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Extra, Extra: Fun Archival Movies, and a Bad Day for the Biebs
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
Building and rebuilding Regent Park—back in the 1950s, and again today. Photo by Metrix X from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- Archival discovery of the day: Toronto: Boom Town! is a ten-minute documentary from 1951, all about our great and growing city. It includes everything from gentle mocking of too-quiet Sundays to footage of Regent Heights getting built—the first time around.
- William Shatner is hosting the Genies. Many jokes are sure to follow, possibly not all of them made by Shatner himself.
- The Big Bop like you’ve never seen it before. (Which is to say, totally empty and waiting to become a “condo-targeting offshoot of American housewares store Crate and Barrel.”)
- Stuff we do not care about at all but which apparently has some people all worked up: Justin Bieber said some dumb things, and William and Kate clearly hate us.
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