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Making an ATM withdrawal is a mundane task, and one that doesn't differ much across the different banks or types of machines, but the Edward Day Gallery is aiming to shake up the experience by injecting a little art into every transaction.

Photo by David Topping.

No matter which generation you're from, chances are you have been influenced in one way or another by puppets. Lamb Chop, Elmo, Kermit, Casey & Finnegan, and even Ed the Sock have been huge puppet figures in popular culture. So why not relive your childhood and come on down to a puppet play this Saturday afternoon?

Reminder: this weekend (September 14–16) is the Queen West Art Crawl, or QWAC ("quack"), where the streets and parks of trendy West Queen West become galleries.

On Monday and Tuesday nights, the Toronto Public Space Committee will be holding its third Art Attack event. The first, in 2002, had people meet up at the Tranzac to make art and then tape it over outdoor advertisements in the Annex. Last summer, the art-making took place at the Gladstone Hotel and the ad-jamming occurred mostly in the West Queen West area (with one excursion to King and Strachan to hit the Monster Bin at that corner).

Another work from the West Queen West Department of anoNyMouS Awesomeness. Sometime between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on the last night of April, some fuzzy soul(s) pasted a swatch of green fun fur on the bus shelter bench in front of Woolfitt's, once again adding some love to the corner of Queen West and Abell. This isn't what they mean by the "Art and Design District", is it?

Like a beaten up, gunmetal grey spaceship, Jeremy Lynch's Containers has landed in West Queen West. If you're curious about where to find this quirky gem, the answer is after the jump; we wouldn't want to spoil the surprise!

Each weekday morning, we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

A conference about culture-led regeneration in Toronto headed up by independent non-profit real-estate developer Artscape took place yesterday at the Joseph Workman theatre at the Queen Street CAMH. In recent days, the unpopular OMB ruling to demolish the historic Abell Street building and its 80 live-work studios has crystallized the dire need to improve methods of city planning for many citizens. This has left many people asking, how do we go forward and make things good?

It doesn’t take long before the bubblegum beauty of Julian Calleros’s recent mixed-media portrait series, called The half of one self’s, gives way to a web of personal meaning. Adorned with patchwork, embroidery, bright pinks and reds, the portraits put some of the artist’s closest relationships on centre stage.

For less than 30 bucks, you can explore this hot new 'hood, and prove to your best boy and/or girl that you are hip and cultured - and those are things that can't be bought.

In due time, you'll be able to fold a map of city in half, with Yonge Street as the crease, and witness the more or less symmetry in Starbucks locations on Queen Street. One Starbucks is on Queen West in Beaconsfield, site of the infamous "Drake you ho this is all your fault" tag of last year. The other is planned for Queen East in Leslieville, home of the infamous commenter Joe Clark. More importantly, West Queen West (or whatever) and Leslieville may mirror each other in more ways than coffee chains - as condos, home renovations and, eventually, higher property values begin to appear.

You may find delays on Queen St West this morning. The streetcar is only just getting back to regular service after a five alarm fire raged near West Queen West. Firefighters don't suspect foul play, and no people were hurt. But the apparent centre of the blaze, a bakery, is badly damaged. And that is terrible.

The Weisblogger is back, with Paved.ca, a new city site that tackles political 'scrumble' - Pam Coburn's unconsumated yet career-destroying affair, reviews art by Allyson Mitchell, and informs us that Malcolm Gladwell had an easy time of getting accepted to U of T. Freshly-plugged in today's Star the blaugerista is open for business, but not in Parkdale, or West Queen West, where such fancy terminology is highly discouraged.

Wait a second...Isn't this a hip music venue that serves that nice fresh fruit salad? Yes to the music venue, and doubly so to the fresh fruit salad. But the Drake's hipster appeal is not the reason that there's a ginormous line every weekend - that's more so because of the luv-hungry 905ers go there to get lucky. Perhaps it's just the dichotomy between the Drake Underground (the aforementioned hip music venue) and the two upper levels, but the West Queen West establishment looks like it's become the new home to the most obvious and abhorrent pick-up moves in the city. ("You may remember me from the airport scene..."). We'd wish you good luck there tonight, but if you can get in, there's really not much luck needed.

As if! As if Torontoist readers didn't know that Rotate This is the best place to buy used cd's in the city. Anything that you can't find anywhere else will most likely be here, along with concert tickets and informed staff picks. Rotate This simply has all the makings of a great used record store, ie take all the attributes of your Sonic Booms and CD Replays and put them in one West Queen West locale. With an amazing stock of independent music and awe-inspiring bargain bin (Love As Laughter's first album for five bucks!), Rotate This is more or less a one-stop cd shopping experience.