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501 Poem: Conditional
Damian Rogers Special to the Star This is the letter where I explain how you are a unit of composition. In a dream, we are riding the Queen car. It feels like Friday night, passengers sealed in the...
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At Bay: Arcadian Court
Arcadian Court in its heyday, in the late 1940s. The facility will undergo three months of renovations before reopening next spring as a venue for special events such as weddings, banquets and fashion...
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At Yonge: The Great Divide
Last-minute shoppers at Yonge and Queen St., Christmas Eve, 1924. TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO Antonia Zerbisias Feature Writer Across The Great Divide, just grab your hat, and take that ride/Get yourself...
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At Kingston: Greenwood Off Track Wagering
Oakland Ross Feature Writer They race horses, don't they? As a matter of fact, they do. Just not here — or not anymore. Here is a hulking, brick-walled edifice that still dominates the corner of Queen...
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At Leslie: The Duke
At the corner of Queen St. E. and Leslie, Sweet Daddy Siki has several dozen devoted fans belting out Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Blondie and Roy Orbison to his well-stocked karaoke machine. AARON...
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The music of the 501
Jim Rankin Staff Reporter Before he made a name for himself — before he worked with Céline Dion, Sarah Brightman, Josh Groban and Gladys Knight and came up with an Olympic theme song — Stephan Moccio...
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The unseen Gladstone
The Gladstone is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Toronto — purchased in 1889. TARA WALTON/TORONTO STAR Kate Allen Staff Reporter Roomy enough to accommodate a gentlewoman's bustle, etched...
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At Parliament: Cinema Ras
John Goddard Staff Reporter The variety store Cinema Ras takes its name from a movie house near a vast open-air Ethiopian market in Addis Ababa. To walk through the store — all the way to the back —...
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Streetcar knitters spin a good yarn
Carola Vyhnak Urban Affairs Reporter Amid the chaos of frazzled commuters, cellphone chatter and log-jammed traffic, Kate Atherley is the picture of serenity. With the quiet clickety-click of her...
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At River: The Queen Street Bridge
Antonia Zerbisias Feature Writer "Oh look, the clock is working again," exclaims Eldon Garnet, clearly pleased. He's the Toronto artist whose enigmatic three-part work flows along Queen St. E.,...
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