Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'theex'
August 28, 2007
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. hanging around BY JAY MORRISON RELATED ON TORONTOIST: The Ex Is Coming, But So Are The Clowns, Vintage Toronto Ads: A Thousand Things to See for Everyone, Vintage Toronto Ads: Welcome Back CNE......
Continue Reading "The Daily Photoist: August 28, 2007"August 14, 2007
The Canadian National Exhibition opens this week, bringing with it nearly 130 years of tradition, from its beginnings as an industrial showcase to its current role as a signal that summer is drawing to a close. Today's pair of ads provide a glimpse of what the Ex was like on the cusp of World War II, before it was closed for wartime activities. The "new amusement area" touted in 1937 proved significant, as it......
Continue Reading "Vintage Toronto Ads: A Thousand Things to See for Everyone"August 10, 2007
Doo Doo the clown. If you're not afraid of clowns, you might know someone who is. Several celebrities, for instance, are decidedly anti-clown: Johnny Depp had nightmares of clowns as a kid, and, of course there's Bart Simpson, who said, "Can't sleep, clown will eat me." Clowns like Bozo and Ronald McDonald are, without a doubt, the "Oh, my God—that clown's kind of freaky!" clowns. And then there's the story of John Wayne Gacy,......
Continue Reading "The Ex Is Coming, But So Are The Clowns..."May 11, 2007
This week, the biggest news in movies is that Warner Bros. has decided to stop all advance promotional screenings of its films in Canada, in attempt to stem the flow of pirated movies from Canada. Yo ho ho! Unfortunately, they’ve likely decided that Canada is a hotbed of disgusting movie pirates on some pretty wonky data. Though apparently there’s no law against recording movies in a theatre onto a camcorder in Canada, which is kind......
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