Extra, Extra: Fancy Dress, Strange Associates, and Borrowing Costs

By Steve Kupferman

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

Arcade Fire plays on the Toronto Islands in August 2010. Photo by Kath Fortes, from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

• If you want to attend Arcade Fire’s March 13 show at the ACC, you’d better have proper attire. The band is apparently going to impose a dress code on audiences during its upcoming North American tour.
• The Star‘s Christopher Hume has an argument in favour of the Mirvish/Gehry proposal for King Street West. But what about the heritage warehouses?
• Does Mayor Rob Ford know a single person without a history of drug involvement? It turns out that the man who is believed to be Ford’s new personal trainer was convicted in the U.S. for selling steroids.
• Also interesting: David Price, the mayor’s logistics director, no longer has a job at City Hall. Price, who was Ford’s high-school football coach and a close family friend, had famously vague job duties. He reportedly earned $130,000 a year.
• And in case this is all starting to seem like a harmless sideshow, consider this: Bloomberg reports that Ford’s scandals seem to be driving up the City’s borrowing costs.
• What’s the solution? Spacing‘s John Lorinc thinks we should take Doug Ford’s advice and hold an early election.

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