Extra, Extra: Tapas, Rappas, and Wrist-Slappas

By David Topping

Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.

Nassau and Augusta, in February of this year. Photo by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist.

• There was no Starbucks sneak attack in Kensington Market, as El Barrio has finally opened at the once-contested corner of Nassau and Augusta. Two years ago, the Market rallied against a proposed Starbucks, but then a new realtor took over the place, and now that’s the end of that.
• For his one minute of allotted time at Tuesday’s Better Ballots–organized mayoral candidate, Howard Gomberg, who is seventy-one years old, rapped. The Star—they call it a “poem,” god bless ’em—has a full transcript.
• How many maps do you want of the CCTV cameras installed downtown for the G20 summit? Here are three: the Post‘s, Star‘s, and OpenFile’s.
• And @rebelmayor—you may know him better as the twittering reincarnation of William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto’s long-dead first mayor—somehow got BlogTO to issue a correction after the site unreservedly asserted that Himy Syed was behind the account (believe us, he’s not!). Now, though, @rebelmayor is threatening Torontoist’s Miles Storey with legal action instead, after Storey made a #G20FakeRumour about him. Storey is playing it safe.

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