Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
The Junction Arts Festival is back on Sept 9 to 13, 2009 of its 17th occasion in Toronto’s west end on Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue. The festival presents visual, musical, performance, new media and site-specific Continue reading A few Toronto Festivals in September: Junction Arts, Ukrainians, Poles and Movie Stars
Toronto Life has a piece on Dufflet Pasteries winning a gold for best confection at the 2009 Sofi Awards in New York (Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show). I became aware of this because they used (part of) Continue reading Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show, Ian takes the Photo
My jaw literally did drop when I realized that my home neighbourhood, west end Toronto’s Junction City, was the topic of a article in the NYT’s travel section in Skid Row to Hip in Toronto , not just as part Continue reading Toronto’s Junction in New York Times
A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed : T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source. The Continue reading Towards Building Toronto 2.0
During the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, I was in Los Angeles taking advantage of visiting friends before they returned to Japan. (thank you Hikaru & Mayuko!) It was a chance not only to hang out with them, but also see LA Continue reading a Week in LA
This was our first trip back in exactly 7 years, having been there in at this date in the days before that awful day. We have only just resumed traveling to the “States” again, a combination of things, including the Continue reading A brief Trip to NYC