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The site of Igor Kenk’s old bicycle shop as it appeared in February 2010. Photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist.
- The site of Igor Kenk’s old bicycle shop is now home to a piggy churrasqueira called Inigo. May it fare better than the previous tenant.
- A good tip for those who want to show their support for the Urban Affairs library branch at Metro Hall: last week residents of Stony Stratford, England, faced with a similar closure of their local library, banded together and withdrew every single volume from the branch. That is some creative protesting right there.
- Also in the what-we-can-learn-from-others category: a survey examining “the capacity of cities around the world to attract and benefit from international populations” came out yesterday. London and New York were ranked first and second, respectively, with Toronto coming in a not-too-shabby third. (Let’s hope that ranking holds.)
- Metric has recorded a live album for iTunes—called, inspiringly, iTunes Session—and it is now online.
- And finally, congrats to local tech company FreshBooks, which just got a nice nod from the sure-to-generate-lots-of-traffic Huffington Post as creating one of the most underrated innovations of 2010.
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