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Extra, Extra: Wear Helmets, Where Parking’s At, and Where’s Scott Pilgrim Been?
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Washington City Paper asks a good question, surely relevant here: what do their city’s cyclists have against helmets?
- Sure, it’s expensive to park in Toronto—but it’s unbelievably expensive to park in Calgary. The median cost of an unreserved parking spot there is $453.38 a month; here, it’s $336.25. (The national average is $224.10.) And that’s just the start.
- NOW‘s Ecoholic offers advice on how to tell stores with their air conditioning on and doors open to cool it.
- Just in time for the launch of the final book in the Scott Pilgrim series, Ben Spigel sends us his “Scott Pilgrim Map-O-Rama,” a ridiculously comprehensive Google Map of all the Toronto locations featured in the Bryan Lee O’Malley graphic novels.
- And worth a listen on the G20 front, Spacing Radio, the mag’s podcast, has spent the last week focusing on the summit.
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