Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'automotivebuilding'
October 18, 2007
There's no arguing it: sex is everywhere. It's on tv, it's walking down the street, it's how each and every one of us came into existance. You might love it, you might hate it, but no matter what your thoughts on fornication, there's bound to be something for you at the Everything to Do With Sex Show. Now in its eighth year, the ETDWSS promotes itself as a non-threatening consumer affair. This year it features......
Continue Reading "Everything To Do With The Everything To Do With Sex Show"September 28, 2007
This weekend, the Ex is once again hosting Toronto's popular Clothing Show, the retail sales event offering "the unique, the unusual, and the handcrafted" to the citizenry. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, this event has been taking in greater numbers over the years because of its talented pool of local designers. And though there's an increasing amount of lazily silk-screened American Apparel T-shirts being touted as "alternative" fashion, it's still the best place to get......
Continue Reading "The Clothing Show: Skip H&M This Season"April 30, 2007
Exhibition Place has presented many new technologies since it was established in 1904, but a new pilot project outside the Automotive Building is using 40-year-old technology to lessen Toronto's energy impact: LED streetlights. Actually, the age of the technology is only partially true. It's only recently that LEDs have been able to display a full spectrum of colour, initially limited to a dull red or green glow from electronic devices or indicator lamps. Newish white......
Continue Reading "Getting The LED Out"February 14, 2007
When the half of the moon not illuminated by the sun faces the Earth, the moon is dubbed a "new moon." The Lunar New Year -- more commonly known as the Chinese New Year -- is on the first New Moon of the Gregorian calendar. In 2007, Lunar New Year's Day is on February 18, the first day of year 4705 according to the ancient Chinese calendar. It will also be the year of the......
Continue Reading "It's the Year of the Pig, Charlie Brown"May 5, 2006
It must have been the thrall of consumerism that prevented Torontoist from shouting from the rooftops sooner, to tell all new Spring fashion seekers and thrifty consumers that it is once again that time to congregrate upon the grounds of the Automotive Building at Exhibition Place for this season's installment of The Clothing Show. Taking place this weekend from 11am to 8pm on Saturday and 11am to 6pm on Sunday, the show will feature......
Continue Reading "Be sure to take an extra bag with you..."March 24, 2005
Although there's still snow underfoot, it's definitely spring down at the CNE Automotive Building during the One of A Kind Spring Show & Sale, which runs through Easter Monday. While there are gourmet, art and furniture categories, fashion is the star at the spring installment. A sneak peek this morning yielded Torontoist's OOAK pick of the day: indie micro-label Fauna [Booth O36] by Montreal's Alexis Walker, who features purses, totes and clutches sewn from bright,......
Continue Reading "Spring Shopping Fling"