Festivals
International Festival of Performance Art
XPACE Cultural Centre is one of the participating venues in the 8th biennial International Festival of Performance Art, which runs October 21 – 31, 2010. […]
Year: 2010
Cafes
The evolution of Dundas off Ossington
It seems that the Ossington moratorium has benefited Dundas Street West, turning it into the new, new thing. The proliferation of galleries, bars, restaurants and more continues this fall with the opening of several spots between Crawford and Beaconsfield alone. […]
Business Profiles
Ossington Business Profile #9 – Telegramme Prints and Custom Framing
An Ossington Business Profile of the newly opened Telegramme Prints and Custom Framing […]
Festivals
Ossington to Participate in Printopolis
Thanks to all the art galleries on and around Ossington, a lot of cultural events in Toronto come to us. An example of this is the upcoming Printopolis, which is a symposium focused on international contemporary printmaking. Part of Printopolis, and the part open to the general public, is a series of exhibitions highlighting contemporary print media around Toronto. […]
Retail and Services
Macedo adapts to the neighbourhood – Wines and Organic Products
Only last year while you walked down Ossington on the west side just north of Queen in October you’d have to endure dodging past stacks of grape cartons and duck past the inevitable wasps and […]
Politics
Karlene Nation bring passion and small business focus to Ward 19 issues
Frustrated with antics of people like city councilor Paula Fletcher – outraged ex-communist party member, who has trouble telling yes from no on her voting machine – running things at city hall, Karlene Nation, an […]
Restaurants
Opening Soon: The Lakeview Storehouse
The Lakeview Restaurant next door, at 1132 Dundas St West, is opening a “Storehouse.” […]
Politics
Getting Local and Getting Involved using Blogs and Social Media
Most of the people that came to the debate last Tuesday knew more about the issues than many of the candidates on the stage.One of the reason people don’t get involved in the local politics is they don’t know what’s going on. […]
Real Estate Development
At least they didn’t call it HipsterVille
Where Hesco Electric, the wholesale electrical equipment company that left the Ossington strip about a year ago, was there is now a new sign for a condo development that is going in called Motif. […]
Photos
Pictures and Commentary from Tuesday’s Debate
We posted our Tuesday night’s debate on UStream here, but we also took some good pictures of the event, and there was some good coverage.
A few good people were following the debate on twitter and provided up-to-the-minute commentary on what was going on: […]