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I yesterday roused myself from home to visit Glad Day Bookshop on the final day of the store's existence at its 598A Yonge Street location. It will be reopening early next week at a new, more accessible and more flexible, location on Church Street. Even so, it was the end of an era: I had to stop by.


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At the Toronto Star, Shawn Micallef takes issue with a private restaurant in the Financial District.

Have you been to the Accountant Zoo, Toronto’s newest downtown attraction? It’s on the northwest corner of Yonge and Adelaide Sts. where people strolling by can watch accountants in their own habitat. It’s not a petting zoo though; the accountants ( Read more... )

Amy Grief's blogTo post about the history of Halloween in Church and Wellesley made mention of Jamie Bradburn's Torontoist essay from last year, "The Egging of Yonge Street". This essay noting how the egging of drag queens outside gay bars on Yonge Street was actually a popular custom lasting into the 1980s, provides some real Halloween horror.

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NOW Toronto's Miles Kenyon reports on the 30th anniversary of Northbound Leather. As I noted earlier this week, Jane Jacobs would be proud at how this local business thrives.

For a self-described pervert, George Giaouris doesn’t look the part. Wearing a sensible polo shirt and translucent, wide frame glasses, the owner of the longest-running ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes a photo series celebrating the corner stores of Toronto and reports on massive condo towers planned for Yonge and College.
• Centauri Dreams notes the antimatter sail as a potential future propulsion technology.
• D-Brief notes the beginning of a search for an Earth-like planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B.
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Jacob Serebrin's article in The Globe and Mail about Northbound Leather tells a fascinating story, about how a local company can, by catering to a specialty audience, thriving while staying local.

Jane Jacobs would be proud.

For Toronto’s Northbound Leather, getting into the fetish-wear market started by being in the right place at the right time ( Read more... )

Metro's Tara Deschamps reports on a perfectly good mural that will be put up on Yonge Street to remind people of the neighbourhood's past.

A 22-storey mural splashed with images of Gordon Lightfoot, Ronnie Hawkins and Oscar Peterson is taking appreciation for Yonge Street’s musical past to new heights ( Read more... )

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