Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Richard “Creative Class” Florida Moving to Accordion City

Richard Florida is moving to Accordion City! The urban thinker who coined the term "creative class" is following in Jane…

17 years ago

R.I.P. “Honest” Ed Mirvish

Accordion City lost one of its characters early this morning: "Honest" Ed Mirvish, supersalesman, shop-owner, theatre impresario and philanthropist died…

17 years ago

Hardcore About Hopscotch

The Ginger Ninja and I were doing a little dog-sitting for a friend last Saturday. While taking the dog for…

17 years ago

The “Hemp on Wheels” Truck

While wandering around High Park on Monday -- which was a holiday, thanks to the Canada Day long weekend --…

17 years ago

Toronto to Boston Flight Lands Safely After Landing Gear Failure

Although I generally prefer taking Air Canada on my Toronto-Boston flights (my reasons being that the jets are more roomy…

17 years ago

Burger Quest

Ex-pat Texan A.G. Pasquella, whom I've known since 1992 (we went to Crazy Go Nuts University together) is searching Accordion…

17 years ago

Oral Fixation Disposal Device

Here's a combination gum disposal and ashtray I saw just outside the CHIN building in Accordion City's Little Italy neighbourhood…

17 years ago

"The Behaviour of Houses": This Thursday at the Brunswick Theatre

This Thursday, May 10th at 7:00 p.m., my friends from Crazy Go Nuts University David W. Scott and Andrea Medovarski…

18 years ago

Open Coffee Thursday

I'm going to simply quote the announcement: What is Open Coffee? A weekly informal opportunity for the startup scene (entrepreneurs,…

18 years ago

DemoCamp 13 Tomorrow

The 13th DemoCamp -- the regular show-and-tell gathering for Toronto and area's developers, businesspeople and creatives -- takes place tomorrow…

18 years ago