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Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal
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Kensington Market is the cozy heart of bohemian Toronto. For years it was known as "The Jewish Market," and while the neighbourhood still has a Jewish presence, it's now a microcosm of multicultural Toronto as many successive waves of immigrants have made the Market their first stop in Canada. The European-style mix of shops, new and old, along with restaurants and bars, is a streetscape unparalleled in North America. Framed by College Street to the north and Dundas on the south, the Market anchors the neighbourhoods that extend along those two corridors. Though the Italian population is no longer the dominant population, College is Toronto's "Little Italy" and for a few kilometers is a continuous mix of restaurants, bars and shops. Just to the south, Dundas represents the Portuguese and Brazilian communities with a similar mix, as well as an increasing amount of art galleries.
Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal Features
Startup congregation: Makom aims to enrich downtown Toronto Jewish life and culture
Corey Mintz
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Makom wants to restore Kensington Market's robust Jewish culture with their participatory congregation. They hold services in members homes, artist studios and, guided by Jane Jacobs' adage that "new ideas need old buildings," in the historic Kiever synagogue.
Seeing Double Double -- keeping Toronto's lo-fi art scene growing
Nadja Sayej
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Double Double Land in Kensington Market blurs the lines between art gallery, event venue, community hub and soon enough, international artist residency. How one second-floor studio apartment changed the face of the Toronto art scene, one Pay-What-You-Can event at a time.
Planet Traveller digs its way into a low carbon economy
Joseph Wilson
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
A mile of pipe zig-zags under College Street in order to transfer heat from the Earth into the rooms of "the greenest hotel in North America." For general contractor Anthony Aarts, an innovative project like this is the build of a lifetime.
Play leads to innovation at Toronto Hacklab
Ivor Tossell
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Part workshop, part tree house, and part revolutionary lair, the Toronto Hacklab is a home for geeks that mixes the urge to create with the ideals of a venerable movement. Also, there's a laser in the bathroom that plays the theme from Super Mario Brothers.
Q&A with Lubo Brezina: Breathing new life into old growth
Paul Gallant
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Furniture-maker Lubo Brezina is busy turning other people's junk into functional art and furniture on Dundas West.
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