This week: rocks, stucco, and lynchings

• Bixi is getting bigger, as you surely know by now. The full details of the bike-sharing program’s move east and west finally got out earlier this week; here’s a map of all the new Bixi locations, and all the old ones being moved to expand the service’s boundaries. (If you’re an Annex or Distillery District resident, you’ve got reason to be happy.)
• Because The Grid’s city editor, Matthew Halliday, is on vacation for a week and a half, I am filling in for him and editing the weekly’s A section, which means I’ve been busy pitting Sue-Ann Levy against her long-time nemesis, as well as assigning and editing. I’m sorry, Matt.
• I went to the first in a new series of TTC customer service town halls, where the details of a likely 10¢ fare hike got out, where the “dynamic” of Scarborough was cited, and where a young black man advocated for a “public lynching.” Devon Soltendieck was there, as was the guy I talked down from fighting another guy at the last TTC town hall. As usual, I am honoured to be a thought leader.
• This, however, was somewhat embarrassing.
• Musa, the Dundas West café that all but burned down last year, won’t be coming back, but the building that’s taking Musa’s place is coming up really fast.
• This piece of graffiti, painted on some hoarding surrounding a King and Dufferin construction site, is one of my recent favourites—though I believe it’s gone since it was hurriedly painted there this summer.
• I ate part of a brownie, due to journalism.
• …and that’s it for 48 Abell, and hopes for a de-stucco’d Queen and Dovercourt Starbucks. Let’s continue to celebrate with bad poetry.