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4:30 p.m. last Wednesday. Two teenage girls are exiting the northbound Dufferin bus in front of Dufferin Mall.

The City has chosen the winner for the Dufferin Jog public-art competition from the four candidates that we wrote about last week: Luis Jacob, whose unnerving tie-dyed mosaics will line the walls of the underpass and creep out local children as of around spring 2010.

The Dufferin Jog—that railway underpass at Dufferin and Queen—has long been considered a public art icon in Toronto. It's just that the public art it's displayed has been graffiti and paste-ups rather than municipally chosen sculpture.

It is entirely possible that in 6 months, the only building standing on the south side of Queen Street West between Abell Street and Dufferin Street will be Woolfitt's Art Supplies. For those of you not that familiar with the 'hood, that is roughly the distance from the Drake to the Gladstone on the other side of the street.

On the west side of Dufferin Street, just south of Bloor, is a Wal-Mart. It is (currently) the only one in the former City of Toronto.

Usually there isn't much that happens on a sleepy stretch of Centre Street, just north of the city in Thornhill. It's a pretty typical suburban stretch between the Promenade Mall and, well, not much else. But this week it's been hopping!

and is modeled after an annual Parisian festival that began in October of 2002 and has already spread to other cities such as Brussels, Rome, and Madrid.