Reader Cy Goldsbie sent us the above photos, taken at St. Clair West station, along with the following note: These aren't the greatest pictures, but I think they're clear enough. The hand-written sign is one of two on the same wall just above the duct tape sign. I think I've discovered a new font that even Joe Clark doesn't know about. Of the font mixture of which he spoke, 'Duct-Tape' was never mentioned. As......

Autumn is upon us, and with it the fall leaf colours that epitomize the season. It is said that the dry summer will dull the foliage this year, but that's no excuse to stay indoors. Elliott Katz's book, Great Country Walks Around Toronto, is packed with hikes of varying lengths in all areas of the city. One of the walks follows the Cedarvale Ravine. This easy 2.5 km walk over paved and packed-dirt trails......

The Baldwin Steps, the set of stairs at Davenport and Spadina Roads that leads up to Casa Loma, are so recognizable that they've warranted their own Wikipedia article and feature as a battle backdrop in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Depending on the time of day and season, the Baldwin Steps––also called the Casa Loma Steps, or The Death Climb At The End of Spadina––can be romantic, creepy, trying, or picturesque. Now a group of......

In order to help raise funds for their excellent Toronto Upstairs exhibition (on now, until October 25), Art @ Liberty and the Side Space Gallery on St. Clair West invite you to eat your words. This coming Saturday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m., experience Baroque Poems For a Postmodern Age and Edible Poetry. Fill your belly with all that the title implies, and free finger foods, besides. John Picchione of York University will be on......

Amidst the swirl of sensationalism surrounding the death of a "caretaker" at the Brentwood home of actor Ving Rhames last week, many Torontonians were unaware that the victim, 40-year-old Jacob Adams, was a local actor and screenwriter. "If hard work was enough to make it in Hollywood, then Jacob should have been a superstar," says friend and acting colleague Janice Edwards. "My last Jacob sighting was just outside Albert's on St. Clair West. He was......

Garrison Creek once ran through Toronto from its tributaries near what is now St. Clair West, to what was once the shore of Lake Ontario, past the northeast side of Fort York. Development polluted the creek as Toronto began to grow, and in the early 1900s, work began on the burial of Garrison Creek. Long since converted into a sewer, Garrison Creek has completely disappeared from view. It has not, however, been forgotten. Evidence......

The St. Clair West neighbourhood has had some conflict-filled times over the past few years. Who can forget the St. Clair streetcar ROW debacle, during which there were calls to boycott the beleaguered community? We think that it’s time to forgive and forget, and how better to do that than with a sultry summer samba party? Salsa on St. Clair emerged two years ago to stake its own claim on the city’s busy summer......

Photo by Hamish Grant. Customer loyalty is a hard thing for a company to get, but once they've got it, it takes a hell of a lot of bad work to lose. With Amato Pizza, I was one of the people who happily ate from the pizza place in spite of the protests against it in 2005, when employees organized outside the St. Clair West location in mid-winter to protest $82,000 in alleged overtime......

Toronto student Soohyun Park took top prize at the CanSpell Cup nashional spelling bee. Her corect spelling of 'hypobulia' trumped 'cerumen' and 'moiety'. A Virginia Tech student gunned down 33 of his classmates yesterday, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Shortly after 3:00 a.m., a three alarm fire gutted a house at Spadina and Baldwin, between College and Dundas. One southbound lane on Spadina is closed to traffic, but the streetcar is running......

Last Thursday's 20th Anniversary bash for Artscape was a who's-who of Toronto arts philanthropy: the guest list boasted big names from around the city like Councillors Joe Mihevc and Gord Perks, Toronto Arts Council Executive Director Claire Hopkinson, Poet Laureate Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, and more. It was an evening of being seen, sampling a whirlwind of savoury hors d'oeuvres and trading congratulatory speeches with some of Toronto's most influential arts personalities. Artscape can......

At Bathurst and St. Clair West, the abandoned Wychwood TTC streetcar repair barns are soon to be revitalized, and the provincial government is investing $3 million in the project. The Green Art Barns will be a community arts and environmental centre with studios, a gallery, a greenhouse and workspace for local not-for-profit groups. Go take a look at the old carhouse before it's all fixed up, as it is highly photogenic. The new archbishop......

Hallowe’en is cool. For one night each year, the dead return to walk the earth with the living, like a George Romero film with candy. We all have our own way of celebrating Halloween, whether it’s scarfing down bags of tiny Snickers bars, petty vandalism against pumpkins, or a drunken encounter with a costumed weirdo at a party. However, there are much more ancient traditions out there, and people who still observe them. Hallowe’en has......

The Diamond Cherry Reading Series – run by local poets and small-press publishers Devon Gallant and Julie Cameron Gray – kicks-off the week with performances by audio poet Hilary Peach (Poems Only Dogs Can Hear) and singer/songwriter/poet Nik Beat. The series takes place each month at the Zemra Lounge – 778 St. Clair West – and starts at 8pm. It’s free, too, so you have no excuse not to go. On Monday, head down to......

Day 43 of the 69-day TTC Station project, at St. Clair West Station. Photos throughout the project, including those not featured on Torontoist, will be available in the 69 Photoset on Flickr.......

Jam packed day today! Torontoist Daily Agenda June 6, 2006 8am - Hearty breakfast at Country Style Donuts (666 Millwood) 9am - Pick up flooring samples from Armstrong Floor Service (666 Spadina Avenue) 10am - Appointment with lawyer Chartered Accountant: Spiegel & Associates (666 Wilson Avenue) 12pm - Lunch with Keyes at Korea House (666 Bloor West) 1pm - Appointment for film work at Accent Entertainment (666 Queen West) 2pm - Coffee with Grassi at......

Some cram for exams and stay up all night drinking Red Bull writing essays. Art school kids have to get their stuff together and do thesis shows. Like Memoranda, the U of T Fine Arts thesis show opening tommorow night 8 pm at 30 St. Clair West (running until the 15th). There's also Descry, the Ryerson Image Arts student show at the Steamwhistle gallery until the end of the month. We'll keep our ear to......

A middle-aged couple sits in at the Regal Heights Bistro on St. Clair West. Woman: SimpleText. Man: SimpleText? Woman: SimpleText. Man: No. Don't think I've seen that on the computer.......

Torontoist visited XXXtra Vision at St. Clair West and Vaughan for the first time and had the best retail experience EVER. In the past, we'd avoided the place because of their garish bastardization of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting. In XXXtra Vision's mural version, Wood's subjects (a father and daughter) are transformed from homesteading all-American couple to a cheap 80's lingerie model and Viagra man. But the store itself was bright, well-organized, and categorized......

"This project is absolutely not dead. Rumours of it being dead are grossly exaggerated," says TTC commissioner Joe Mihevc of the recently-halted Streetcar reno plan. Work on the $65 mil project was already messily underway, and now it's not clear what will happen. Regardless of what the ruling was based on, the appeal process will take months, a development Mayor BoomBoom calls "unfortunate." "The tall imperfect Mayor" has been having a lot of bad luck......

If they weren't construction workers, they could be cast as construction workers in the upcoming Torontoist biopic (simply entitled "Torontoist"). Overheard on St Clair West, around the breakfast hour, here's what the two men said: Construction Worker A: What're ya getting for breakfast? Construction Worker B: I don't know. Something cheap. Like for a couple dollars...ya know? Construction Worker A: Bro, that's why there should be a Buckfast around here. Construction Worker B: Huh? Construction......