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Extra, Extra: Neighbours, Newlyweds, Bubbles, and Bummers
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
Good architecture makes good neighbours. Photo by Scott Norwsworthy from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- Throughout last week, the Toronto Star ran a rather wonderful series about what it means to be neighbours in Toronto. The articles are here, here, here, here, and here.
- Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics got married this weekend! Here’s how he proposed, the sap.
- In Spacing, John Lorinc writes about John Tory’s mayoral race flip-flop-ery, and what got the man who would be mayor there in the first place.
- You’d never guess which cop was among those on duty at a Friday press conference announcing a G20-related lawsuit. Yep: “Officer Bubbles,” né Adam Josephs.
- Eye‘s cover story last week—Ontario alcohol regulation and how it affects outdoor concerts and festivals—isn’t the sort of thing you’d expect would be a cover story, but “The beer-tent blues” is a great piece, and what else is Eye gonna put on the cover? Required Reading?
- If you like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, you’ll probably like these fake movie posters for films that Lucas Lee, one of Ramona Flowers’ ex-boyfriends, stars in. If you don’t like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, we’re really sorry about all of this.
- And Mayor Miller is totally going to eat this little kid.
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