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Newsstand: July 27, 2010
Illustration by Matt Daley/Torontoist.
Today: a chance to get to know your city, but not while driving under the influence; and Frank Gehry doesn’t care about his childhood home.
Feel like you don’t really know your own city? A new book can help. Writer-photographer pair Nadine Dolly and Kristie Macor took three years to create the Hogtown Project. It’s a two-hundred-and-ten-page coffee table book. Its aim is to help you city dwellers “discover a Toronto you never knew.” Replete with snapshots of local bars, clubs, shops, and some of the city’s “noteworthy” individuals, the Project will cost you fifty bucks.
Although we found out that drunk-ish drivers are being cut a bit of slack yesterday, young drivers are in for some new, hardcore drinking restrictions come Sunday. Thanks to the new rules, those twenty-one and under will not be allowed to have the slightest bit of a drink before getting behind the wheel. According to stats, those aged nineteen to twenty-one are more likely than older drivers to be involved in fatal crashes due to boozing. The legislation means an immediate twenty-four-hour license suspension, a fine of up to five hundred dollars, and a thirty-day suspension. The zero-tolerance rule also applies to anyone who hasn’t gotten their G2.
There’s Little Italy and Greektown; why not “Little Ethiopia?” That’s what Samuel Getachew has been asking the largest Business Improvement Association in the city for the last year. The Toronto resident would like to see four blocks on the Danforth between Greenwood Avenue and Monarch Park be designated as such. While he has some support and a petition with almost six hundred signatures, the Danforth-Mosaic BIA says it wouldn’t be fair to rebrand all the other multicultural businesses in the area.
We told you Frank Gehry’s childhood home would likely be demolished in yesterday’s Extra, Extra, but it turns out Gehry doesn’t really care. The renowned architect, whose boyhood home on Beverly Street is to be replaced by condos, said, “People should not hold up the future for anchors of the past.”
If you’re looking to take in a game, but happen to be a germaphobe, it’s still okay to do so in Toronto. An ESPN survey has found that the Rogers and Air Canada Centres get top notch grades for cleanliness in regards to food inspection. The website ranked more than one hundred stadiums and arenas across North America. Wrigley Field, among others in the States, had a perfect score.