This week: hexes, murals, and menches
In The Grid:
- The Grid’s year-end cover story is the fifty people who made Toronto better in 2011, but it’s you—you!—whose vote will decide the winner. (Ensuring you have your say in this defining moment of civic engagement is my department.) *
- Is the former home of Igor Kenk’s Bicycle Clinic—927 Queen West—cursed? No. But now that it’s just been sold again, maybe it is!?!?!? *
- Think the Cameron House’s new murals look cool? Wait’ll you see what the walls of the Queen West institution looked like in 1988, and 1996, and 2008, and…
- That map I made of where Toronto’s residents’ associations and neighbourhood groups are is lurching towards completion: there are now sixty-two on it, including the one I made, which it’s probably worth mentioning is not an advocacy group at this point—if it got to that, I’d probably hand it over to someone who wasn’t a journalist.
…and that’s all from me this year, I think? Here’s to another one.
(* means an article or a version of it appeared in The Grid in print; otherwise, it was online-exclusive.)
