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Urban Planner: August 27, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
In today's Urban Planner: the Gladstone Hotel Film Festival, open-mic night at Queen Gallery, and Craig Strickland at the Drake. Craig Stickland will do a mini-residency at the Drake in advance of hi...
Photoist: August 27, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Centre Island passengers by AshtonPal Photoist is the first post we publish every weekday morning, featuring an image (or two) by a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
Extra, Extra: TTC Docs, Roller Coasters, and Elaborate Pranks 27 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss. TP20 films, a local maker of YouTube videos for transit nerds, is working on a documentary about TTC e...
Duly Quoted: Rob Ford’s Former Chief of Staff Mark Towhey 26 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
One-time confidante keeping quiet, says conversations inside Ford's office must remain confidential. “I don’t know if there’s a video.” —The mayor’s former chief of staff, Mark Towhey, on whether th...
Rep Cinema This Week: The Play, The Act of Killing, Computer Chess 26 Aug 2013 | 11:15 pm
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. Still from The Play. At rep cinemas this week: a documentary about an all-woman Turk...
City Council Rejects By-Election, Will Appoint a New Councillor for Ward 3 26 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
Councillors vote to appoint a replacement for outgoing councillor Doug Holyday rather than sending residents to the polls. Deputy mayor Doug Holyday at a council meeting last year. The special city ...
Televisualist: I’m Spelling As Wet As I Can 26 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist. This ...
Making and Remaking Hazelton Lanes 26 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Hazelton Lanes, Yorkville's once-glamorous shopping mall, has fallen on hard times—but a planned facelift could give it new life. When it opened in 1976, Hazelton Lanes offered a combination of luxur...
The Rob Ford Radio Recap: Hulkamaniacs 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Every Sunday, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Doug, host The City, a two-hour talk show on Newstalk 1010. We listen so you don't have to. Rob and Doug Ford in the studio. Photo courtesy of Newstalk 1...
Newsstand: August 26, 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 05:23 pm
Last Monday of August. In the news: councillors are back from summer vacation early, police seek a suspect in a terrifying daytime attack, TCHC surveillance cameras at the site of a double shooting we...
