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Extra, Extra: The Hurricane, The Underground Cinema, and Graffiti

By • Photos by Dean Bradley

Every weekday’s end, we collect just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

  • Toronto often laments the fact that New York City does things bigger and more lavishly, but this is not one of those times. We didn’t feel the brunt of Hurricane Sandy last night, but high winds did wreak a modest amount of havoc throughout the city, not the least of which being widespread power outages and a senseless death. Above, some photos of some of the rest of the not-quite-devastation.

  • There was a time when Toronto did have a hurricane disaster to call its own, but it was more than half a century ago. The Toronto Dreams Project has a look back at the night Hurricane Hazel turned everyone’s home into lakefront property. (We did something similar last year.)
  • The Toronto Underground Cinema closed down last month, in large part thanks to financial missteps by its owner. Now it’s back on the market for more than twice what property records suggest that owner paid for the venue in 2008. Anyone want to buy a troubled movie theatre?
  • The City’s new graffiti panel meets on Friday to decide whether some murals are “art” or “graffiti vandalism.” Toronto Life, not content to leave such determinations up to civil servants, wants your opinion.

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  • expat

    What exactly was “senseless” about the storm-related death? That the sign wasn’t acting with purpose when it shed parts and struck her? That she was acting “senselessly” when walking on the street in the storm? I’m just a little unclear what you mean by that phrase, and none of the interpretations I can come up with seem to make much sense.

    • http://www.facebook.com/jpaterson1 James D Paterson

      Doesn’t “senseless death” usually refer to a death that shouldn’t have happened? If someone is killed by a drunk driver, their death is senseless.

      It’s a common phrase that doesn’t really need an explanation.

    • Winkee

      IT was senseless because the sign (according to many regular customers in most other coverage) was in a constant state of disrepair. And since it appears to be one of the few flying signs that caused damage or injury and was apparently preventable, one might not be remiss to call it senseless.

    • Anonymous

      It was a personal tragedy without sense or meaning. I don’t think the word “senseless” applies only to cases when a death results from carelessness or cruelty, though you’re right that it does tend to be used that way.