This year’s Contact Photography Festival will be establishing ground in the East End, with shows set for the Great Escape Bookstore, Artisans At Work and Dylan Ellis Gallery on Danforth, and a large public installation at the Warden subway station. John Davidson and Stephen Gilligan will put on The Landscape and Other Bodies of Work […]
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70 years later, thrill of the Great Escape lives on
Maybe it’s in a museum now, but for a while Brian Floody’s father kept an old boot heel in the house, its underside carved by razor blade to mimic a Nazi rubber stamp. Maybe it once passed through the fingers of Jens Müller, a Norwegian pilot who trained in Canada, or Robert Buckham, a Toronto […]
Minor earthquake moves local poet
Not only does Kateri Lanthier’s first book of poetry get top shelf at the Great Escape Bookstore, last week a proud strip of masking tape on the front cover read, “Prize winning local poet!” Lanthier, who lives a short walk away from the Kingston Road bookshop, won the Walrus Poetry Prize in December. Reading “blind,” […]
