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Torontoist Week in Review: July 6-10
A lot happens in the course of a workweek. Here’s a look back at the top stories from the past five days that you might have missed, or might care to revisit.
It Takes a Village… from Giordano Ciampini on Vimeo.
The 2015 Pan Am Games are officially underway! To celebrate, we toured the West Don Land’s new Athletes’ Village.
From the article:
It’s easy to simultaneously feel impressed and cynical while wandering the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletes’ Village. Impressed by the transformation of industrial land into what will hopefully become a thriving new neighbourhood. Cynical about elements of the presentation over 10,000 participants will experience, and why we rely on such events to speed up local improvements.
As the Toronto District School Board struggles financially, the use of mixed-use schools becomes a real possibility.
From the article:
Toronto could see more schools in condos and commercial buildings, as the financially struggling Toronto District School Board studies the implications of using more mixed-use buildings to match the growth patterns of a rapidly evolving city.
Photo taken from An Entourage All-Female Live Read Facebook page
With the new Entourage film out in theatres, the now-defunct HBO bro-medy is making a reappearance in the social conversation. We talked to local writer and filmmaker, Chandler Levack, on her newest endeavour, An Entourage All-Female Live Read.
From the article:
Series creator Doug Ellin once stated, “Entourage works because it’s about male friendship,” but local writer and filmmaker, Chandler Levack, disagrees that the presence of men is the key to a script’s success. To prove it, she’s put together an all-female Entourage live reading. The showing, set for this Thursday at Bad Dog Theatre, sold out days in advance.
Courtesy of Brian Boyle/The ROM
Rawr! Five years after its discovery, the Royal Ontario Museum has announced the details of one of the oldest horned-face dinosaurs.
From the article:
The Royal Ontario Museum has announced the official name and details about a newly discovered dinosaur — one of the oldest known members of the horned-face dinosaur family Ceratopsidae. The Wendiceratops pinhornensis, which lived 79 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period, would have been roughly the size of a small rhinoceros, but with incredible ornamentation on its skull.
Photo by Jeremy Gilbert
A collaboration between the City and a local urban-agricultural group may see four market gardens in Toronto Hydro’s corridors.
From the article:
Some of Toronto’s hydro corridors could be yielding fruit and vegetable crops in time for next year’s harvest as a fresh pilot project plants roots.
Plans for four market gardens–a cross between a farmer’s market and a community garden–are sprouting through a collaborative effort between the City and Toronto Urban Growers, a local urban-agriculture group.