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For Torontonians of a certain age, the name Johnny Lombardi is as iconic as Sam the Record Man or Honest Ed. But for more recent arrivals to the city or tourists who don't know his backstory, the grinning statue of Lombardi sitting on a garden bench at College and Grace can seem a little mysterious. Other than a placard thanking sponsors for the erection of this statue and a quotation etched into the stone, there's nothing that actually explains the deep significance Lombardi holds for the neighbourhood and city. That'll finally change this Friday (at 7 p.m.) when a Heritage Toronto plaque honouring Toronto's pioneer promoter of cultural diversity is added to Piazza Johnny Lombardi.

For the forty-sixth year, St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church brought together the community of Little Italy with a procession marking Good Friday. Torontoist was there, capturing some of the faces of the neighbourhood event.

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets.

The post-holiday cleanup slowly continues across the city. Tree collection winds down this week, decorated lightposts grow patchier, and leftover sugar cookies are available for deep discounts alongside remaining Halloween candy.

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets.

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Photo by Cari Miller What are we doing at Bayview & Eglinton? It’s a fair enough question to ponder. After all, there’s not...

Eat Me is a regular feature about the nooks and crannies of Toronto's restaurant scene, about the amazing restaurants that are––for some reason––criminally underpatronized. It's pretty easy to find sushi places in this city. From the Bloor Street strip to North York, sushi places range from suspiciously cheap to ridiculously expensive, from having incredibly creative culinary creations to the same old rolls. Quietly tucked on the east edge of Little Italy is Jun Jun Sushi...

So, what’s scarier: a zombie infestation or the melting of the polar ice caps? This is an urgent and legitimate question! And later this week, Toronto cineastes can compare and contrast, for just as the After Dark Festival winds down, the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival springs up. Running from October 24 to 28, Planet in Focus is the most acclaimed film festival of its environmentally-minded ilk. This year, to coincide with the International Polar Year (which 2007 is, as you are doubtlessly already aware), the festival’s Spotlight Program is entitled Polar Visions. (Hint: these visions may include the melting of large volumes of ice.)

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Photo by gbalogh from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Previously on A City Intersected, we visited Front Street East & Jarvis Street, one of...

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Photo by Metrix X from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. A short walk east of Union Station will take you to one of Toronto’s...

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Photo by funkaoshi from Flickr. On the southwest edge of Trinity-Bellwoods Park lies the quiet intersection of Queen St. West & Crawford St....

Do you wistfully dream of having a little corner of the city to call your own, but balk at the "Homes" section of the classifieds with its hyperbole-strewn ads and dead-eyed realtors? A new Google Maps-based website, housing123.com, tries to make things a little easier for potential home buyers across the GTA.

Ask Torontonians for an example of Toronto food and you will have an array of different answers. One astute response may be that Toronto specializes in having everything and having it available at your doorstep.

Whether you associate the myriad back alleys that criss-cross Toronto with crime and filth or art and beauty, Graeme Parry's laneway tours are sure to be a treat.

Photo by neuroticjose from Flickr. Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Every summer, a 2.5 kilometre stretch of Danforth Avenue is packed with people for Krinos’ annual Taste...

Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. People who live in the Annex are the envy of just about everyone in Toronto with a culture addiction. And why wouldn’t...

Photo by MonkeyfacedRatfink from Flickr. Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. College Street is more often celebrated, but Little Italy has got nothing on Corso Italia. If you...

Photo by kuzan 3 from Flickr. Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Those who live downtown generally stay downtown, but Avenue Road and Eglinton Avenue West is well-situated...

Toronto graffiti artist Toivo (Finnish for "hope") has painted an eponymous rainbow around town for the past two years. Her optimistic messages span the downtown, but are most easily located on cement tree planters in The Annex and Little Italy. You’ll also find them in the quietest of laneways.

Photo by Gary Campbell. Toronto has been called a city of neighbourhoods: The Beach, Yorkville, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, The Annex; all have their defining characteristics that make them appealing to locals as well as visitors. And when it comes down to it, most of these areas are well-defined by the intersection of two major streets. Beginning a new column focused on these intersections with Yonge St. and Bloor St. may seem like an...

Amidst the car horns and national flags in Little Italy yesterday evening, a long line-up formed in front of The Royal for its would-be last film, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” . The screening was supposed to start at 9pm but it wasn’t until 9:30pm that the thank-yous to the staff began and one of the current owners confirmed that the theatre will be reborn sometime in the future. As an extra treat, the projectionist showed a Three Stooges short before finally playing the opening overture to Kubrick’s film. Sometime around midnight, the theatre shut its doors for the last time, albeit temporarily.

Big news on the municipal election front. Former mayor John Sewell wants back into the concrete clamshell. He's running in Ward 21 against Miller ally Joe Mihevc. Sewell has the support of Margaret Smith and many from the Save Our St. Clair campaign that lobbied against the right-of-way.

Toronto desperately NEEDS another MEGA advertising campaign. Thanks to GO Mobile Media, our fine city can be overjoyed to have its “first mobile advertising vehicle and program exclusively designed to promote the city’s most popular tourist attractions and summer destinations.” The ‘GO TO’ campaign which began on May 1 features “a revolutionary new mobile advertising vehicle that will utilize a fully illuminated scrolling billboard system to display ads from the best events, venues and entertainment attractions Toronto has to offer.” Wow! What a sick and twisted way to promote tourism in Toronto! If that’s not bad enough, there’s the ‘GO Exclusive’ program which offers companies with the opportunity to use the vehicles for their own sick and twisted advertising campaigns.

The best Chinese cuisine exists outside Chinatown. The best Italian can be found in Woodbridge, a few municipalities away from Little Italy. So why would anyone believe Greektown, or more specifically the strip along the Danforth with the dense number of Greek restaurants, has the best Greek food?

Absolutely nothing on television last Saturday. At least not this one. Found along a back alley in Little Italy.

Guest photographer 'Glark' sends us this lovely photo, his favourite and saddest, of a Little Italian out for justice. "It is from a parking alley behind Montrose in Little Italy. I found it while wandering where I had no business wandering."

Looks like Gavin's missing again. Or did he run away? These esoteric signs, obviously meant to reach Gavin, could have a number of meanings. We considered even leaving the phone contact on this post, but decided against it. (We don't know, maybe Gavin is a psychopath? Or maybe he's a singer-songwriter in the band Bush? Better safe than sorry.) There are so many possibilities with this signage, seen in the area around Little Italy, Torontoist and his trusty roommate decided to run through a few scenarios:

If you ask us, the City of Toronto's new slogan and logo looks like it's advertising a new cellphone company. But they don't pay us the big bucks to draw up these tourist-magnetizing feats of graphic wonderment, so we'll let the quirky little graphic alone. We will, however, quibble with the worthiness of taking out a two-page TO Unlimited spread in yesterday's Times, and filling it with the most awful copy one can muster up about our fair burg. To wit:

The crowds and wares of Chinatown make it impossible to get from point A to B without stopping. Cheap luggage, authentic food and a general sense of urgency typify this neighborhood.

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Tucked away on College Street – just before you hit the cluster of restaurants in Toronto’s trendy Little Italy district – is Pony Bistro.  While Pony would normally be outside of Torontoist’s budget (wait, do we even have a budget?), we recently took advantage of the City’s Winterlicious campaign, and found ourselves in this warm and romantic spot.