Category: Toronto

At the opening of the Michael Lee Chin Crystal

Looking V, originally uploaded by Gavatron. Heather and I had an all-crystal weekend: we attended the street concert last night that marked the opening of the Michael Lee Chin Crystal at the ROM. Today, we returned to Bloor Street to get a look inside the MLC Crystal. While there wern’t any exhibits installed in the […]

Sassafraz on fire and I get my citizen photo-journalist on

Big news in the neighbourhood this afternoon. Today at lunch, I noticed smoke billowing from somewhere in Yorkville. News helicopters started to orbit overhead, so I turned on the news: Sassafraz, an infamous restaurant in the ‘ville was on fire. And what a fire it was: five alarms, a collapsed roof and some great photography […]

Deer heads in Toronto

Hazel with Toronto’s Finest, originally uploaded by bytepusher. Caught a posting about this urban art experiment on blogto.com. Eight people strapped papier-mâché deer heads to their, well, heads and proceeded to walk around Kensington Market and the like. The artistic statement behind this deer crossing was to “to address urban wildlife following the trail of […]