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Extra, Extra: Crash, Trash, and Crystal Castles
Torontoist closes out each weekday with a quick collection of just about everything we think you ought to care about (or ought not miss)—say hi to Extra, Extra.
Photo by Peter Cheney, courtesy of the Globe and Mail.
- Globe and Mail automotive journalist Peter Cheney learned the hard way to never have children, ever, after his son Will piloted a $180,000 2010 Porsche 997 Turbo—which the elder Cheney was borrowing to write about—through the family’s garage door.
- This guy’s gonna dance in his underwear to Crystal Castles, okay? Don’t judge him.
- While our recycling bins can barely recycle, some of Edmonton’s can sing to you. You win, Edmonton.
- NOW wonders why all that data released by the City, which everyone was all excited about last year, hasn’t come to anything. Culprits: the City, which hasn’t released enough; and the media as well as tech nerds, who haven’t taken advantage of what has been released, or pushed hard enough for more.
- And the Star‘s blog, The Goods, checks on the progress of City Hall’s under-construction green roof, profiled back in October by us.
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