Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'mississauga'
April 22, 2008
Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It's our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. port credit BY KATE Y-N......
Continue Reading "The Daily Photoist: April 22, 2008"March 12, 2008
Seriously? Photo by sevennine from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.......
Continue Reading ""Christianity under-represented in public schools, Peel trustee says""January 5, 2008
Kincardine-born, Mississauga-bred, Toronto-based, and Berlin-bound, Joel Gibb is the musical and managerial head of The Hidden Cameras, the fantastic and always well-populated music collective whose members have included Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Reg Vermue (Gentlemen Reg), Laura Barrett, Maggie MacDonald (Republic of Safety), Dave Meslin (founder of the Toronto Public Space Committee), Bob Wiseman, Steve Kado (founder of Blocks Recording Club, member of Barcelona Pavilion and Ninja High School), Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say......
Continue Reading "Tall Poppy Interview: Joel Gibb"December 26, 2007
Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset. When Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion decided to sound off about the federal government's lack of funding for municipalities this......
Continue Reading "Hero: Hazel McCallion"December 5, 2007
Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Mississauga scores a little slice of cinema history in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. From lame futuristic thrillers to Oscar-nominated period......
Continue Reading "Reel Toronto: Toronto Sings!"August 10, 2007
Good news for our Mississauguaguaguanian readers: UTM, as part of its fourtieth anniversary, is hosting "Flicks on the Field," two free family-friendly outdoor movies shown on a big screen with (and it's good that they note this as far as outdoor screenings go) "professional projection and sound." Hopefully no one in the audience will hold it against them that the traditional gift for fourtieth anniversaries is rubies, not film screenings. Both "Flicks" screenings will......
Continue Reading "Two Nights At UTM"August 3, 2006
New York-based Project for Public Spaces e-mailed a bulletin to its subscribers today singing praise for, among other places, Toronto's suburbs. The theme of this month's e-mail is recognition of a new breed of civic activists, noting that the way communities improve themselves throughout North America has changed. PPS emphasizes the importance of they people they dub, "zealous nuts" to the planning process, asserting that concerned citizens are leading the way to positive, radical,......
Continue Reading "In Praise of Zealous Nuts"