blogTO's Amy Grief looks at the speculation in Koreatown as to what will happen to this Bloor West neighbourhood after Honest Ed's and Mirvish Village are gone.

Mirvish Village is vacant and Honest Ed's had its big goodbye party this past weekend. The end is nigh for the southwest corner of Bloor and Bathurst as the wrecking ball slowly swoops in ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Conrad Black's mansion is up for sale, and looks inside the climbing gym that replaced Koreatown's Metro Theatre.
• Centauri Dreams notes a new telescope optimized for detecting, among other things, Kuiper Belt objects.
• Dangerous Minds shares a video of South African cyclists chased by an ostrich.
• Far Outliers notes the existence of a ( Read more... )

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• blogTO notes a house on downtown Toronto's Jersey Avenue, a near-laneway, that is on the market at nearly eight hundred thousand dollars.
• Centauri Dreams warns that with the passage of Dawn and New Horizons and Cassini, an era of unmanned space exploration will come to an end.
• Crooked Timber's Belle Waring considers Western/Asian cultural differences ( Read more... )

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Torontoist's Kaitlyn Kochany reacts to the Fabricland in Honest Ed's, erected in the basement and set to last along with the store. It's a nice essay about a changing neighbourhood and a homey topic.

Toronto’s newest Fabricland-and at 16,000 square feet, also its largest-is located in the basement of Honest Ed’s, at the corner of Bloor Street West ( Read more... )

This colourful portrait is painted on the side of Umji Bunsik, one of my favourite Korean restaurants at 615 Bloor Street West and a famed maker of famed pork bone soup. Visible in the close-up, to left by the palm tree, is a passage in hangul that I'm told by a Korean-speaking friend is two street names, "Christie Ossington", referring to two ( Read more... )

The Metro Theatre, located at 677 Bloor Street West squarely in the middle of downtown Toronto's Little Korea, is a classic porn theatre, Toronto's last porn theatre. Decades after transitioning from a perfectly respectable children-suitable movie theatre to something seedier, subject of a breathless review in blogTO in 2009 and complaints from ( Read more... )

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