Spacing contributor Jessica Duffin Wolfe (aka vforvandal) captured the above video at Ossington station during a late-night mid-December snowstorm. It's difficult to think of a better possible respite from the sleet; every station should have one of these.......

Ok, so we're starting to get the message that we need to act on this whole "we're killing the planet" thing, and fast. But amongst all the noise about how much trouble we've gotten ourselves into, it's sometimes hard to hear the solutions and see the positive ideas. Enter GreenTOpia, the third installment in Coach House Books' uTOpia series, which is being released at a party this weekend into our eagerly outstretched arms. As we......

Sunday afternoon is the Toronto Public Space Committee's third annual Human River Walk, a trek along the course of the buried Garrison Creek, from Christie Pits to Fort York in a parade of blue, symbolically bringing the river back above ground for one beautiful afternoon. Along the route, there will be music, performances, and stories about the history of the creek, the neighbourhoods, the trees, and Toronto's stormy relationship with its water. But, above......

One more piece of bad news for Jane Pitfield's campaign: besides having one of the worst glamour shots we've ever seen on her media page (see above), whoever's writing her blog for her is cribbing Spacing Votes, Spacing Magazine's election blog. Details are a bit scarce, but what we know for sure so far is that for several days a recent entry on Jane Pitfield's blog copied one of John Lorinc's - almost word......

Yesterday we wrote about the destruction of the Inn on the Park, a Modernist landmark that will probably be missed in 20 or 30 years when architectural historians are looking for good examples of Modernism in this city and notice that everything has been torn down. The Star's Christopher Hume was upset about how council dragged its feet on issuing the permit that would've saved the building. There's general discontent on the Urban Toronto forum.......

That's the question that Broken Pencil asks in its latest issue, which they're launching tonight, 7pm at the Toronto Free Gallery. The launch will also include a panel discussion on this very same question with art critic RM Vaughan, Shawn Micallef, Photo blogger Matt O'Sullivan and Brenda Goldstein. Goldstein, coincidentally, or not so coincidentally is also the curator of the Centre Cannot Hold show currently running at Toronto Free Gallery.......

Wednesday, March 15th brings the launch of [murmur] at Hart House. [murmur] currently exists in several places, including Toronto's Kensington Market and along Spadina Avenue. It is an audio archival project made up of signs of big green ears. You call the number on the ear with your cell phone to hear a story that took place in the exact spot you're standing. Details: [murmur] at Hart House Launch March 15, 2006 at 6pm Debates......

Ok, the headline is a little misleading. Spacing isn't being turned into a blockbuster Hollywood film. We think the magazine would be better suited as a Canadian indie production that becomes a sleeper hit, and wonder who'd play Shawn Micallef and Matt Blackett?. But Torontoist digresses. The Spacing Magazine crew is actually putting on Public Space Invaders, a night of short films about the streets, alleyways, parks and squares we call home. Doors start......

Look a panel/debate that's not about the election. With all the talk about 2005-06 being Toronto's year of culture Hart House's Creative City panel discussion is still very timely. The Hart House Art Committee has got two Toronto visual arts heavyweights with art empress of Queen West Katherine Mulherin and AGO director Matthew Teitebaum on the panel and maintains street cred by asking Murmur's man about town Shawn Micallef to also throw his two cents......