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The riotous Festival Of India parade on Yonge on July 14, a procession that originated in the city of Puri centuries ago, featured chariots and bedecked deities.


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HONEST ED’S HITS THE TRAIL

Pop! There goes another major landmark that says “This must be T.O.” The store with the glitzy Las Vegas signage, the slanted haunted-house floors, the kitschy collection of retro posters and paraphernalia, the turkey giveaways, the impossible pre-Walmart pricing and the shameless, hilarious self-promotion will be no more. Gosh, can’t people make money from retail anymore?

Photo by Michael Watier


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THE CITY MAKES A RACKET

Don’t think of noise as ear-splitting. Consider it a “concept.” That’s how the Noise Project sees things anyway. The exhibit, created by artists, designers and urban thinkers, stages a “messy, exploratory, active, urban, interdisciplinary art” happening on July 26 and 27 at 99 Gallery and in parts of the West Queen West Triangle. Look for installations, public interventions, sculpture, performance, video, photography and sound walks.


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SCORCHED CORNER

The fire over a grocery store at Broadview and Gerrard on Saturday, and the consequent demolition of the building for safety reasons, marks another loss in the frantic struggle to keep our history from evaporating. The 1906 structure wasn’t heritage-designated, but it was one of three at the intersection with rounded contours, a reminder of days past, when symmetry, scale and detail were considered essential. We shudder to think what will replace it.

Photo by Ellie Kirzner


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MEMORIAL TO DRUG WAR VICTIMS

The Board of Health went all courageous again on July 10 and endorsed the idea of a pilot safe injection site. It follows years of city dithering, and the concept may be destined for oblivion because of provincial disapproval. Serendipitously, the South Riverdale Community Health Centre’s COUNTERfit harm reduction folks are unveiling their Memorial To Drug Users on July 19. Besides celebrating east-end lives lived with horrific challenges, the bronze sculpture created by Rocky Dobey fingers the war on drugs and a system that criminalizes and marginalizes rather than sustaining and healing.


SKEPTICAL ON EGYPT

Usually we’re pretty juiced by masses of non-violent peeps protesting to change things up, but events in Egypt aren’t giving us that warm and fuzzy feeling. Human Rights Watch is tallying the rights affronts since Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow by the army, including the arbitrary detention of the former president and his advisers, the shuttering of pro-Morsi TV stations, raids on Al Jazeera Arab, and the rounding up of Muslim Brotherhood members with little transparency about charges or evidence. Amnesty International even disputes the charge that Morsi supporters triggered the violence that led to the killing of 51 by the army on July 9, instead accusing the military of “disproportionate” force. Not too inspiring, actually.

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