Archive for category: Leslieville

The Free City of Leslieville

Jimmie Simpson stairs    (2010.09.10)

Comments on TTC LRV design competition    (2010.08.23)

TC is holding a “competition” to landscape the surrounds of the giant new streetcar house on the fringes of Leslieville. And here’s my submission. (Spoiler: There’s only one winner and the panel has to have the guts to say so)

Not the Hell’s    (2008.10.30)

Why were the cops following me to my photo shoot? (Were they?)

Not Fort Book    (2008.05.25)

Concrete Toronto.

Beautiful, isn’t it?

McChristo    (2008.02.16)

Actually just the replacement McDonald’s at the Gerrard Scare.

Garish    (2007.12.02)

Maple Cottage Vintage Sale    (2007.11.24)

So fantastically dull I didn’t bother going in.

Apparently Lisa Rochon was there. She parked her Smart right on the sidewalk. (The architecture critictrix for the Globe, Rochon was given dispensation to sit in Maple Cottage and write a book two winters ago. She’s regularly recognized and fawned over down in the Beaches. Of all the columnists in all the daily papers, Lisa Rochon most epitomizes the outdated expression “she’s not all that.”)

‘No to Big Box’ meeting    (2007.09.21)

Latest meeting on rezoning of the 19-acre lands at 629 Eastern Ave., Leslieville