. Go in the 30 Bond Street entrance to see masonry from the original building…
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Downtown Mural
In a magical laneway on an enchanted building by the legendary Massey Hall in the fairytale town of Toronto. Make a wish. It will come true. Meow.
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Beet Winter Blues
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables… The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of…
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McQueen, the Queen & Burr
I saw Queen Victoria in the loo at Steve McQueen’s pad in New York City. Really. I also espied her powdering her nose (and wig) at Aaron Burr’s stables right…
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