Extra, Extra: Mario Boxes, Bloor Viaduct Bike Lanes, and Miley Cyrus Bombs

By David Topping

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

“Mario Planter Boxes” on Dundas Street West. Photo by Posterchild.

• The latest street art pieces by Vandalist curator Posterchild to pay homage to his (her?) beloved Mario videogames are “Mario Planter Boxes”—these things. Explains Posterchild: “I took them to this desolate wasteland of a parking lot…where pedestrians were apparently an afterthought….I thought that the rather sad little walkway could use some sprucing up!” Not everyone’s a fan, though.
• If you’d rather chuckle than cry about the G20, the Post‘s “Twelve (undeniably accurate) predictions for the G20 weekend” ought to do the trick.
• Blink and you’ll miss them, but the Bloor Viaduct’s bike lanes are now much improved.
• There is no clip of Miley Cyrus at Sunday’s MuchMusic Video Awards that is not hilarious, embarassing, or awful.
• And if there was ever any doubt, that tree with “Take That!” scrawled on it is definitely Banksy’s work (scroll far to the right). [via Robin Hatch]

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