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Extra, Extra: What’s in the ‘Box and What’s out Your Window
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- It seems, according to a few surveys conducted by TIFF and the Toronto Star, about half of Torontonians are unaware of the TIFF Bell Lighbox’s existence. And of the people who have heard of it, only some know that it shows movies year-round. And we, who really love the Lightbox, think that’s a shame.
- Sorry, Will and Kate fans who are also the kind of people who would consume alcohol in the early morning—we’re sure there are many of you—but you’re going to have to do your pre-breakfast drinking at home. Toronto police and the AGCO didn’t like an idea from Councillor Sarah Doucette (Ward 13, Parkdale-High Park) to allow bars to open at 6 a.m. on April 29 in honour of the royal wedding, and so she withdrew it.
- Back in January, we told you about Out My Window an interactive NFB documentary about high-rise living. Now, the project is expanding to include Participate, a site that asks people to submit photos of the view out their windows, and accompanying stories, to a Flickr group.
- Your somewhat-heavy weekend read, care of Yonge Street, asks whether inclusionary zoning—if the City actually had the authority to require that developers follow it—would be a solution for Toronto’s affordable-housing woes. Unsurprisingly, the developers quoted in the piece don’t think so.
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