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Populist: May 19–25
We publish a lot of articles on Torontoist, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Populist is a weekly recap, appearing every Sunday night, that features some of the coolest, most interesting, most commented, and most recommended posts from our past week.
- David Topping featured some stunning time-lapse videos from photographers in Torontoist’s Flickr pool; covered the destruction of buildings to make way for a condo on the corner of Charles Street West and St. Thomas Street (and some impromptu fireworks from a building next door, a few days late for Victoria Day); wrote about Jonathan Goldsbie being blocked from an Astral open house; and wrote about Eye‘s new blog (which we’ll start reading the second they—sigh—get an RSS feed).
- Kevin Plummer wrote about the forgotten group in the battle over Toronto’s roads: pedestrians, just in time for the formation of the Toronto Cyclists Union (which Val Dodge wrote about earlier that week).
- Andrew Pulsifer wrote about a new coat of paint for telephone boxes in the Beach(es).
- Kevin Bracken proposed that Toronto get its tourism another way: naughtiness (this week’s most commented-on post).
- Anupa Mistry wrote about Bell’s new online video store, a conspicuous addition to its repertoire now that it’s throttling Bittorrent.
- Sarah Nicole Prickett deservedly skewered TORO; as she put it, “it’s TORO in typeface only.” Where will we learn how to be men now?
- Dory Carr-Harris (with photos from Miles Storey) checked out a magnificent Taiko drumming performance outside of some weird downtown building we’ve never seen before.
- John Beebe featured photos from the Toronto International Circus Festival.
- Readers’ favourite photo of the past week (by recommends) was Wednesday’s photo of a woman walking into the Rogers Centre, by rse75.
- In columns this week, there were new editions of Wild Toronto (the Chimney Swift—this week’s most recommended post), Historicist (Canadian Bank of Commerce Building), Vandalist (a man’s face done by the same artist whose woman is everywhere), Vintage Toronto Ads (Alton Lewis and chimps), Reel Toronto (Adventures in Babysitting), Tourist (Nevada and Dornie), Illustration Sunday (patios), Portrait Project (the Humane Society’s dogs).
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