Children’s author, performer, and former librarian, Theo Heras, recently unveiled her newest needlepoint project, Pandora’s Pandemic Box. It is part of her series of needlepoint works called Words in Wool. At LT we love our librarians so we met up with Heras to discuss her version of that ill-omened box.
I had expected that having a child would affect my view of the city and my relationship to it. What I hadn’t expected was how exactly this change would manifest itself. I had hoped… Continue reading
With each snip of the pruning shears, a branch of the grapevine falls from the pergola to the ground, followed moments later by droplets of sap. The gnarled stems easily betray a half-century of life. Twisted and bent they cling to the tarnished metal rods and steel pipes like a veil of memories… Continue reading
Photo essay by Schuster Gindin. Home in Toronto. Continue reading
How does living in London compare to living in Toronto? Colin Leys has inhabited both cities over a number of years and has some thought-provoking and amusing insights into Old World versus New World living. Continue reading
Look to the skyline and see the cranes towering and swinging back and forth as if speaking to each other as they pass. They arrive in pairs or small groups, some are solitary. Who summoned them? Is there a plan? When they disappear from the skyline, what will they leave behind? Will we remember what … Continue reading
Look in all our sidebar spots, Going Out, Staying In and What’s Here, for more new articles. Continue reading
In between our quarterly themed issues we post articles every week – have a look at the newest… Continue reading
Vincenzo Pietropaolo, a Toronto-based photographer, author and former city planner gave the Annual Leo Srole Urban Studies Lecture at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York on April 19, 2012. Here’s what he said. Continue reading
Construction workers below grade at a site on Yonge St north of Dundas as they begin the tower. Continue reading
THE DEMISE OF A LOCAL LANDMARK
History and reminiscences by Debbie Nyman, Larry Swartz and Elizabeth Cinello. Photos by Elizabeth Cinello. Continue reading
Condo construction downtown seems an overnight transformation of our city. Meanwhile the speed at which the city moves to direct and control growth seems glacial. What can chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat do? Continue reading
Birds are flocking to the environmentally green construction on Rosemount Avenue in the St. Clair Avenue West neighbourhood. Designed by Toronto artist and sculptor Alex Moyle, you’ll find it on the grassy knoll behind Oakwood Collegiate near the school’s worm-friendly field. It sits on a three-meter-high stand and reaches a height of six meters. The well-treed enclave is an ideal location … Continue reading
This new way of living after many years in a house has been both challenging and exciting. The whole downsizing enterprise was unquestionably tedious, sad but ultimately… Continue reading
“I drove past five cranes and three excavations, a huge hole in the ground, just empty space, four streets reduced to one lane of traffic, four closed sidewalks… and that was just today on my way downtown.”
Everywhere you look, this is what you see. Continue reading
Lots of great stuff out there.
Have a look… Continue reading
LIVING TORONTO 