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Extra, Extra: Summer Fun Edition
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- The above video, posted on the New York‘s Daily Intel blog, is one guy’s darkly humorous response to a $50 ticket from a NYC police officer, but it also demonstrates a frustration shared amongst many urban cyclists. Obstructed bike lanes are useless bike lanes—maybe more dangerous for cyclists than none at all. It happens in Toronto, too. Though, since we have much fewer kilometres of bike lanes than NYC, perhaps not as often.
- When the weather heats up, what’s even better than great local music? Free great local music. Paper Bag Records has put together a “summer sampler,” featuring tracks from a number of Toronto bands. It’s available for downloaded on the label’s Facebook page.
- What else does summer need? BBBQ. The extra “B” is for “best,” as in, what are the best BBQ joints in Toronto? Toronto Life has a piece on the increasing popularity of Southern-style barbecue in Toronto, and they list some good spots to try it out.
- James Ridyard is Colborne Lodge’s first artist in residence, and since January he’s been working on a series of paintings based on the lives of John George Howard, High Park founder and builder of Colborne Lodge, and his wife, Jemima. Read more about the project, and the exhibition of the work that opens tonight, here.
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