Extra, Extra: Bike Boxes, Star-Struck, and Ku Klux Can’t

By David Topping

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

Queen’s Park Crescent and Hoskin Avenue. Photo by Martin Reis.

• It’s not just scramble intersections: bike boxes have increased in number of late too, as expected. Joining Harbord and St. George’s are more at Hoskin and Queen’s Park, and Harbord and Spadina. Martin Reis snagged shots of all the new ones.
• In a recent caption, the Star mistakenly identified TTC union head Bob Kinnear as…Greg Kinnear. Hey, it happens. [via @Goldsbie]
• In the battle between Glenn Beck and Dinosaur Comics’ Ryan North, there can be no winners, except for Dinosaur Comics’ Ryan North.
• And here’s that super-racist, possibly hate-crime-y Halloween costume we’ve all been waiting for! Walking around wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit, accompanied by another man in blackface with a noose around his neck, sure outdoes this.

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