Fredrica Tomas has an impish, almost sacro-sacked sense of humor – but unlike Alex “Runt” Currie painted stylings, Frederica’s linoleum cuts are more subtle and plucky with their humor. Take the first three images above , each is like 17th century pen and ink graphic with a twisting pun in contrast to the Runt’s bawdy …
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As a printmaker, Todd Munro seems a bit obsessive about an obsessive subject – cars: Todd Munro has an asymmetrical obsession with cars. There is a touch of wonder, a bit of whimsy and also the heated hues of antagonism. It is a divergent response with wire-wrapped, driverless cars that float and glide like fish …
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Gareth Lichty is a structural sculptor with innovative visions. His designs work well at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition where the bright sunshine highlights the outlines of his wood sculptures and give contrast and dinosaur-skin depth to the texture of his clay pieces which like giant armadillo or thick-skinned gila monsters. There is certainly a …
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The Royal Winter Fair is on this week in Toronto with Dog Show, all sorts of Horse Shows and competitions, plus extras like magic displays and culinary exhibits. It is an Ontario Tradition plus the natural end to the farm season – and brings participants from across the province as well as from the City …
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The end of Fall is near. Fall’s Color Tango with the Wind and Winter This year Fall has lasted longer for some trees and brushes. Sumac, that last year had lost all color by Thanksgiving, are still clinging to some saucy hues. Despite the colder evenings , the drenching rains and trees whipped by nasty …
These images were taken in Toronto at the end of the Summer. Your mission is to identify where. The first to add a comment to this posting correctly identifying the street intersections by October 20th, 2010 wins a Panasonic Lumix 10x zoom camera plus 2 postings of their favorite Toronto Pictures+Story on this website. Here …
Where in TO are we to catch these scenes: Out of the Fog Something Fishy about This? Its Music in a Concert of Colors It is a Fantasy Night Ride It is the Bright Lights It is Caramel Corn – Plenty of It It is the Princess Gates Yep ….. it is TheX !!
Buskers and I have a number of things in  common. PixofToronto is free; and Busker performances are mostly free … well ScotiaBank seems to be double dipping – doing a charity blitz [Epilepsy Foundation this year] and leaving the Buskers begging for bread. I beg for bread but in Web development – PixofToronto is one …
Caribana this year was  blessed with good weather, lots of great bands, and some of the best decorated floats – the latter seem to get better with each passing year. There was a huge turnout at CNE Exhibition Place where all the floats and bands marshaled and got started. However, the biggest crowds were along Lakeshore …
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This weekend of the G2 summit and Luminato, some of the best fun in TO is available down at the Toronto Islands. First of all there is the Toronto Islands Dragonboat Festival where the big news is that the junior boats fro the high schools are setting down some race times that many a senior …
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Luminato has taken some time “to get its rhythm” as the World Cuppers say it. But some of the shows this year are proof that Luminato is gaining full creative stride. Take Waves created at/by YCT-Young Centre Theater in the Distillery District. Lots of music, singing and dancing – much of it in inspired participatory …
There is a stretch of alleys and bars along Queen Street West that are festooned with some of the best wall paintings in Toronto. But on Janes Walk I got a  big surprise at Cameron House on Queen West where one of my favorite bistro wall paintings, a most nifty portrait that cleverl uses the …
Ever get that burning curiosity? You must see what that often-passed place looks like on the inside – or in a new light. Doors Open Toronto provides that free  opportunity again this mid Spring, the weekend of  Saturday May 29th and Sunday May 30th. There are 150 venues across Toronto from Black Creek Village through …
Think of  returning to high school or a home city you have moved away from 5 or 10 years ago and that was the feeling of my first visit to the ROM-Royal Ontario Museum in in almost a decade. Well five years ago I visited the ROM just about every day through Summer and Fall …
A week before Easter, Stone Church on Davenport just west of Yonge was offering the play Close by Romeo Ciolfi. The play is an adaption of the Crucifixion Gospel put into a contemporary setting. Close has many symmetries including the layout of the stage, clever matched lighting, criminals gone wrong by conviction and desperation, and …
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Janes Walk 2010 is coming to Toronto on the weekend of May 1st and 2nd. And Torontonians can anticipate having dozens of walks for people to take. Just visit Jane’s Walk website here for the expanding line up of walks. Below is a typical listing: These are rain or shine walks – with an umbrella …
Massey and Munk are two distinguished colleges on campus with literary and international political pretensions … uhh orientations respectively. I say pretensions because you have to ask to get in to see the inner court at Massey [no luck this year, good fortune two years ago, no gatemaster around in some previous Falls]. Massey has …
Robarts Library is such a battlefield bulwark of information and books, it straddles Harbord and St. George like a concrete fortress formidable and impregnable [if you are not a UofT student just try to get in]. Robarts also dominates the architectural surrounds so Innis College has to sidle and persuade passerbies to not do so …