The Race by Clive Cussler The race is an exciting novel which takes place at the turn of the century. Isaac Bell is one of the top agents for the Van Dorn Detective Agency which has been hired by newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway to protect Josephine Frost from her husband while she flies […]
Here is something that has wide appeal. The TedTalks video site emanates from TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading". TED started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together inspiring thinkers from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. This incredible site now boasts over 900 recordings of speakers talking on topics from […]
This picture of the Brick Works was taken on a May day from the path that circles the upper edge of the park. The first time I walked up here, I kept saying to myself [once I was able to breathe again, that is]: "This is absolutely gorgeous! I can't believe that I am right […]
Are you one of those Torontonians who are willing to drive for hours for the pleasure of diving into a cool, clean Canadian lake? How would you feel if you knew that you could have the same experience for the price of a token? Yes, I'm talking about taking a trip to one of Toronto's […]
Toronto's Pug Award nominees [celebrating the best in Toronto architecture] were released in early May and we are proud to say that the beautifully renovated and re-imagined Bloor Gladstone Branch is on the list. One nice thing about these awards is that your vote counts in determining who makes it into the Hall of Fame […]
Most of us are familiar with the harried looking student who comes to the Reference Desk and announces that they have a paper due tomorrow and they still need to prepare the bibliography. Sure you can refer them to any of the style guides, but isn't there something that can really help? EasyBib is […]
Ah, Yonge Street – that loved and loathed thoroughfare that, for better or for worse, is Toronto's main street. Recently, there seem to have been an unusual number of articles about Yonge Street, including a recent post from Spacing Toronto that questioned its claim to fame as 'the longest street in the world'. […]
The Frank Gehry-designed expansion and renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario has been one of the more critically well-received Toronto building projects of the last few years [unlike the ROM's Crystal, for example, which has had a much more mixed reaction]. If you want to find out more about the whole process of how […]
I am reading Shawn Micallef’s book Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and when I started to write this post, I was going to discuss something the author was asked in an interview in blogTO – what would be some of the favourite places he would take a visitor to? [One of his top picks […]
When you say 'I might go downtown on Saturday', what do you mean? Are you going to the Eaton Centre/Yonge-Dundas Square area? City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square? Or do you mean you are going out to a club in the Entertainment District? A recent post in blogTO discussed whether King Street between John and Peter might really […]