This week: Moriyamas, Big Bops, and Colle’s note

In The Grid:

• The Toronto Reference Library, brick behemoth that it is, almost looked totally different. Go gawk at the building that might have been and what the thing looks like now that it’s got a new glass cube in front of it, but maybe grab a copy of The Grid in print this week to see the full-double-page spread the way it oughta be seen.*
• Toronto might be the greatest music city in the world; Rob Ford and the New York Times might both agree; and everyone loves to love Feist, Fucked Up, and Austra—but how many records do Toronto’s most-loved bands actually sell in Toronto?
• If only all harbingers of gentrification looked as fucking terrific as the thing that’s replacing the Big Bop, right? And yes, I have been paying attention.*
• Want to see what Toronto city councillor Josh Colle’s motion that reversed $15 million in cuts of Rob Ford’s contested budget actually looked like? Here you go, nerd. Also, this is probably an appropriate place to mention that if you’re not following me on Twitter, you are really missing out.

Elsewhere:

• Hey, look, a new, and slightly improved map of all of Toronto’s residents’ associations and neighbourhood groups! Here’s why it’s slightly improved.



(* means an article or a version of it appeared in The Grid in print; otherwise, it was online-exclusive.)