Painting telephone boxes may not be anything new, but that doesn’t make these any less awesome. Local high school artists from Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, Monarch Park, and Malvern Collegiate took part in a project fronted by the Beaches BIA to paint fourteen of the usually drab brown phone boxes, bringing a little sparkle of colour to the East Toronto neighbourhood. Odds are the high school students worked for free, so why......

Remember last week, when Marc Lostracco took a look at Astral's final street furniture prototypes and promised that "Torontoist's Jonathan Goldsbie will have a more in-depth analysis of the new street furniture next week"? Well, there's been a slight problem. On Wednesday night, Astral Media invited BIAs (Business Improvement Areas) to a sneak preview of the new furniture. Goldsbie—Street Furniture Campaign Coordinator of the Toronto Public Space Committee, and an open critic of Astral......

When we first got a tip from Andrew Hunter that "someone has installed a new type of bike post along Yonge north of Lawrence," we were concerned that it might be the vanguard of the Coordinated Street Furniture onslaught of mass-produced uniformity. When we went down (yes, down) to visit the area, however, we were quite relieved to discover not Kramer-designed brontosaurus ribs but elegant, artfully crafted flourishes of metallic whimsy. Inspired by a......